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Dolphin Union Caribou Management Plan – January 11 - 13, 2016 Submission to the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board FOR DECISION Issue: Request for approval of the proposed final Management Plan for the Dolphin and Union Caribou in Canada Background: To develop the management plan, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) and Government of Nunavut (GN) held a co-management partners joint meeting in Kugluktuk in March 2015 (Appendix I), and in Cambridge Bay in January 2016 (Appendix II). Additional meetings were held via teleconference in 2015 and 2016 to draft and review specific parts of the plan and to receive additional input on the threats calculator portion of the document. ECCC does not have jurisdiction for managing the harvest of Dolphin and Union caribou. Therefore, ECCC will adopt the joint management plan, with the exception of the harvest management portion which will be left to the GN and GNWT for implementation in their respective jurisdiction. Community consultations on the draft management plan were conducted in April 2016; it was presented to the Ekaluktutiak and Kugluktuk Hunters and Trappers Organizations (HTOs) and the communities. ECCC, GNWT and GN amalgamated the feedback into a comment table (Appendix III), and reviewed and/or incorporated comments into the draft management plan. ECCC emailed the comment table to HTOs on June 6, 2016 to ensure the comments captured in the meetings were correct. ECCC followed up with phone calls HTOs about table comments, but did not receive responses from the HTOs. ECCC, GNWT and GN updated the table to show how comments were reviewed and/or incorporated into the document and send the table back to HTOs. The first jurisdictional technical review of the draft recovery document was conducted from June 3 to July 8, 2016. ECCC sent the document to the NWMB on June 3, 2016, while the GN sent the document to the HTOs. ECCC did not receive any responses about the draft, but the GN received comments from the Ekaluktutiak HTO. ECCC, Page 1 of 3 The Species at Risk Act and You GNWT and GN worked together to review comments received from other jurisdictions and incorporated them into the recovery document if necessary. The second jurisdictional technical review of the proposed management plan was conducted from September 2 to October 7, 2016. ECCC sent the document to the NWMB on September 2, while the GN sent the document to HTOs. ECCC, GNWT and GN worked together to review comments received during this process and incorporated them into the recovery document. ECCC posted the proposed document from March 30 to May 29, 2017, on the Species at Risk Public Registry for a 60-day public comment period. ECCC sent the document to the HTOs, NTI and NWMB. ECCC sent a questionnaire asking for approval of the proposed document to the Kugluktuk and Ekaluktutiak HTOs, and neither raised objections. ECCC, GNWT and GN considered the minor comments received during the 60-day public comment period and revised the document in June and July 2017. Figure 1. Current range of Dolphin and Union Caribou in NU and NT. Page 2 of 3 The Species at Risk Act and You Next Steps: This briefing is the notification of the results of the consultations and accommodation based on consultation record on the recovery document in Nunavut. ECCC is now prepared to post the recovery documeent on the SSpecies at Risk Public Registry as final. ECCC and the GN are providing the recovery document to the NWMB for final approval decision as per the NLCA s. 5.2.34 Recommendation: That the NWMB considers whether or not they approve the proposed final Management Plan for the Barren-ground Caribou (Rangifer taranddus groenlandicus), Dolphin and Union population, in Canada: Adoption of the Management Plan for the Dolphin and Union Caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus x pearyi) in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut under the federal Species at Risk Act as per the NLCA s. 5.2.34. © K. Poole Prepared by: Dawn Andrews, Species at Risk Biologist Canadian Wildlife Service Environment and Climate Change Canada Yellowknife, NT Phone: 867‐669‐4767 June 30, 2017 Page 3 of 3 SUBMISSION TO THE NUNAVUT WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT BOARD FOR Information: Decision: X Issue: Request a decision to approve or not the Dolphin and Union Management Plan titled “Management Plan for the Barren-ground Caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus), Dolphin and Union population, in Canada: Adoption of the Management Plan for the Dolphin and Union Caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus x pearyi) in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut”. Background The Dolphin and Union herd was assessed as a Species of Special Concern by Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) in 2004, up- listed under part 4 of Schedule 1 of the federal Species at Risk Act in 2011 (SARA) and on the Northwest Territories List of Species at Risk as a species of “special concern” in 2014. With the recent assessment by COSEWIC, threats facing