A project started last year to capture wildlife in some of B.C.’s parks has taken an exciting turn with the closure of those parks to humans during the novel coronavirus pandemic.
In one case, researchers spotted a very rare skunk species not often seen around Vancouver. “The spotted skunk is restricted to sort of this this area in southwestern B.C.
and in Washington state,” Cole Burton, assistant professor and Canada Research Chair in Terrestrial Mammal Conservation at the University of British Columbia and the Faculty of Forestry told Global News. “And we don’t really have good information on it.
We think it might be a threatened species, but there’s there’s very little information on it.” “So to get pictures of that species on our