A former conservation officer in Labrador is calling on federal officials to assist with enforcement to help protect endangered woodland caribou populations in the south of Labrador.
Hollis Yetman is frustrated over what he sees as a lack of enforcement on the Labrador side of the border preventing hunters from taking the protected animals.
He was on VOCM Open Line with Paddy Daly. “If I hear the words ‘monitor the hunt’ one more time, I think I’m going to puke,” he says.
He claims hunters travelling in from Quebec are “robbing the rest of us of ever eating caribou again.”
He says the provincial government has jurisdiction, but the caribou are a federally protected species. He says there is a “total lack of enforcement presence” within Parks Canada locally, and no federal wildlife officers in the area.
