Caribou Consultation meetings

Conservation officials are trying to figure out how to reverse declining caribou numbers in Labrador.

Without impeding Indigenous food supplies and they say the next step could be listing the Caribou species on the federal Species at Risk Act.

We spoke with Paul Macdonald who is the Wildlife Biologist.

Macdonald says caribou consultations meetings were held in Happy Valley Goose Bay, North West River, Rigolet and Postville last year.

But due to poor weather conditions they had to postpone some communities, but they will be making their way to Makkovik, Nain and Hopedale this month.

He says they plan to visit and hold meetings in Natuashish and Sheshatshiu also but the dates are yet to be determined.

In recent years, the George River and Torngat herds have shrunk to very low levels, and this year will mark six years the province brought in a ban on hunting the animals in Labrador.

To find out more about these consultation meetings, click here