End of the line for Quebec caribou herd

 By Marc Montgomery | english@rcinet.ca

 A caribou herd crossing a river in northern Quebec. A dwindling herd near Val D’Or seems likely now to disappear. PHOTO Lester Kovac- wiki commons

 ...The Quebec government announced this month that it would simply be too expensive to try to save the animals. They had proposed sending the animals to a zoo in 2017, but that was opposed by conservation groups who said the animals likely wouldn’t survive the move and life in captivity.  The zoo at Ste Felicien, also later said they wouldn’t take the caribou, prompting the Quebec government to make its declaration there would be no money spent towards the herd’s survival...http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2018/03/29/end-of-the-line-for-quebec-caribou-herd/