2007

The Woodland caribou is an icon of the great Canadian wilderness. We celebrate this majestic species by placing its image on our 25-cent piece. But the flip side of our Canadian quarter is a tale of human-caused habitat loss that's lead to the destruction of the very species we commemorate on this coin.

THE Manitoba government has made the right noises about protecting the woodland caribou but so far it hasn't followed up with any action says the local arm of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society.

The society and the Sierra Club of Canada reviewed Manitoba's recovery strategy for the Woodland Caribou and issued a report Tuesday.

(Winnipeg/Ottawa) The Manitoba government has the right goals to recover its threatened boreal woodland caribou, but its current strategy will not achieve the recovery of the species, according to a report released today by Sierra Club of Canada and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society.

Although Manitoba's 2002 Provincial Climate Change Action Plan has received accolades from across the country, our government's true commitment to reducing climate change has been widely questioned.

As mentioned in the article, Manitoba is nowhere near meeting our targets for 2010 and our outdated l Plan needs to be revised. It should be highlighted that the Climate Change Action Plan states very little about forests and nothing about conserving them as a measure to slow down acceleration of climate change..