Ontario plans to spend $29 million to help protect an iconic — and threatened — species: boreal caribou.
David Piccini, the provincial minister of environment, conservation and parks, made the announcement Wednesday at Lakehead University’s campus in Thunder Bay, Ont.
The funding will be distributed over four years to support habitat restoration and protection as well as monitoring, science and research. It is intended to complement the five-year Canada-Ontario Agreement for the Conservation of Caribou, Boreal Population in Ontario, finalized at the end of 2022.
“What’s more important than the dollar figure are the people we’re going to work with to achieve the spirit of
