The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society is throwing cold water on a federal strategy to protect Canadian woodland caribou.
Ottawa recently released a plan to address the declining population of the herds in the country.
Gord Vaadeland is a boreal conservation manager with the group’s Saskatchewan chapter.
He says his main focus is on woodland caribou below the Churchill River.
Some of the animals frequent the Dore Lake area, while others dwell near Prince Albert National Park.
However, he says their numbers are quite low.
Vaadeland says he doesn’t like the strategy because Ottawa seems to be trying a one-size-fits-all approach for the entire country.
He explains the government strategy talks about maintaining herd levels — but Vaadeland says the numbers in this province are so low, that simply isn’t enough.
Rather, he thinks the strategy should look at ways herds can be built back up to their previous numbers.