Vancouver Island COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 10

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Existing Protection or Other Status Designations

In April 1978 M. vancouverensis was assessed as endangered by COSEWIC (Shank 1999). That status was reconfirmed in April 1997 and in May 2000, the latter assessment based on applying quantitative criteria to the 1997 report. The species is in Schedule 1 of the Species at Risk Act (SARA). The Vancouver Island marmot is also listed as endangered under the B.C. Wildlife Act (1980) (Munro et al. 1985) and under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (Federal Register, Jan. 23 1984). The International Union for the Conservation of Nature also lists the species as “endangered” (Groombridge and Mace 1994).