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The golden masked owl’s primary habitat is lowland or coniferous forests on the island of New Britain. Their habitat plays a key role in the survival of their species, and habitat loss has caused their conservation status to fall to “vulnerable.” Their current habitat range is roughly 63,000 square kilometers, but their population is trending downward. While not explicitly endangered, being labeled as a vulnerable species is still within the broader category of being “globally threatened”. Habitat loss in the case of the golden masked owls can be directly attributed to deforestation on New Britain island, this deforestation is a product of large-scale infrastructure projects, agricultural expansion, and commercial logging. The status of forests in New Britain and neighboring New Ireland have since been labeled as “critical/endangered” by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)