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Several years ago, headline news broke out that people involved with the Vancouver Island marmot recovery project were bait-killing Golden eagles. Dr. Andrew "Mr. Marmot" Bryant, immediately went on record expressing shock and outrage that this had happened without his knowledge. Apparently, nobody on Bryant's team had bothered to tell the chief scientist that his own project was killing Golden eagles.

Instead, -so the story goes- Doug  Janz, then chair of the Marmot Recovery Team, had sneaked around behind Mr. Marmot's back and destroyed a number of these magnificent birds, all in the name of 'protecting' Vancouver Island's final marmots -Canada's most endangered species. Later Janz took the fall for the killings, which made front page headlines across Canada and shocked and horrified people around the world.

 

Read more: Unanswered Questions about the BC governments Golden Eagle Slaughter