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NWF released a paper today showing tar sands, oil and gas development in Canada is contributing to the decline in caribou herds. Rather than improve environmental practices to protect and restore caribou habitat, Canadian wildlife officials are poisoning wolves with strychnine-laced bait. The news comes as Alberta and Canadian officials scramble to address environmental monitoring failures that are wreaking havoc up north.

Wolf pups are likely innocent victims of Canadian oil and gas development.…
Strychnine progresses painfully from muscle spasms to convulsions to suffocation over a period of hours. The NWF paper says the poison will also put at risk animals like raptors, wolverines and cougars that eat the poisoned bait or scavenge on the carcasses of poisoned wildlife.

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Destroying and fragmenting caribou habitat to produce one of the dirtiest fuels on the planet means fewer caribou and fewer wolves just to line the pockets of Big Oil.
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It’s increasingly par for the course in Canada, as the nation continues its slide from ‘Green to Gray.’ What’s disturbing is that Keystone XL commits the U.S. to a decades-long partnership in these ‘crimes’ against wildlife.

Incredibly, the Canadian government actually acknowledges that carving up forests is threatening caribou. ‘Boreal caribou are primarily threatened by a reduction in the availability and suitability of habitat necessary to carry out the life processes necessary for their survival and reproduction,’ states Environment Canada’s proposed caribou recovery plan.
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If Canada wants to protect caribou herds, they should protect caribou habitat. Scapegoating wolves to produce profits for the oil industry is cruel and wrong.

And while we’re at it, let me just offer a reminder that this filthy climate-killing, wildlife-poisoning oil will lead to HIGHER gas prices.