Etiket: Caribou
François Legault refuses to participate in a federal scientific report on the protection of caribou
The Legault government refused to participate in a federal scientific report which takes stock of efforts made across Canada to protect the woodland caribou, citing the absence of an agreement…
Ottawa refused to adopt a decree to protect caribou in Quebec in 2023
Faced with the lack of protection of woodland caribou habitat in Quebec, the federal Minister of the Environment, Steven Guilbeault, recommended in 2023 that the Trudeau government impose it by…
Caribou sentenced to “decades” of captivity
Quebec has been so slow to act to protect the declining populations of woodland caribou that some of them are today condemned, at best, to “decades” of captivity, and this…
Former Minister of Wildlife claims responsibility for caribou protection measures
Former Minister of Wildlife Pierre Dufour had proposed specific measures in 2021 to protect the mountain caribou of Gaspésie, he revealed on Wednesday. His intention was to table a “block”…
Protection of forest and mountain caribou | Quebec gives birth to a partial plan
Quebec will set up “pilot projects” aimed at protecting the forest caribou of Charlevoix and the mountain caribou of the Gaspésie, relegating to later the adoption of protection measures for…
More than half of Gaspésie caribou placed in captivity
In an unprecedented move, the Quebec Ministry of the Environment captured and placed in temporary captivity half of the Gaspésie caribou, a population that has been in major decline for…
Quebec wants to maintain industrial activities in caribou habitats
In the absence of the strategy expected for five years to try to avoid the disappearance of the woodland caribou, the Legault government announces a “consultation” on measures supposed to…
Protection of caribou in Quebec | “Regional projects” rather than a national strategy
Quebec announces the upcoming creation of “regional projects” to protect the forest caribou of Charlevoix and the mountain caribou of Gaspésie, relegating to later its strategy for protecting other caribou…
The Legault government will announce elements of its woodland caribou protection strategy
After years of waiting and several postponements, the Legault government should finally announce elements of its woodland caribou protection strategy shortly. Efforts should initially focus on populations on the verge…
Ottawa must “fund part” of the caribou strategy, says Quebec
The Quebec government is not committed to submitting its caribou protection strategy within federal deadlines, but still expects Ottawa to partially finance it. This is what Quebec Minister of the…
How to save the caribou? | The duty
This week, there was tension in the air between the governments of Quebec and Canada. For what ? It is linked to caribou, an endangered species. We’ll summarize the situation…
Benoit Charette is “confident” of meeting Ottawa’s caribou deadlines
Faced with a new ultimatum of Ottawa to save the forest and mountain caribou, the Quebec Minister of the Environment, Benoit Charette, says he is “confident” of finally being able…
Steven Guilbeault calls for a caribou protection strategy in Quebec by May 1
Concerned by the “extremely precarious situation” of the woodland caribou and the absence of a plan to rescue this endangered species in Quebec, the federal Minister of the Environment, Steven…
Caribou protection | Quebec must present a plan by May 1, threatens Ottawa
Ottawa serves an ultimatum to Quebec and tells the Legault government to present “no later than 1er May » its caribou protection and recovery strategy, otherwise the federal government could…
Operation to capture female caribou in Gaspésie
This text is taken from Courrier de la planete. Click here to subscribe. Despite a first failure last year, the Quebec Ministry of the Environment has just carried out a…
Charette cannot give a “precise timetable” on the caribou protection plan
Quebec Environment Minister Benoit Charette cannot say if his plan for protecting caribou habitat will be presented before the next forest fire season. But while in Gaspésie there are only…
Steven Guilbeault once again urges Quebec to act to protect the caribou
Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault is once again pressing Quebec to present its plan to protect caribou habitat, several years after promising a strategy to save the declining population. While…
Protection of caribou in Quebec | “Something will have to happen soon,” says Steven Guilbeault
The constantly postponed submission by Quebec of its caribou protection strategy is causing impatience in Ottawa, which is once again threatening to intervene unilaterally to protect the habitat of this…
The recreational tourism sector in Gaspésie is impatient with the delays in adopting the strategy for the protection of forest and mountain caribou
The recreational tourism community of Haute-Gaspésie is mobilizing to press the government to submit its strategy for the protection of forest and mountain caribou, which has been overdue since 2019.…
“Atikᵘ, guardian of the territory”: what if caribou became the ghosts of the forest?
The predicted extinction of the woodland caribou will also cause the disappearance of a central milestone in the culture of the Innu, who maintain an ancestral relationship with this emblematic…