Environmentalists are divided on whether or not a brand new funding deal reached between Quebec and the federal authorities will assist save the province’s dwindling caribou herds.
The chief director of environmental group SNAP Québec says the settlement introduced earlier this week is a step in the precise course.
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Alain Branchaud says the deal indicators an openness by the Quebec authorities to collaborate with Ottawa on caribou safety, which incorporates the province agreeing to publish stories on the way it’s utilizing the cash.
However he says extra motion continues to be wanted, as is compensation for Quebec logging communities whose actions can be disrupted by significant conservation motion.
The settlement will see Ottawa ship Quebec $25 million over 5 years for caribou conservation initiatives, in addition to one other $15 million to Indigenous communities.
Retired Université de Sherbrooke biology professor Marco Festa-Bianchet sees the announcement as a smokescreen that provides the phantasm of progress whereas nothing concrete is finished for caribou.
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