Caribou tour coming to southern Ontario
This fall scientists and conservation groups are travelling across the province, telling an untold story -- woodland caribou in Ontario may be on the road to extinction. "Caribou are in the midst of a slow-motion crisis" said Dr. James Schaefer, Associate Professor at Trent University. In the late 1800s, Woodland Caribou could be found as far south as Georgian Bay and the Ottawa Valley, but they have systematically vanished from a vast area, a broad swath of 400 kilometres northward into the Boreal Forest. In little more than a century, they have lost almost 50% of their range in Ontario.
"Caribou are screaming at us to stop before we wipe them out completely" said Evan Ferrari, Director, Parks and Protected Areas program for CPAWS Wildlands League. "Woodland Caribou thrive best in forests that are 50 to 100 years old. As a result, our logging and development practices throughout Ontario have put them on the brink of extinction."
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