CPAWS is working to:

• Protect the Grey River caribou herd and assess the habitat they use
• Get Newfoundland's woodland caribou listed as "threatened" under the Species at Risk Act
• Protect the rapidly declining Red Wine caribou herd and their habitat
• Ask the NL government to implement its $15.3 million Caribou Recovery Program.
• Focus efforts in and around spring calving grounds to ensure the calves reach an age where they are safer from predation
• Increase the management of moose populations.  Moose numbers have skyrocketed, increasing competition with caribou
• Appeal the Corner Brook Pulp & Paper mill's 5-year cutting plan for districts 14/15 in western NF.  This will affect 3 of NF's caribou herds and a massive amount of land.

Success!

CPAWS worked with local communities to establish Mealy Mountains National Park Reserve in Labrador. This new national park reserve, established in February 2010, encompasses 10,700 sq km now protects a threatened woodland caribou herd and its Boreal forest habitat.

Links and Resources

• Woodland Caribou: Going down with the trees
  Advertiser (NL), March 18 2010
• Backgrounder: Caribou in Newfoundland and Labrador
• Labrador Caribou Recovery Strategy (Newfoundland and Labrador, 2004)
• "Startling" new data on the decline of Newfoundland Island population (Newfoundland and Labrador, Feb 7, 2008)

More resources

April 2009: Critical habitat identified in Newfoundland & Labrador
News release (PDF)
Backgrounder (PDF)
National Critical Habitat Report