Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and it's going to be a long answer on this one because I want to make sure we get the information out there.

In recent years, we have seen a decline in many caribou herds across the NWT and northern Canada. As you noted, the Bathurst herd declined from an estimated 47,000 in 1986 to 6,240 in 2021. At the time, we also saw a major decline in the Bluenose-East herd, declining from 120,000 in 2010 to 19,300 in 2018. The Beverly herd declined -- located to the east of the Bathurst herd was established at 103 in 2018. That's 103,000. And has been undergoing a slow decline in recent years. While the historical range of the Ahiak herd has extended in the NWT, they currently don't occur in the NWT but only in Nunavut.

Given the declines and the size of the barren land caribou herds, the GNWT has been working closely with wildlife co-management partners in the NWT to implement measures to support conservation recovery of these herds.

So we are working very much with our Indigenous hunters. And one of the questions the Member talked about -- or not -- said or heard about wildlife and that, we do have the opportunity to do community hunts, that we work with the Indigenous governments, but there's also caribou, moose, muskox out there as well, that opportunity to get wild meat out there. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.