Posts by Rosemary Collard

Rosemary Collard

About Rosemary Collard

Rosemary Collard is a human geographer and political ecologist whose research aims to develop political economic explanations for defaunation and extinction. She currently researches the political economy of extraction in endangered species habitat in Canada. She is an assistant professor in geography at Simon Fraser University.

Who benefits from caribou decline?

Dec 4, 2020
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Scientists predict caribou herds located in northeastern BC will go extinct within our lifetimes. How could this be? We were led to believe that environmental oversight introduced decades ago would protect this iconic Canadian species despite the large-scale industrial development that threatens them. We were promised a win-win: thriving caribou and a thriving economy. Fast… View Article