The question begs to be answered: do Canadians want to lose its caribou population the way Australians are currently losing its koalas?
Following decade after decade of seriously inadequate land management - for forests and agriculture - Australia’s forest fires are raging and we are just now beginning to understand the sheer scale of destruction.
The result: a billion animals are dead.
In the meantime, while no one is looking, the Quebec government just abolished its own protective measures safeguarding the threatened woodland caribou, all in the name of giving giant logging corporations access to protected boreal forests.
Tell the Quebec government to protect our boreal forests and reestablish protections on caribous.
Extinction is forever.
And it’s not just the woodland caribou that is threatened, it is an entire nation’s culture and way of life, the Innus’ livelihood depend on the herd of caribous still migrating.
The Pessamit Innus have stopped hunting the caribou for the past ten years, watching, as the forest industry continues to chop away at the animal’s vital living space which shrinks day by day.
The caribou is sacred for the Innu and their objective is to protect a large forested area called the Pipmuacan sector.
But the caribou population continues to plummet. It now stands at less than 6,000 while the Quebec’s government target was 11,000 by the end of 2020.
We know that when SumOfUs members banded together to stop the CDPQ, Quebec’s Pension Fund, from continuing to invest in Amazon deforestation, it quickly responded by divesting from Brazil’s meat-producing behemoth JBS.
Will you help protect Canada’s iconic animal from extinction by signing the petition?
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The Narwhal. 22 December 2019.
(In French) Caribou forestier : la première nation innue de Pessamit affirme sa volonté de protéger le Pipmuacan
SNAP Quebec. 17 December 2019.
SNAP Quebec. 17 December 2019.