![]() ![]() Two enterprising entomologists tracked down a rare Audouin's Night-stalking Tiger beetle that vanished from Victoria’s seaside bluffs 90 years ago. Although the local population in Victoria is at risk of extirpation, globally the species has come back from the brink of extinction. ![]() Young northern elephant seals on the beach at Ano Nuevo State Park in California in Apri, 2020. That local population is red-listed by the province as it is at risk of extirpation, although globally the species has come back from the brink of extinction – a rare recovery story. The sole breeding colony of northern elephant seals in Canada is a few kilometres away at Race Rocks, just off the coast of Greater Victoria. With her mottled fur, she blended in with sun-bleached logs washed up on the sand, and it was only a lazy movement of her flipper that gave her location away. I was there on an early morning in May, and as I strolled along the water’s edge, I almost missed another, rather larger at-risk species: a northern elephant seal hauled out on the beach. I was hunting for it as part of my mission to see some of Canada’s critically imperilled species, and when I finally located one, poking out of the sand, it was easy to understand how beachgoers could unknowingly trample it out of existence. ![]() Searching for the contorted-pod evening-primrose, I crawled along a sandbar at Witty’s Lagoon, careful not to accidentally crush this wee yellow flower with red stems. ![]()
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