A gruesome and graphic video circulating in Facebook groups in the Labrador area was not filmed in this province.

The Department of Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture says the video, showing a man dispatching a caribou with an axe was filmed in Quebec, and enforcement officers in that province are investigating.

A moratorium on the hunting of George River caribou remains in place in this province as the herd population is at less than one per cent of numbers recorded in the early 1990s.

The department says the hunting of animals in the Mealy Mountain and Lac Joseph herds is prohibited under the province’s Endangered Species Act.

Anyone with information regarding illegal hunting is encouraged to call the Resource Enforcement Division’s Labrador Regional Office at 709-896-7973 or the provincial 24/7 poaching line at 1-877-820-0999, or provide a report online.