Forest sustainability should include caribou survival and recovery. The federal government’s caribou protection order provides a much-needed opportunity for a provincial forestry reset. Opinion by Julee Boan & Rachel Plotkin
On March 15, Ontario’s minister of environment, conservation and parks David Piccini pledged $29 million over four years to support habitat restoration and protection and research.
By his side was the Ontario Forest Industries Association, which hasthat these caribou are “far too numerous for the subspecies to be considered at risk,” that caribou decline is caused by factors that the government is “unable to control or incapable of measuring,” and that forests managed for industrial logging are leading to “healthier caribou populations.
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