Exactly. And it really stinks when governments sell out and let them die out even under emergency situations.

British Columbia’s Last Spotted Owl

Canadian cabinet ministers have rejected a plea by the country’s environment minister to save an endangered owl, casting doubt on the species’ survival in the coming years.

"How is the fact there is only one wild-born spotted owl left in Canada not the definition of an emergency?” said Wilderness Committee Protected Areas Campaigner Joe Foy. “Minister Guilbeault found in January there was an imminent threat to the owl’s recovery due to the B.C. government’s logging authorizations, and yet B.C. has continued unabated logging of the owl’s home throughout the spring and summer. How does the federal cabinet just say ‘no problem’ to that?”

And in the US, from NPS

Because of its role as an indicator species for forest ecosystems, the northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) has become one of the best-studied owls in the world. It has been listed as a threatened species since 1990, and populations continue to decline rangewide as a result of habitat loss. Competition with other non-native species such as the larger, more aggressive barred owl (Strix varia) has become the other greatest threat to the species.

Spotted owls do not build their own nests. Instead, they rely on tree cavities or broken tree tops, abandoned raptor nests, and accumulated debris. While these nesting materials are all commonly found in the mature trees of old growth forests, this habitat has been heavily affected by clear-cut logging in the Pacific Northwest. Although the protected forests in Marin County are not as widely threatened by logging, they are under continual pressure from urban development, intense recreational use, and habitat change from diseases such as Sudden Oak Death.

Many owl species are at risk but there is a very long battle between Spotted Owls specifically and the timber industry going back decades, so there is a lot of documentation about them.

There’s hate merch and everything going back near 40 years.

Guardian: All I See are Ghosts

The silence of the woods is familiar for the veteran biologist. For nearly three decades, Hobbs has watched the collapse of the species. He has tagged and tracked dozens of young owls who represented the hope of recovery. He has fed them mice in a futile effort to stave off death. His truck tyres have been slashed and the remains of a murdered spotted owl was once left on a tree stump as a threat.

“When I drive the highways and backroads here in their former range, all I see are ghosts,” he says. “The owls we’ve lost, I know their stories. And those stories are gone.”