U.S. outfitter fights N.W.T. caribou policy with NAFTA

[polly7]

U.S. outfitter fights N.W.T. caribou policy with NAFTA

The Canadian Press

Date: Sunday Mar. 28, 2010 10:16 AM ET


..........."Andre depends on an annual allotment of caribou tags to serve big-game hunters who come to his camps. But the yearly tags to non-aboriginal hunters have been gradually scaled back as the Northwest Territories tries to relieve pressure on its once-mighty herds.

Biologists say nine of Canada's 11 caribou herds are in decline. The Bathurst herd of the central barrens, they say, dropped from 120,000 animals in 2006 to 32,000 three years later. The Beverly herd to the east -- 280,000 strong 15 years ago -- has virtually disappeared."


I bet Caribou Barbie put him up to it .......

[happyslug]

1. You should include a cite when you make a post like that, here is a cite

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20100328/caribou_nwt_100328/20100328?hub=Canada

[MisterP]

2. first link I found

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100328/national/caribou_nafta_challenge

sounds like a "Wise Use" attack on the "expropriation" of not letting you use your sacred "property" in a certain way

[polly7]

3. sorry, i had posted it in the Canadian forum also and just forgot

to use the site:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20100328/caribou_nwt_100328/20100328?hub=Canada

[polly7]

4. No, it doesn't sound like a 'wise use' attack any more than shooting

wolves from above to up the big game populations for trophy hunters.

"Andre depends on an annual allotment of caribou tags to serve big-game hunters who come to his camps. But the yearly tags to non-aboriginal hunters have been gradually scaled back as the Northwest Territories tries to relieve pressure on its once-mighty herds"

Does NAFTA allow Aboriginal people to run on down and replenish their meat sources once the caribou are gone?

[polly7]

5. And it's not 'my' sacred property only, it's the thousands

of people who depend on these herds for their livlihoods. You seem almost hostile at these people protesting the dwindling of their food resource. Why is that?

[MisterP]

6. I was referring to the plaintiff Andre as a "Wise" User

for insisting that the protections are wrong, and for calling the protections an "expropriation"