Caribou in the News -- December 8, 2005

Caribou in steep decline: can they be saved?
Slave Lake Lakeside Leader - Slave Lake,Alberta,Canada
"There are very few communities in Alberta can say they've got caribou a mile away," says provincial government wildlife biologist Mark Heckbert. ...

State closing section of Fortymile caribou hunt
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Fairbanks,AK,USA
The state Department of Fish and Game is closing a portion of the Fortymile caribou hunt off the Taylor Highway at midnight Thursday to protect animals from ...

Tuk hunters face curbs to caribou hunt
CBC North - Canada
Some residents of remote northern communities in the NWT may have to go a lot farther out on the land to hunt the caribou they rely on for food. ...

Caribou in the News -- December 1, 2005

Species Take Care Of Each Other In Ecological Communities
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Computer Models Expose Humans As Main Cause Of Caribou Decline (September 3, 2004) -- If not for humans, the number of woodland caribou in northern Alberta ...

Inuit official says warming hurting subsistence Arctic dwellers
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA...
Brower said the issue is a complex one, because global warming is also having a detrimental affect on caribou and other wildlife on which subsistence users ...

National Park news
Jasper Booster - Alberta, Canada...
Earlier this month Parks Canada biologists completed caribou collaring operations for this fall, replacing old collars and bringing the total of collared ...

Caribou in the News -- November 10, 2005

US Won't Drill for Oil in Alaska
580 CFRA Radio - Ottawa,Ontario,Canada
Canadian Environment Minister Stephane Dion has said the plan will disrupt a caribou herd that migrates through the Yukon to the refuge. ...

Movie gives wildlife lovers a close view of caribou
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Rochester,NY,USA
What they see -- and what we are able to see, thanks to Allison's adept camera work -- is "a huge wave of life." Hundreds of caribou come streaming down the ...

Caribou in the News -- November 3, 2005

U.S. Senate deep-sixes ANWR protection motion
Last updated Nov 3 2005 11:53 AM CSTCBC News
An attempt to protect Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil exploration has failed in the U.S. Senate. An amendment to the budget bill that would.....

BC government faces dilemma over threatened tiny Mountain Caribou ...
Winnipeg Sun - Canada
VICTORIA (CP) - The BC government is facing a difficult decision on what to do about threatened caribou herds that have roamed the province's mountainous ...

Caribou in the News -- October 31, 2005

Here's a smattering of news and views on the Internet over the last couple of months...

Canadians Beg Americans to Stop Drilling in the Refuge
www. BeingCaribou.com The 2006 U.S. Budget contains language to open the Refuge to drilling. But the Budget is still not reconciled, the Refuge is still not open, the caribou reached the calving grounds to calve and rest and are now on their epic journey back through bug-infested tundra to...

Caribou herds may be abandoned
Globe and Mail - Canada VANCOUVER -- Some of the world's last herds of mountain caribou could be abandoned and left to die out under a provincial government action plan being studied ...

Opponents slam plan to allow off-road vehicle use along Dalton
Anchorage Daily News - Anchorage,AK,USA... a public comment session Tuesday argued that lifting the long-standing ban would damage the area's landscape, increase hunting pressure on caribou and moose ...

National Park news
Jasper Booster - Jasper,Alberta,Canada... The fall caribou count for South Jasper and the Whitegoat Wilderness area was recently completed. Parks biologists spotted 82 caribou ...

A lip-service energy policy
Minnesota Daily - Minneapolis,MN,USA... shipment. Of course, the only reason ANWR has not been opened yet is because environmentalists say we risk upsetting a few caribou. ...

Conference brings attention to global warming
KTUU - Anchorage,AK,USA... When herds of hoofed animals like caribou or reindeer roam the tundra, they of course have to eat. The Native people who hunt these ...

Protestors rally against ANWR drilling
Sun Star Newspaper - Fairbanks,AK,USA... at ANWR.". "Caribou may be at risk," said Frank Maxwell, a member of the Northern Alaska Environmental Center. "Their vegetation ...

Sierra Club criticizes Parks' caribou plan
Jasper Booster - Jasper,Alberta,Canada... Booster -- The Sierra Club of Canada is criticizing Parks Canada for taking inadequate measures in the restoration and protection of woodland caribou herds in ...

Stop Selling Our Heritage for Crooked Oil: Save Arctic Wildlife ...
Collective Bellaciao - Paris,France... Far from being the frozen "desert" some suggest, this is a rich, Serengeti-like haven of life: nursery for caribou, polar bears, walruses and millions of ...

‘Truth' About ANWR: Tell It All, Sarah James
Human Events - USA... A poor Alaskan native tribe, calling itself "the Caribou people," fights desperately to save the Porcupine Caribou herd, which roams the region, providing ...

Caribou in the News August 18, 2005

Lawsuit filed to help endangered caribou
Seattle Times - United States
SPOKANE -- Only a handful of endangered caribou remain in the remote Selkirk Mountains near the Canadian border, and a federal-court lawsuit filed yesterday ...

