Actually, most of the problem with the George River herd and the decline of the herds in northern Quebec, the barren ground caribou, are due to a 100-year cycle of those caribou.
There is on the record another collapse that was noted approximately 100 years ago. Just before the collapse of those herds, the caribou migrated to the south. I guess they were looking for habitat. Then all of a sudden there was a dieback. In the early part of this millennium they started to die back, and that has continued. Right now the Cree and the Inuit are advocating closing the sport hunting of the animals.
The place where the real problem in terms of habitat loss occurs is further south. It's the woodland caribou that are in danger, and Quebec hasn't developed a plan for preserving the woodland caribou habitat, but there are—