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Freshwater ecosystems in B.C. are under threat from invasive species and parasites, but the government has scaled back its funding to fight the problem, according to the BC Wildlife Federation.
The conservation organization is calling on both provincial and federal governments to increase spending to combat invasive zebra and quagga mussels, and a new threat, a parasite that carries whirling disease. |