Ben Parfitt: Recovery plan for B.C.’s threatened boreal caribou only window dressing

At its most charitable, B.C.’s “recovery” plan for boreal caribou, one of our province’s most-threatened wildlife species, amounts to window dressing.
At its worst, it looks a lot like annihilation.
The plan, such as it is, accepts as a given that there will be a drastic decline in caribou numbers in the coming years. And now we learn that one of the biggest culprits in that projected decline — fossil-fuel companies drilling and fracking for natural gas — aren