 As of now, BC Wildlife Park has the largest burrowing owl breeding facility in North America.Prior to 1980, British Columbia's burrowing owl population had almost been extirpated from the grassland areas of the Thompson-Okanagan region.To prevent the species from going extinct in the British Columbia grasslands, the BC Wildlife Park participated in the British Columbia Burrowing Owl Recovery Program in 1990, with the construction of its first breeding facility.