OTTAWA — Satellite imagery proves a much lauded agreement between Canada’s logging industry and environmental groups to protect boreal caribou habitat was a failure, says a U.S. environment group. The moratorium was to last for three years, during which time negotiations for permanent protection for caribou habitat were to be completed. Seventy-five per cent of caribou habitat in Quebec falls north of that boundary, said Lindsay. The organization represented 18 of the 19 companies which signed the Boreal Forest Agreement. Even if climate change is part of the cause for harm to the caribou, logging operations should still be restricted to protect the habitat as well, he said.

Source: National Post August 09, 2017 18:33 UTC