Last summer I was out riding through the pastures with my daughter and we came across a painted turtle. I'd never seen one in my pasture before. I actually went back to the house and checked it on the Internet. The western painted turtle is quite abundant, but it is listed as a species at risk or of interest in British Columbia. Would B.C. have made that decision?
We're talking about range and whether or not certain species are worth protecting, especially if it's just a sub-species. The painted turtle is abundant across Canada, but within British Columbia it's a species of interest. I'm pretty sure it was actually on a federal website that I saw that. I just wanted to get comments on whether that is the case, or maybe it was a British Columbia decision.