Sentences with phrase «woodland caribou»

And that the Selkirk woodland caribou herd still spends part of each year in Idaho and Washington?

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.

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.

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.»

«These new leases violate Alberta's 2011 woodland caribou policy that places an immediate priority on maintaining caribou habitat», says Carolyn Campbell, AWA conservation specialist.

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.

Alberta's 2011 caribou policy states «The Government of Alberta is committed to achieving naturally sustaining woodland caribou populations.»

Albertas woodland caribou herds have historically occupied two - thirds province ranging from west - central foothills boreal forests register our relationship questionnaire today.

An imperiled caribou herd in western Alberta province in Canada could become a high - profile test case for a controversial plan to save some of Canada's woodland caribou from extinction: herding them into pens enclosing 100 square kilometers or more and ringed with electric fences, and killing or removing every predator inside.

«The woodland caribou is already an endangered species in southern Canada and the United States.

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.

For species like woodland caribou, a viable landscape must contain 65 per cent undisturbed land, and even something as small as a pipeline right - of - way creates a 500m effective disturbance in the landscape.

The Governor in Council accepted the panel's recommendations that the pipeline will have significant adverse environmental effects to populations of woodland caribou and grizzly bears, but that these effects are justified in the circumstances.