The government of the Northwest Territories was fined $10,000 after it plead guilty in N.W.T. Department of Infrastructure destroyed multiple bank swallow nests off Highway 3. The population of bank swallows has plummeted 98 per cent over the past 40 years, qualifying them as a threatened species that are protected by law. When the biologist returned in June, the pile had been levelled, the nests destroyed and no bank swallows were observed to be present. Bank swallows nest between mid-April and late August.

Source: CBC News February 19, 2021 01:26 UTC