Sentences with phrase «caribou habitat in»

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.»

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.

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

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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 hereIn 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 herein 2016 - 2107 AACO ran a series of webinars on offsetting for caribou and caribou habitat (recordings of which can be found here).

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 most significant shortcoming in the Plan may be that it allows for significant continued industrial logging in already excessively disturbed critical habitat for woodland caribou in the boreal forest.

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).

«Those caribou herds that shift their range to remain within their habitat and those herds that are reduced in size and become isolated from neighboring herds are those most threatened with loss of genetic diversity,» said Hundertmark.

«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 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 and they matched reservoirs of high genetic diversity to areas with the most stable habitat over time.

Scientists looked at reservoirs of genetic diversity in caribou and whether that diversity was linked to stable habitats.

Some 500,000 acres of boreal forest in Ontario and Alberta alone — key habitat for caribou, lynx, wolves and scores of birds — are felled each year to provide pulp for disposable paper.

It's one of the largest intact forest ecosystems left on Earth; it's actually only three or four places that have these large unfragmented habitats left and because of that it holds some of the largest populations of mammals and birds — some of the largest populations of wolves, for example, in, caribou as well as, we estimate one to three billion birds that nest there every year and that's some of the birds that are actually stopping off at Central Park.

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.

«Caribou can respond to habitat change in three ways:,» said Kris Hundertmark, co-author and wildlife biologist - geneticist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Institute of Arctic Biology.

In order to reach that conclusion, scientists looked at genetic diversity in caribou and whether that diversity was linked to stable habitatIn order to reach that conclusion, scientists looked at genetic diversity in caribou and whether that diversity was linked to stable habitatin caribou and whether that diversity was linked to stable habitats.

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.

Tar Sands and Unconventional Fossil Fuels In a previous post «Silence Is Deadly» I wrote, «The environmental impacts of tar sands development include: irreversible effects on biodiversity and the natural environment, reduced water quality, destruction of fragile pristine Boreal forest and associated wetlands, aquatic and watershed mismanagement, habitat fragmentation, habitat loss, disruption to life cycles of endemic wildlife particularly bird and caribou migration, fish deformities and negative impacts on the human health in downstream communities.&raquIn a previous post «Silence Is Deadly» I wrote, «The environmental impacts of tar sands development include: irreversible effects on biodiversity and the natural environment, reduced water quality, destruction of fragile pristine Boreal forest and associated wetlands, aquatic and watershed mismanagement, habitat fragmentation, habitat loss, disruption to life cycles of endemic wildlife particularly bird and caribou migration, fish deformities and negative impacts on the human health in downstream communities.&raquin downstream communities.»

Booming tar sands operations in Canada are destroying wildlife habitat at an increasing pace — pushing woodland caribou to the brink of extinction and prompting plans to poison and shoot thousands of wolves in a cruel effort to «protect» the caribou.

Winter habitat selection by caribou in relation to lichen abundance, wildfires, grazing, and landscape characteristics in northwest Alaska

In addition to affecting the habitat of local wildlife such as caribou and musk...