Today at 1:30 in the afternoon, the NWSAR Municipal Committee submitted their petition to the Alberta Government to rethink their draft caribou protection plan for the region’s threatened Woodland Caribou.
Deputy Reeve of Mackenzie County and Chair of the NWSAR Committee Lisa Wardley says she doesn’t believe the government’s plan will significantly increase caribou herds, and will devastate our economy. Wardley says there are much better wildlife management measures that can be used, which will actually help the caribou without hurting livelihoods.
The petition the NWSAR committee submit has reached almost up to 9,400 signatures, which is approximately 50% of the adult population in the region. The petition asks for the government to use targeted measures which focus on increasing numbers of caribou within a multi-species approach, and not by putting in place permanently protected land areas in the region.
~JD
