YELLOWKNIFE — Ottawa and the Northwest Territories have reached a deal on protecting threatened caribou. But one environmental group calls so-called Section 11 agreements — draft versions of which have been reached with other provinces — plans to keep planning. made an agreement that the territory would file range plans to conserve several herds of boreal caribou, which live in forested regions along the territory’s western edge. “That’s why we’re doing this right now, so we don’t get to that point.”Ottawa has agreed to give the territory $4.5 million to develop range plans, as well as determine sustainable harvest limits. Legislation allows the federal minister to impose protection plans.

Source: National Post March 13, 2019 19:18 UTC