{"id":589,"date":"2017-11-03T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/uncategorized\/589\/call-on-provincial-premiers-to-protect-caribou-habitat\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T04:22:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:22:36","slug":"call-on-provincial-premiers-to-protect-caribou-habitat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/story\/589\/call-on-provincial-premiers-to-protect-caribou-habitat\/","title":{"rendered":"Call on provincial premiers to protect caribou habitat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<div>\n\t<strong>Ask your Premier publicly about their plans to save Canada\u2019s woodland caribou and other species at risk. \u00a0Just last week, the Quebec government announced they will let the Val-d\u2019Or caribou herd die-off. This sad story is a a wake-up call for all provincial premiers: \u00a0they must listen to the best available scientific and Indigenous knowledge to protect woodland caribou, their habitat and the boreal forest. <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Tell your Premier to act NOW!<\/strong><br \/>\n<span>But protecting the boreal forest has value beyond saving our endangered species : by taking steps to better protect woodland caribou and their habitat, we will also protect one of the world\u2019s largest carbon stores and help the fight against climate change.<\/span><br \/>\n<strong><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2018\/06\/139378_250701.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\"><\/strong><br \/>\n<span>That\u2019s why we\u2019re asking you to post on the Facebook pages of the provincial Premiers. <\/span><span>The more of us take action, the bigger our impact.<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>To contact \u00a0your own Premier directly, it\u2019s easy: go to their page, find their latest post, then comment on it. You can either use our message suggestions below, or write your own!<\/strong><br \/>\n<span>Here are the Facebook pages of the different premiers we\u2019re petitioning to protect caribou.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/premierofnl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span>Dwight Ball<\/span><\/a><span>, Premier of Newfoundland &amp; Labrador<\/span>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/phcouillard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span>Philippe Couillard<\/span><\/a><span>, Premier of Quebec<\/span>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WynneFans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span>Kathleen Wynne<\/span><\/a><span>, Premier of Ontario<\/span>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BrianPallister\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span>Brian Pallister<\/span><\/a><span>, Premier of Manitoba<\/span>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PremierScottMoe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span>Scott Moe<\/span><\/a><span>, Premier of Saskatchewan<\/span>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rachelnotley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span>Rachel Notley<\/span><\/a><span>, Premier of Alberta<\/span>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/johnhorganbc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span>John Horgan<\/span><\/a><span>, Premier of British Columbia<\/span>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/premiersandysilver\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span>Sandy Silver<\/span><\/a><span>, Premier of Yukon<\/span>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>Key message you can use (or write your own to have the biggest impact):<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<em>Woodland caribou have been listed as a threatened species in Canada for 15 years. How will you ensure that they will escape the same fate as Quebec\u2019s Val-d\u2019Or herd, recently condemned to extinction \u00a0by the Quebec government? <\/em>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<em>We are hearing a lot of talk but not seeing a lot of action &#8211; what are you doing about the crisis in our forests and the decline of woodland caribou in your province?<\/em>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<em>What are the Indigenous-lead proposals to protect the forest and the woodland caribou that your government is supporting on the ground?<\/em>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<em>What is your deadline for showing us plans to protect caribou habitat that the public expects and which your government has a legal responsibility to deliver?<\/em>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<em>Please act now and protect caribou habitat in our province.<\/em>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thank you for taking action! You can also spread the news about the Val,d\u2019Or caribou and ask your friends to sign our petition on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/greenpeace.canada\/posts\/10155954730434961\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GreenpeaceCA\/status\/972186250529648640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span><span><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2018\/06\/139377_250699.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask your Premier publicly about their plans to save Canada\u2019s woodland caribou and other species at risk. \u00a0Just last week, the Quebec government announced they will let the Val-d\u2019Or caribou herd die-off. This sad story is a a wake-up call for all provincial premiers: \u00a0they must listen to the best available scientific and Indigenous knowledge to protect woodland caribou, their habitat and the boreal forest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[27],"p4-page-type":[16],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nature","tag-forests","p4-page-type-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71155,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/71155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}