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Vancouver Island has expirienced some of the largest urban growths in the last decade then ever before and marmot habitat has been virtualy destroyed. Also, golden eagles present a problem as they naturaly eat marmots and marmot numbers are dropping too fast, therefore the eagles eat more and more marmots, contributing to the over all species destruction.

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