Harmful exploitation of nature is what kills
caribou
The main reason for caribou population declines has been well-known and reported by scientists for decades. It is logging and destruction of their primary habitat, which continues to this day. However, the provincial governments continue to authorize the destruction of known high value caribou habitat. Clear-cut logging, oil and gas infrastructure, and the creation of new roads can also exacerbate predation rates.
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Despite decades of recommendations from scientists, BC continues to allow extensive logging in areas important for caribou survival, while Alberta does the same with oil and gas infrastructure. Mineral exploration and mining also contribute to increasing habitat impoverishment for caribou and myriad other species.
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When caribou habitat is fragmented by roads, clear-cuts and seismic lines, they lose important food resources, become fragmented into smaller groups, and become more exposed to predators that they evolved to avoid and hide from. Historically, caribou also avoid and other cervids (members of the deer family) by spacing out to avoid transfer of disease and parasites, and predators.
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Instead of ending the destruction of caribou habitat, BC and AB contract helicopters with sharp-shooters to gun down wolves.
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​Conservation groups point out that killing wolves, cougars and other species, creates a public distraction from what is needed most for caribou recovery, which is maintaining large and unfragmented tracts of old forest.​
How long this unjust 'predator reduction' program will continue is unknown.
Check out the scientific publication:
Maintaining ethical standards during conservation crises.
Empower
nature's
rights
by standing up
for
old-growth
forest protection.
For caribou.
for wolves.
For planet.
for future generations.
