Caribou have waited almost 10 years for recovery plans in Alberta: Have your say in their future!
Alberta’s caribou have been waiting for almost ten years for provincial range plans under Canada’s Species At Risk Act (SARA) while experiencing ongoing declines and accelerated habitat loss. The Government of Alberta has released draft version of plans that include caribou ranges, as well as some land surrounding the range, in “sub-regional plans”. These sub-regional plans will lay out the rules of the land, including limits, for all the industrial and recreational activities that occur within, and outside, caribou ranges in the sub-region.
Read the Bistcho Lake draft sub-regional plan here.
Read the draft Cold Lake sub-regional plan here.
Now is your chance to tell Alberta the future of caribou depends on strong sub-regional plans. The Government of Alberta is collecting public feedback on the draft sub-regional plans until May 29, 2021.
Here are the Government of Alberta surveys:
Additional context:
- Here is some background on the release of the draft sub-regional plans
- Alberta created multi-stakeholder Task Forces to provide recommendations to planners on the sub-regional plans. CPAWS Northern Alberta was invited to participate at the both Bistcho Lake and Cold Lake Task Forces.
- Read the Bistcho Lake Task Force recommendations here.
- Read the Cold Lake Task Force recommendations here.
Daunted by the survey? Don’t worry! We’ve read the sub-regional plans backwards and forwards, and have summarized our thoughts in the CPAWS survey guide below.
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