Despite their appearance or their usefulness to mankind it is extremely important to maintain all the parts of the web. Eventually, you're without a home. Most of our wildlife species are doing extremely well. Mild winters and extensive forest cutting have contributed to the highest deer population the province has ever seen. There are more bald eagles nesting here than in most of north-east North America because of the abundance of good feeding areas and good nesting sites.
Cormorant populations are high because of the good food and nesting sites they find here.
Nova Scotia has good habitat for all of them. Despite these pluses we have some animals with low populations that we should still be concerned about. Endangered means it is threatened with immediate extinction or extirpation throughout all or significant portions of its range, owing to the actions of man. The Atlantic whitefish is the most rare, found nowhere else in the world than Millipsigate Lake and the headwaters of the Petite Riviere and Yarmouth Harbour. In the past, its numbers have been greatly reduced by hydro-electric dams and heavy fishing pressure.