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Alberta's Caribou Protection Plans aim to reduce the impact on caribou of industrial activity in sensitive areas.
Caribou Protection Plans strive to reduce the industrial footprint and impacts on caribou and are required for certain categories of new industrial activities within caribou zones, as identified in the provincially-approved caribou land-use referral map. These activities include:
If the industrial activity is not one of those identified in the list above, then no CPP is required, and the proponent must abide by the caribou conditions included within the project's associated Landscape Analysis Tool (LAT) Report.
CPPs describe how mitigation works towards achieving desired outcomes for caribou habitat within the context of the Woodland Caribou Policy for Alberta. The desired outcomes are:
Please review the following documents for caribou protection plan submission information:
See this page for a Caribou Land-use Referral Boundary Map
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