Canada’s woodland caribou herds and the habitat they need continue to decline five years after the provinces agreed to develop strategies to preserve them, a federal study has concluded. The report, released Tuesday, found that none of Canada’s 51 caribou herds is growing. Last October, a five-year deadline passed for provinces to file detailed plans on how they were going to restore critical habitat. Wilkinson said the federal government and the provinces agree all 51 herds can still be preserved, although that could change. “The scientific evidence is very clear, that habitat destruction is directly related to the decline in caribou,” he said.

Source: National Post October 31, 2017 16:03 UTC