The emergency protection order grew out of a 2012 court case brought by several environmental groups to force the federal government to live up to its Species At Risk legislation.
Greater sage grouse, once prolific on the Canadian prairies, have been considered federally endangered for decades. Existing populations in Alberta and Saskatchewan have continued to wane. The greater sage grouse, which once numbered in the thousands in Western Canada, is coming perilously close to vanishing from the Prairies, new government research shows.
Sage grouse once numbered in the thousands in Canada, if not the hundreds of thousands, with a sweeping range of 100,000 square kilometres. In southern Saskatchewan's Grasslands National Park, only 24 males were spotted during the 2023 spring count at the only remaining leks in the province. Males, with the dappled brown feathers of their starburst tails on full display, gather at leks and begin their dances at sunrise — strutting, posing and thrusting their beaks.
Each spring, endangered sage grouse males gather on 'leks,' performing grounds where they hope to dazzle females with their display and other-worldly mating call. In an effort to halt further destruction of sage grouse habitat, the protection order imposed strict restrictions on provincial and Crown lands where the birds are found.Boyce said the order was critical, but more must be done to preserve the few viable sagebrush habitats that remain.
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