Dolphin and Union classified them as high-very high (based on- IUCN-CMP unified threats classifications system), which put a strong emphasis to increase the monitoring effort on the Dolphin and Union herd and the much needed development of a management plan for the herd. Dumond and Lee (2007) estimated the extrapolated population of Dolphin and Union caribou at 27,787 ± 7,537 (95% CI), and the same analysis was applied to the 1997 estimates resulting in a revised extrapolated estimate of 34,558 ± 6,801 (95% CI) caribou. The 2015 extrapolated population of Dolphin and Union Caribou was estimated at 18,413 ± 6,795 caribou (95% CI). This estimate shows signs of decline relative to the 2007 survey estimates (z-test, Z=-2.19, p=0.036).There has been an overall decline of 33.8%, or 5% annually since 1997. Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) must produce a federal management plan for the Dolphin and Union caribou under the federal Species At Risk Act. The Government of Northwest Territories (GNWT) is also required to develop a management plan under its Territorial Species at Risk Act. Since 2015, the Government of Nunavut, Department of Environment (GN-DOE), has committed to taking part in the development of the Dolphin and Union Management Plan. GN-DOE has participated actively and provided technical information and expertise into the management plan development process. 1 The Dolphin and Union Management Plan was drafted based on the input received from the co-management partners (HTOs, NTI, KRWB) during the first and second joint meetings, draft consultation, and two jurisdictions reviews to accommodate their comments. The Dolphin and Union Management Plan was developed upon a community-based management approach in consultation with all the communities that harvest from this caribou herds. There were two rounds of community and public engagements, consultations at different phase of the management plan development to assure active community participation and accommodation. Current Status The Government of Nunavut’s Department of Environment (DOE) has been working with communities, HTOs, KRWO, NTI and interjurisdictional co-management partners (Environment Canada, and Government of Northwest Territories) to develop a joint management plan for Dolphin and Union caribou herd. The first engagement teleconference call happened on February 18, 2015 ECCC does not have jurisdiction for managing the harvest of Dolphin and Union caribou in Nunavut. Therefore, the Government of Nunavut and the Government of NWT were responsible to develop the harvest management portion of the Dolphin and Union management plan and its submission to NWMB for approval. The harvest management recommendations are based on the population size (high, increasing, declining, and low), as well as taking in consideration other indicators such as recruitment, pregnancy rate, sex ratio. This harvest management is based on the population cycle, which recognized the Dolphin and Union herd being a small herd with an historic high agreed at 40,000 animals and where Inuit harvest restrictions might be considered when the herd falls to 20% of the high, below 8,000 animals. The Kugluktuk and Cambridge Bay HTO has already imposed voluntary management actions following discussion happen during the Management Plan consultation process: o Kugluktuk has a motion to suspend all caribou commercial and sport hunts. o Cambridge Bay HTO is reducing the number of tag allocating to sport hunt. o There is no commercial harvest of Dolphin and Union caribou herd in Nunavut. o Increase in educational and public awareness on the Dolphin and Union programs (HTOs and GN). The Department has engaged with and continues to work closely with the affected communities and respective co-management partners (NTI, HTOs, KRWB) and GNWT on management actions needed and to monitor the Dolphin and Union caribou herd. Consultations: 2 Face-to-face: February 18, 2015: Introductory meeting in Yellowknife and phone. Participants: Kugluktuk HTO, Umingmaktok HTO, Ekaluktutiak HTO, Gjoa Haven HTO, KRWB, NTI, ECCC and GN. March 25-27, 2015: First Joint Meeting in Kugluktuk (NU). Participants: Kugluktuk HTO, Ekaluktutiak HTO, KRWB, NTI, KIA, ECCC, and GN. (See Appendix I) October 26, 2015: Framework Review Teleconference. Participants: Burnside HTO, Ekaluktutiak HTO, KRWB, NTI, KIA, NWMB, ECCC, and GN January 11-13, 2016: Second Joint Meeting in Cambridge Bay (NU). Participants: Kugluktuk HTO, Burnside HTO, Ekaluktutiak HTO, KRWB, NTI, ECCC, and GN. (See Appendix II) February 8, 2016: Threat Calculator Exercise Teleconference. Participants: Ekaluktutiak HTO, KRWB, ECCC and GN. April 19, 2016: Draft Consultation with the Ekaluktutiak HTO and Community of Cambridge Bay. Participants: Ekaluktutiak HTO, Burnside HTO, ECCC and GN. April 28, 2016: Draft Consultation with the Kugluktuk HTO and Community of Kugluktuk. Participants: Kugluktuk HTO, ECCC and GN. Written: June 3, 2016: First jurisdictional technical review. Send the management plan to all HTOs September 2, 2016: Second jurisdictional technical review.
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