CPAWS is working to:
- get the best possible conservation outcomes for the caribou listed under the Species at Risk Act in northern BC. This includes boreal caribou and other kinds of caribou in northern BC.
- create a new National Park in northern BC that includes important woodland caribou habitat.
- collaborate with the Kaska First Nation to protect important caribou habitat in their traditional territory.
- provide information to the Taku River Tlingit on how to do land use planning in an era of climate change – to make sure that caribou habitat will be protected even as our climate changes significantly over the next 100 years.
Success!
CPAWS BC was instrumental in protecting the 6.4 million hectare Muskwa-Kechika Management Area, which includes a series of large protected areas for species like the Woodland Caribou
CPAWS BC and other environmental groups played an important role in protecting over 2.2 million hectares of mountain caribou habitat in the globally unique Inland Temperate Rainforest. The plan also commits the BC government to developing more sustainable forestry practices in the surrounding forest habitat.
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April 2009: Critical habitat identified in British Columbia
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Critical habitat for Woodland Caribou
Action needed for survival
Improve habitatMaintain habitat
Disturbance possible
Identification of local populations required
Range of Boreal Woodland caribou
Boreal region of Canada
Snapshot
Outside the Boreal forest, BC's Mountain Caribou population in the interior temperate rainforest is considered endangered. The Dawson's population once lived on Gwaii Haanas, but is now extinct. The Species at Risk Act requires that the government(s) develop management plans for these caribou.
Provincial protection:
British Columbia doesn't have endangered species laws. However, the province has drafted a recovery strategy for the Boreal Woodland caribou. They now need to put it into action.