Sentences with phrase «caribou habitat»

One manifestation of this is the AER's setting of the goal of no net loss of caribou habitat in the relevant range.

Despite claims of responsible and sustainable tar sands development, the Alberta government continues to sell new petroleum and natural gas leases in five threatened caribou range areas — including the tar sands region — despite unacceptably high industrial disturbance of caribou habitat in those areas.

The Alberta government has not, however, made any commitment to no net loss as a goal for caribou habitat on a project by project basis.

«Climate change in Alaska means we're going to see more fires and while that's good for moose, it's really bad for caribou,» said Hundertmark, «because it's going to burn lichen beds that can take at least 50 years to recover and reduce viable caribou habitat.»

The scientists, part of a team headed by researchers at Laval University in Quebec, used climate reconstructions from 21,000 years ago to the present to predict where caribou habitat would likely exist and they matched reservoirs of high genetic diversity to areas with the most stable habitat over time.

Bolstered by the success of their retrospective analysis the scientists forecast caribou habitat to the year 2080 using a «business - as - usual» climate model — the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's A1B model.

See conditions 57 to 59, which require Enbridge to conduct a pre-construction assessment of caribou habitat impacted by the project and conditions 51 and 191, which require Enbridge to prepare a construction phase and operations phase marine mammal protection plan.

The goal or outcome of the plan is to ensure that there is, at a minimum, no net loss of caribou habitat from the project in the West Side Athabasca Range.

The Plan merely calls on forestry companies operating in caribou ranges to prepare spatial harvest sequences within their Forest Management Plans to meet caribou habitat requirements, and states that Alberta Forestry may impose additional terms and conditions into harvesting plans and operating ground rules (at pp 49 - 52).

«Climate change will endanger caribou habitat, study says.»

The Alberta Wilderness Association (AWA) has called on the Alberta government to cease new surface leasing and new disturbance permits in Alberta caribou ranges and to make good on its promises to maintain and restore caribou habitat.

«If Alberta is sincere about responsible energy development, the provincial government should defer new leasing and disturbance until enough caribou habitat can be restored to recover the populations.»

According to the Pembina Institute, a Canadian non-profit think tank that advances clean energy solutions, «95 % of woodland caribou habitat in northeastern Alberta is to be lost in order to promote oil sands development.»

The team predicts that viable caribou habitat will shift north, the southernmost herds will disappear and herds in northeastern North America will become more threatened with extinction, losing up to 89 % of their current habitat.

The scientists, part of a team headed by researchers at Laval University in Quebec, used climate reconstructions from 21,000 years ago to the present to predict where caribou habitat would likely exist.

Bolstered by the success of their retrospective analysis, the scientists forecasted caribou habitat to the year 2080 using a «business - as - usual» climate model: the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's A1B model.

The picture that emerges from the above is one of Alberta in policy inertia with respect to offsetting generally and for caribou and caribou habitat in particular, while other provinces and territories and the federal government all manage to forge ahead in this area.

Therefore, we require TransCanada must prepare and submit a caribou habitat restoration plan to the AER for approval....

In the same vein, in 2016 - 2107 AACO ran a series of webinars on offsetting for caribou and caribou habitat (recordings of which can be found here).

They found that caribou populations in the most climatically stable areas had the greatest genetic diversity and note that future climate forecasts bode ill for both caribou habitat and their genes.

What's more, he says, the baseline scenario he chose doesn't really decimate the caribou habitat.