Several First Nations and Indigenous groups have asked the federal government to step in and protect some endangered caribou herds on provincial land in Alberta. Alberta and six other provinces continue to fail to meet a federal deadline to release recovery plans for threatened herds in their jurisdictions. The 2012 federal document that contained the deadline the provinces have now missed was itself five years late. A 2015 federal assessment found 81 per cent of Canada's 51 woodland caribou populations are declining. Federal guidelines say two-thirds of habitat on critical caribou range should be undisturbed.

Source: CBC News November 28, 2017 14:37 UTC