The Victoria Harbour Migratory Bird Sanctuary, the first of its kind in the Victoria area, marks its 100th anniversary. The region has undergone significant changes since its establishment, with increased urbanization and a decline in bird populations. The sanctuary was created to protect migrating species, such as the brant goose, from commercial hunting.
The region has changed considerably since the federal government established the Victoria Harbour Migratory Bird Sanctuary — first migratory bird sanctuary in the Victoria area — 100 years ago.
As such, the bird presented a low-cost alternative for Christmas dinner, and commercial hunting to meet the seasonal goose-meat demand took a toll. Today, only a few brant spend the colder months on B.C.’s coast — and almost none on the south Island. Four years later, the federal government established another two similar sanctuaries in the region — Shoal Harbour Migratory Bird Sanctuary in North Saanich and Sidney in April 1931 and Esquimalt Lagoon Migratory Bird Sanctuary in Colwood in December 1931.
Laws implementing the convention in Canada in 1917 protected migrating birds — the pretty ones, the boring-looking ones, the tasty ones, the big ones, the tiny ones and so on — as well as their eggs and nests for the birds’ nutritional, social, cultural, spiritual, ecological, economic and esthetic value.
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