Source: Ashleigh Mattern, CBC News, January 18, 2018
Provinces missed 5-year deadline to develop habitat protection plans
The Saskatchewan Government has approved $200,000 for part of the research on woodland caribou that needs to be done to meet federal habitat protection plan requirements set five years ago.
Woodland caribou are listed as a threatened species under the federal Species At Risk Act. In 2012, the Government of Canada gave provinces five years to develop a strategy to combat the decline. As of the deadline last fall, none had delivered a plan, and woodland caribou populations are still declining.
