For Immediate Release, November 2, 2009 Contact: Noah Greenwald,
(503) 484-7495 Protection Proposed for Queen Charlotte Goshawk
in Canada, But Not Alaska JUNEAU, Alaska— In response to a
petition and multiple lawsuits brought by the Center for
Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today
proposed to protect the Queen Charlotte goshawk as an endangered
species under the Endangered Species Act in Canada, including
Vancouver Island, the Queen Charlotte Islands, and a portion of
mainland British Columbia, but continued to refuse to protect
the species in Alaska. The goshawk is threatened by logging in
the old-growth forests it calls home. “The Queen Charlotte
goshawk should have been protected in both Canada and Alaska,”
said Noah Greenwald, endangered species director for the Center
for Biological Diversity. “Whether it’s Canada or Alaska,
logging of old-growth forests threatens the goshawk.” The Center
for Biological Diversity first petitioned for protection of the
Queen Charlotte goshawk in 1