2011-06-21 Action Alert: Woodland Caribou Battle Goes to Federal Court
Tomorrow (June 22) AWA and our environmental and First Nations colleagues are in court in Edmonton, seeking a court order to force federal Environment Minister Peter Kent to recommend emergency protection of critical habitat for threatened caribou herds in northeastern Alberta.
Though it is 24 years since Alberta's woodland caribou were first designated an endangered species, caribou numbers are still in desperate decline, and both provincial and federal governments resolutely refuse to act to halt the decline.
Tomorrow (June 22) AWA and our environmental and First Nations colleagues are in court in Edmonton, seeking a court order to force federal Environment Minister Peter Kent to recommend emergency protection of critical habitat for threatened caribou herds in northeastern Alberta.
