‘Sitting on our hands is not an option’: Alberta releases another draft plan to save threatened caribou

By Zoe Todd
CBC News
December 19, 2017
Category: Forestry
Region: Canada, Canada West

Shannon Phillips

Alberta on Tuesday released another draft of its overdue and federally mandated plan to protect threatened woodland caribou in the province. The 212-page document includes a timeline for public engagement, as well as proposed strategies to restore herds and habitat. The provincial government has committed to spending more than $85 million over five years to protect the species. There are 15 caribou herds in Alberta. All but four of the herds are dwindling in numbers, according to research from the province. …”We will go back and forth several times with the federal government,” Alberta Environment Minister Shannon Phillips told CBC News Tuesday. “It is up to them, at the end of the day, to determine adequacy because the whole reason we have to file these plans is to fulfil obligations around the Species at Risk Act.”

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