Welcome to the Okanagan Region - Gov
The Okanagan Region is a region full of fresh water lakes, rolling hills, grasslands, mountains, forests and Canada's only desert. Home to a variety of species including several species listed as endangered or threatened by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC), the region extends from the United States border ...
Ministry of Environment - Okanagan Region - Gov
The Okanagan is not only noted for the diversity and uniqueness of its plant and animal species, it is also the region with the most endangered, threatened and rare species in the province.
Ministry of Environment - Okanagan Region - Gov
What Makes the Okanagan a Special Area? The South Okanagan and Lower Similkameen has long been recognized as a region that combines a tremendous diversity of habitats with unique species, many of which are found nowhere else in the province or in Canada.
Wildlife Viewing in the Okanagan Region - Gov
The Okanagan Region, especially the South Okanagan area, contains a variety of unique habitats, many of them threatened on a Canada-wide scale. These habitats are critical to a variety of wildlife and fish species, often limited to this Region.
Ministry of Environment - Okanagan Region - Red and Blue List
Drastic population declines; extirpated in S. Okanagan: Sandhill Crane Grus canadensis: Wetlands: Marshes: Small breeding population extirpated in S. Okanagan: American Avocet Recurvirostra americana: Wetlands: Alkali ponds: Small, localized breeding population (does not breed in S. Okanagan) Long-billed Curlew Numenius americanus: Grasslands
Ministry of Environment - Okanagan Region - Species Profiles - Gov
The atlas profiles thirty-two Red- and Blue-listed species and their habitats in the South Okanagan and Lower Similkameen valleys. Recent advances in computer generated mapping, such as Geographic Information Systems, have made it possible to model habitat use patterns of …
Ministry of Environment - Okanagan Region - Gov
The South Okanagan Valley is a special place in Canada. Its hot, dry summers, mild winters, beautiful lakes and bountiful agricultural lands make it an ideal place for human settlement.
Ministry of Environment - Okanagan Region - Gov
One of the most critically endangered plant communities in Canada is the Antelope-brush grassland found mainly on the east side of the Okanagan Valley north to Skaha Lake. Less than 40 percent of this habitat now remains in the South Okanagan.
Ministry of Environment - Okanagan Region - Gopher Snake
Extensive land development in the Okanagan has eliminated or fragmented their habitat (including dens and feeding grounds). Dens are particularly susceptible to human development; snakes may not relocate to other areas if dens are destroyed, and …
Okanagan Region - Preserve Ecosystem Corridors - Gov
The Okanagan is a critical biological highway to the British Columbia central interior. Originally, the whole of the valley could serve this purpose but the corridor is difficult to maintain with current urban and agricultural land use patterns divided between …