Task
- Option One: Collaborate with a partner and find a local example of the issues highlighted in this story.
- Option Two: In small groups, discuss the issues being debated in this story. What are your thoughts? What context needs to be understood in order to move forward? Is there a solution?
What do you think?
- Do you agree with Caribou Patrol that everything in our environment has a role?
- Do we understand the consequences of losing the caribou, or is more research required?
- Do you think the wolf cull is the right choice to save the caribou?
- Are we doing enough to save the caribou? Or are we using too many resources to protect a species that might not be savable?
- Can we save the caribou and protect every community – and their cultures – at the same time? If we had to choose, could we?
Terms & Concepts
- Viable Population of Species
- Carrying Capacity
- Western Science
- Traditional Knowledge
- Reservoir
- Nutrient Cycle
- Carbon Cycle
- Old Growth Forest
- Subspecies
- Stewardship
- Cull
- Bandaid Effect
- Intact Habitat
- Resource Industry
- Natural Resource
- GDP/Gross Domestic Product
- OECD
- Credit Score
- Social Service
- Socio-Economic Goals
- Web of Life
This story in the media
All 6 endangered spotted owls released in Fraser Valley have died, B.C. says
Bias: none
Source: CTV News
File Type: Article
Overview: All 6 endangered spotted owls released in Fraser Valley have died, B.C. says
Web Link: https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/all-6-endangered-spotted-owls-released-in-fraser-valley-have-died-bc-says/
Despite Biotech Efforts to Revive Species, Extinction Is Still Forever
Bias: Centre
Source: Yale
File Type: Essay
Overview: Despite Biotech Efforts to Revive Species, Extinction Is Still Forever
Web Link: https://e360.yale.edu/features/de-extinction
Protecting just 1.2% of Earth’s land could save most-threatened species, says study
Bias: none
Source: The Guardian
File Type: Study/Article
Overview: Protecting just 1.2% of Earth’s land could save most-threatened species, says study
Web Link: https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/25/protecting-just-12-of-earths-land-could-save-worlds-most-threatened-species-says-study-aoe
Referenced Resources
- Recovery Strategy for the Whitebark Pine (Pinus albicaulis) in Canada
- Caribou are vanishing at an alarming rate. Is it too late to save them?
- Learn about caribou in British Columbia
- ‘A sad day’: two more B.C. mountain caribou herds now locally extinctTsáá? ché ne dane Traditional Knowledge and Restoration Study
- Recovery Strategy for the Woodland Caribou, Boreal population (Rangifer tarandus caribou) in Canada
- Caribou range maps
- Government embarks on new approach to old forests
- Wolves use trails created by humans for convenient hunting and easier access to prey
- Biodiversity: Finance and the Economic and Business Case for Action
- We don’t need to save endangered species. Extinction is part of evolution.
- Extinction is a natural process, but it’s happening at 1,000 times the normal speed
- Is Canada’s population too small?
- Canada is a huge country. Most of it is unfit for human habitation.