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Ontario not effectively protecting boreal caribou habitat: federal minister

Ontario is failing to effectively protect some of the critical habitat for boreal caribou, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault has warned in a letter to the province obtained by The Canadian Press. Ontario Environment Minister David Piccini is announcing Wednesday that the province will spend $29 million over four years to …

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Here’s how caribou matchmaking — and a stud book — could help save Alberta’s dwindling herds

A careful kind of matchmaking will guide a last-resort effort to restore Jasper National Park’s vanishing herds of woodland caribou. With the park’s remaining herds considered too small to survive, Parks Canada plans to capture females — along with a small roster of bulls — and breed them in captivity.  …

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