The Canadian Wildlife Federation wants Ottawa to stop turning over community pastures to the Prairie provinces because of concerns it has about species at risk.
In 2013, the previous Conservative government began a plan to transfer control of 900,000 hectares of community pastureland to Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta by 2018.
The federation says these provinces have not committed funding for managing species at risk on the pastures that were owned and managed by Agriculture Canada.
Carolyn Callaghan of the federation told CKDM that prior to 2012 these hectares were being handled very well by ranchers, but now there's no strings attached meaning they could be sold off in the future. Callaghan also reiterated that there are species on those lands at risk and that the native prairie lands are an endangered ecosystem.
You can hear the full interview on tomorrow's AG Show.
