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VOCM Illegal Caribou Hunting ongoing in Labrador VOCM Conservation Officials in Labrador believe as many as 165 caribou may have been taken in an illegal hunt near Churchill Falls. Authorities say more than 200 ... See all stories on this topic

The Sportsman's World: Looking ahead to deer season Fulton Valley News (subscription) I've just started making plans for a Caribou hunting trip next fall. If everything works out, I would like to take Tyler with me. ... See all stories on this topic

Northern News Services (subscription) City weighs in on caribou hunt Northern News Services (subscription) Falling caribou numbers have lead to a joint governmental proposal to limit the hunt but the City of Yellowknife wants the economic impact of the proposal ... See all stories on this topic

Wildlife Officials Warn About Chronic Wasting Disease MPBN News The warning comes after nine hunters brought 18 caribou harvested in Canada into Maine without taking proper steps to avoid the spread of the infectious ... See all stories on this topic

CBC.ca Caribou killing continues in closed hunting zone CBC.ca Innu hunters have been killing caribou in an area of central Labrador this week that has been closed permanently to hunters to protect the endangered Red ... See all stories on this topic

NL wildlife officials say Innu hunting for caribou in closed area The Canadian Press JOHN'S, NL — Wildlife officials in Labrador are trying to determine what caribou herds Innu hunters have been targeting this week. ... See all stories on this topic

 

Caribout in the News November 2009

Official claims of declining caribou a deliberate hoax, says outfitter
The Canadian Press
YELLOWKNIFE — Caribou herds aren't shrinking; scientists are just looking in the wrong place. That's the opinion of some aboriginal elders and at least one ...
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Trial for Point Hope caribou killing delayed
TheNewsTribune.com
The trial of the men accused of wasting caribou during a hunt near Point Hope, scheduled to begin this month, has been pushed back, according to court ...
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West Moberly First Nations files caribou petition with BC Supreme Court
Energeticcity.ca
West Moberly First Nations wants the BC Supreme Court to overrule a government decision that allows mining in caribou habitat. In September, the Ministry of ...
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First Nation Takes BC to Court to Protect the Last 11 Caribou From Coal Mining
SYS-CON Media (press release)
"Since 2008, we have been struggling to protect the last 11 remaining caribou of the Burnt Pine caribou herd from extinction. So it was a sad day when MEMPR ...
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Teacher recalls mass caribou kill
Alaska Dispatch
Editor's note: When Point Hope teacher Kurt Schmidt discovered dozens of dead caribou on the tundra near the village in summer 2008, he was outraged. ...

 Caribou investigation raises more questions than it answers
Alaska Dispatch
ANALYSIS: Nobody knows how many caribou died in the Lisburne Hills outside of Point Hope in July 2008. Nobody knows who killed them all. ...
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Some First Nations oppose Yukon caribou hunting rules
CBC.ca
Some First Nations governments near the Dempster Highway are unhappy with the Yukon government's new hunting restrictions for the Porcupine caribou herd, ...
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Judge grants delay in caribou waste case
Alaska Dispatch
The eight village hunters were charged in March with the wasteful killing of caribou during a July 2008 hunt. State Troopers investigating the case have ...
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Caribou News

The Political Carnival: ANWR debate will heat up as caribou dwindle By GottaLaff Unusual freezing rains in autumn are locking lichen, the caribou's winter forage, under impenetrable ice sheets. This was the documented cause in the late 1990s of the near-extinction of the 50000-strong Peary caribou subspecies on ... The Political Carnival - http://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/ Reaction mixed to Yukon caribou hunting rules - Hymoo (Beta Version) By Bluto At least one Yukon aboriginal leader is praising new hunting restrictions that aim to protect the Porcupine caribou herd, but hunters from the. Hymoo (Beta Version) - http://www.hymoo.com/ For some caribou herds, news is good « Travelling and the American Man By fionatan Alaska's two largest caribou herds, the Western Arctic and Porcupine herds, appear to follow the Arctic trend of declining population, and the Mulchatna herd west of Anchorage is especially hard hit. ... Travelling and the American Man - http://godsunfoldingplan.org/community/fionatan/ Caribou decline Fairbanks Daily News-Miner I read the article on Oct. 5 by Charles J. Hanley about caribou herds across the Arctic and how the herds are in decline. Biologists in the Eurasian Arctic ... See all stories on this topic REINDEER HERDS UNDER THREAT UK Express Scientist Liv Solveig Vors, who is studying the deer, called caribou in North America, said climate change was to blame. Global warming has boosted ... See all stories on this topic
For some caribou herds, news is good TheNewsTribune.com By SEAN COCKERHAM Alaska's two largest caribou herds, the Western Arctic and Porcupine herds, appear to follow the Arctic trend of declining population, ... See all stories on this topic