Burns Bog is home to over 200 species of birds, including the Great Blue Heron, the Lower Mainland's largest population of Bald Eagles and the threatened Greater Sandhill Crane. Thousands of waterfowl, including the Trumpeter Swan and other migratory birds, use the ponds in the Bog as seasonal feeding grounds. Burns Bog is home to up to 22 species of raptors. Burns Bog offers the opportunity to see living organisms and the physical environment acting together to produce a self-sustaining ecosystem, a superorganism. The importance of Burns Bog for these biota is increased by the general absence of such habitat in the surrounding area.
Habitat loss is the greatest threat to the conservation of wild species.
Human population growth in the Georgia Basin has already resulted in a dramatic loss of habitat of a variety of species. The conservation of this area is important to the quality of life of species here in Canada, including our own.