Alberta has proposed a dangerous plan to protect caribou. Instead of slowing development and protecting key habitat the province will enclose a herd in a 100 square kilometre space and eliminate any predators that might threaten the herd.
The elimination of predators is not a scientifically sound method of protecting a herd. Caribou must have predation in order to maintain the health and strength of the herd as well as to prevent starvation. As well, predators are very important parts of the ecosystem.
This horrible bandaid solution does nothing to actually protect caribou populations that are threatened, not by predation but, by overdevelopment in Alberta that divides and destroys their natural Boreal forest habitat.
Sign now to protect caribou and their predators. By signing today you are sending a strong message that more than a poorly thought out, bandaid solution is needed to protect caribou.
To Minister Phillips,
As a person greatly concerned with the environment I urge you to abandon the current caribou restoration plan. This plan ignores that the key factors in caribou population decline is not predation but habitat destruction.
Enclosing caribou and destroying their predators will not increase the health of the caribou population as predators do an important part in regulating the population. Also, an enclosed population risks starvation in the absence of predators.
I urge you to make a commitment to protect the Boreal forest region from development as a sound caribou population restoration program that relies on long term solutions and does not kill, needlessly, predators.
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