Efforts to protect the once endangered Newfoundland pine marten have been successful – so many recent estimates of the population show that now its endangered status can be reduced to vulnerable again.
The Newfoundland pine marten, which has been protected since 1934, is a subspecies of the American pine marten. It is one of 14 species of terrestrial mammals native to Newfoundland.
The latest results of the COSEWIC assessment show that the animal is doing well and it will be recommended that the species be included in the list of endangered species.
Senior Wildlife Research Manager at the Department of Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture, Shelley Moores says, when serious action was taken to conserve the habitat of the species’ old growth and changes were made in the loops – all from residents to trappers and even forestry and mining companies boarded.
That, Moores says, seems to have made a real difference.
“Everyone was involved in restoring that species,” she said. A recommendation will be made this fall that could lead to a further decline in Newfoundland pine martens as vulnerable. Then she says she will have to keep working to continue to improve marten populations.
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