Caribou Archive
2012-02-03 AWA News Release: Beyond Monitoring - Responsible Management Needed for Oilsands Wildlife and Wetlands Impacts
Today, forty five years after the first tar sands mines started, the federal government has finally taken steps to introduce credible monitoring for contaminants and habitat degradation from oilsands development. Alberta Wilderness Association believes that long-overdue monitoring of Alberta’s oilsands impacts is a step in the right direction, but monitoring itself will not fix any of the issues which have so bedeviled the industry for the past few years.
2012-01-31 Southern Mountain Caribou Conservation Strategy
AWA 's letter to Parks Canada commenting on the proposed Conservation Strategy for Southern Mountain Caribou in Canada's National Parks.
2011-11-25 AWA News Release: Habitat focus needed for Alberta's caribou
Parks Canada’s newly-announced Southern Mountain Caribou Conservation Strategy, including a captive breeding and reintroduction program, will fail in Alberta without a stronger focus on habitat protection and restoration. Alberta Wilderness Association calls on federal and provincial governments to deal with the root cause of Alberta’s plummeting caribou populations: habitat destruction by human disturbance.
2011-10-31 Alberta Woodland Caribou – Proposed Federal Recovery Strategy Declares War on Wolves, Lets Habitat Degradation Continue
Wild Lands Advocate article, October 2011, by Carolyn Campbell
2011-08-29 AWA News Release: Updated Northeast Alberta Plan Confirms Weak Conservation Measures Favouring Oilsands Development
The Alberta government's updated Draft Lower Athabasca Regional Plan confirms irresponsible tar sands development by postponing all land disturbance limits and biodiversity goals, and by actually reducing already insufficient proposed protected woodland caribou habitat.
2011-08-26 AWA News Release: Federal Government Writes Off Alberta Caribou- War on Wolves Goes National
A long overdue federal woodland caribou recovery strategy released today allows ongoing habitat loss at the hands of Alberta's energy and forestry industries. For the weakest herds in Alberta and across Canada, it leaves the only key management tool as the killing of thousands of wolves.
2011-08-18 AWA News Release: Alberta’s Woodland Caribou in Peril. Newly-revealed Documents Show Scientists Trying to Sound the Alarm
The plight of Alberta’s woodland caribou has become so desperate that Alberta government scientists are recommending that the species be downgraded from a threatened species to an endangered species, according to newly‐released documents. Although the province’s Scientific Subcommittee recommended the downgrading nearly a year ago, still the government is failing to act.
2011-08-17 AWA-EcoJustice News Release: Alberta Caribou Protection Lost in Secret Forestry Deal
With a long overdue federal recovery strategy for Alberta’s critically threatened woodland caribou anticipated to be only weeks away, the Government of Alberta has quietly signed a new 20 year Forest Management Agreement (FMA) with Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries (Al-Pac) that closes the door on protecting caribou habitat in northeastern Alberta.
2011-07-29 ENGO News Release: Federal Court Overturns Minister’s Decision Not to Recommend Emergency Protection for Caribou
The federal Environment Minister’s “out of the blue” decision not to recommend emergency protection for woodland caribou in northeastern Alberta ignored scientific evidence and must be set aside, the Federal Court said late yesterday.
2011-07-28 Federal Court Decision, Caribou Emergency Measures
Federal Court decision in response to application by AWA, Pembina Institute and three First Nations to compel the federal Environment Minister to bring in emergency measures to protect caribou.
2011-07-14 Keeping Woodland Caribou in the Boreal Forest: Big Challenge, Immense Opportunity
"To conserve woodland caribou means dispensing with business as usual, which has demonstrably and repeatedly failed to meet caribou conservation needs." This is the conclusion of a new report from the International Boreal Conservation Science Panel.
2011-07-14 Dear Premier Stelmach: Woodland Caribou Herds are in Decline Across Canada’s Boreal Region
Letter to premier Stelmach from the Canadian Boreal Initiative and the Pew Environment Group. "Now more than ever, urgent action is required by the Alberta government to sustain caribou populations throughout the province."
2011-06-24 AWA News: Caribou Court Case Update
AWA and our environmental and First Nations colleagues were in court in Edmonton yesterday, 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.
2011-06-23 Slideshow: Alberta's Woodland Caribou, by the Numbers
Alberta's Woodland Caribou, by the numbers. See the true story of the plight of Alberta's Caribou unfold in this slideshow that illuminates just why they so desperately need your help to survive.
2011-06-21 ENGO News Release: Woodland Caribou Battle Goes to Federal Court
Environmental groups are in Federal Court today to fight for immediate protection of caribou habitat facing unchecked oilsands development in northeastern Alberta. Ecojustice, on behalf of the Pembina Institute and Alberta Wilderness Association, is seeking a court order to force Environment Minister Peter Kent to recommend emergency protection of critical habitat for threatened caribou herds in northeastern Alberta.
2011-06-21 Anthropogenic and Fire Disturbances in Woodland Caribou Herd Ranges in the Lower Athabasca Regional Plan Area
Report by Global Forest Watch Canada
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.
2011-04-00 Caribou Betrayed Once Again by Government Inaction
Wild Lands Advocate article, April 2011, by Nigel Douglas
2011-02-22 AWA News Release: Alberta Ignores Caribou Scientists Again. Caribou Betrayed by Government Inaction
Alberta’s long history of failed recovery of woodland caribou took another downwards lurch this week, when the Alberta government admitted that it would be ignoring the advice of its own scientists to downgrade this charismatic species from threatened to endangered. Despite clear evidence that caribou numbers continue to decline, twenty-four years of inaction look set to continue.
2010-11-24 AWA News Release: Perfect Storm for Alberta’s Caribou: Bill 29, Tar Sands, and Another Worthless Caribou Policy
A new Alberta Caribou ‘policy’, which does nothing to protect severely threatened woodland caribou, is one more nail in the coffin for this beleaguered species. An open-door policy on tar sands development, and proposed changes to protected areas legislation in Bill 29 guarantee doom for woodland caribou in north-eastern Alberta.
