Residents have taken a stand against Nakusp and Area Community Forest (NACFOR), a local logging company’s decision to log an area of forest which is part of the habitat for the western toad.
They have set up an information camp at the bottom of NACFOR's logging road.
The toads are currently on British Columbia’s Yellow List, which means species and ecological communities are secure, but populations in the area are suspected to be in decline.
“It’s very, very distressing. This is a small community, we all know each other, and it’s a terrible thing to ask them to turn the NACFOR people back, it’s very upsetting and disturbing for us,” said Janet Spicer. “No one should think we have a sense of glee, it’s quite the reverse, but these little creatures, they’re so fragile, they’re so vulnerable.”