Federal Appeal Court grants pause of B.C. ostrich cull pending review

Ashley Joannou · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 20, 2025 5:48 PM EDT | Last Updated: 35 minutes ago

The Federal Court of Appeal has granted a enactment that pauses the imaginable cull of astir 400 ostriches astatine a B.C. farm. 

Court records amusement that a question to intermission plans for the cull, pending an appeal, was granted Friday day successful Ottawa. 

The owners of Universal Ostrich Farm successful Edgewood, B.C., person been warring an bid from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to cull their flock aft it was deed with an avian flu outbreak past year.

Katie Pasitney, whose parent co-owns the farm, thanked supporters successful a station connected societal media, saying the "next signifier of the battle" volition let the workplace to propulsion guardant for change.

The plight of the ostriches has brought planetary attraction to the farm, with protesters staying connected the spot to forestall the cull and activists decrying what they telephone authorities overreach.

The nutrient inspection bureau has said the benignant of avian flu corruption contiguous astatine the workplace is simply a mutation not seen elsewhere successful Canada.