Sentences with phrase «of caribou habitat»

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.

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.

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.

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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 here).

Caribou planning often talked of using offsets as a tool for arresting the decline of the species and its habitat.

If we look to federal jurisdiction, the National Energy Board has issued a series of decisions since 2010, with input from Environment and Climate Change Canada, requiring offsetting for caribou and other species at risk and rare or sensitive habitats.

May 1, 2018: Yesterday, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada released the first ever section 63 report under the Species at Risk Act, (SARA), where the Minister found that outside of protected areas, provinces and territories have failed to protect almost all of boreal caribou critical habitat.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Our local guides will ensure you get the best opportunities to view the park's legendary landmarks, introduce you to a host of authentic Alaskan activities and a unique creek - side lunch at our Miner's Day Lodge, and take you through the rugged habitats of bears, moose, caribou and more.

According to Environment Canada, woodland caribou need at least 65 per cent undisturbed habitat to have even a 60 per cent chance of being self - sustaining.

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.»

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.»

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.

T. Rupp, S., M. Olson, L. G. Adams, B. W. Dale, K. Joly, J. Henkelman, W. B. Collins, and A. M. Starfield, 2006: Simulating the influences of various fire regimes on caribou winter habitat.

Such massive industrialization of the landscape is destroying wildlife habitat, upsetting natural ecological and hydrological processes, and threatening numerous herds of Canada's threatened woodland caribou and the health of the forest ecosystem.

They are part of a culture, and the destruction of the caribou's habitat would destroy the culture of these indigenous people,» he says.

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