HERDING BEHAVIOUR

3/18

Known southern mountain caribou sub-populations in B.C. that haven't seen decrease or extirpation

1,200

The province's southern mountain caribou population, versus about 2,500 in 1995

UNDER SECTION 80

of the federal Species at Risk Act, Environment Minister Catherine

Mckenna can issue an emergency order and make decisions about resource extraction, tourism and other land use activities that are normally provincial responsibilities if it decides a province isn't doing enough to recover a threatened species

2

Times the feds have issued an emergency order: in 2014 to protect the greater sage grouse in Alberta and Saskatchewan, and in 2016 for the western chorus frog in Quebec