Conservation Groups Call on Forest Service to Save Woodland ...
Defenders of Wildlife (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
Washington, DC -- With the entire US population of Woodland Caribou down to as few as three animals, a coalition of conservation groups led by Defenders of ...

Caribou in the News -- August 5, 2005

Lingerie and caribou
Macleans - Toronto,ON,Canada
At first glance, the thrusting female bosom would seem to have nothing in common with a grazing woodland caribou. And yet, the two ...

Logging roads bad for caribou: outfitter
CBC - Newfoundland & Labrador - St. John's,Newfoundland,Canada
Outfitters say the island's caribou population is being disrupted by an increase in logging roads. Wayne Holloway, an outfitter ...

Minister to sign deal protecting caribou herd
Globe and Mail - Canada
The calving grounds for one of Canada's largest caribou herds will come under stronger protection today when Environment Minister Stéphane Dion signs an ...

Impact and benefit plan signed to expand Tuktut Nogait National ...
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada... "By expanding the park into the Sahtu Settlement Area, we are providing additional protection to the habitat of the Bluenose caribou herd, which is so ...

Caribou in the News -- July 31, 2005

Environment Minister to add 39 species for protection under the ...
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada... The Peary Caribou, the Dolphin-Union population of Barren-Ground Caribou and the moss, Porsild's Bryum, will also not be listed under SARA at this time, in ...

Caribou in the News -- June 30, 2005

Caribou recovery pleases biologist
Whitehorse Star Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada... team now focus on other methods of assisting the revival of the herd, such as the formation of an international agreement to manage the Chisana caribou, he said ...

Caribou in the News -- June 2, 2005

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Caribou in the News -- June 2, 2005

Province urged to protect mountain caribou habitat
Globe and Mail - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Vancouver -- Conservationists are calling on the BC government to ban logging in some parts of the province to save the endangered mountain caribou. ...

Hundreds Protest Canada's Forest Destruction At Global Forest ...
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada
Demonstrators, dressed as caribou, salmon and bears, highlighted the discrepancy between the summit's message of sustainability and the ongoing, widespread ...

Logging blamed for habitat loss
Vancouver Sun - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
VANCOUVER -- Conservationists are calling on the BC government to ban logging and road-building in parts of southeast BC to help save the mountain caribou. ...

Caribou in the News -- May 27, 2005

NTI calls for review of Peary caribou status
CBC North - Canada
IQALUIT -- Nunavut's power land claims organization is calling on federal Environment Minister Stephane Dion to reverse his decision on the Peary caribou. ...

Caribou in the News -- May 19, 2005

Parks officials say caribou not in danger
CBC Calgary - Calgary,Alberta,Canada
CALGARY -- Parks Canada officials say a small herd of endangered caribou is not at risk from a prescribed burn taking place near Banff. ...

Wildlife board clashes with minister over caribou designation
CBC North - Canada
IQALUIT -- The Federal environment minister has given the green light to list the Peary caribou as "endangered" under the Species at Risk Act ,despite ...

Caribou can get along with oil
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota,FL,USA
The notion that the American people are willing to suffer the rigors of an energy shortfall just to make the world safe for caribou is a tree-hugger's fantasy. ...

Caribou in the News May 3, 2005

Why are we talking about just ANWR?
USA Today - USA...
Though we're past the Arctic Circle, the land is alive: Bands of caribou forage in the April snow; a few miles back, we glimpsed a big grizzly, fresh out of ...

Our efforts can save the Arctic refuge
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA... Daily
I saw wonders. Fifty musk oxen grazed on diamond leaf willow. A caribou and her bouncing calf, separated from the herd of 180,000, wandered past. ...

Caribou in the News April 19, 2005

Labrador development could damage endangered caribou: Sierra Club
Canoe.ca - Canada...
The Sierra Club of Canada released a report Thursday that warns that development and habitat destruction are the primary threats to already endangered woodland caribou in the ...

Government of Yukon - Department of Environment - Publications...
Status of the Chisana Caribou Herd 2002. (24 p. booklet)
Report on the recoveryplan and herd management strategy for the Chisana Caribou of the ...

Caribou in the News April 7, 2005

Wrong approach, KATE POWER, New London - Letter
Concord Monitor - Concord,NH,USA
... drilling in ANWR is acceptable. ANWR is home to caribou, grizzlies, polar bears and millions of migratory birds. In addition to trucks ...

Living among Arctic's caribou herd a mystical experience
Birmingham News - Birmingham,AL,USA
He and other Gwich'in Athabascan Indians live in scattered villages inside the Arctic Circle and along the migration route of porcupine caribou. ...

Why Does God Hate Caribou? : Why, sure, all part of the imminent ...
Axis of Logic - Boston,MA,USA...
Apparently, God really doesn't give a damn about caribou and oceans and air quality and the future of humankind. God is not, as ...

GOHMERT SPEAKS OF OWN LEARNIING EXPERIENCE TO BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB
Tyler Morning Telegraph - Tyler,TX,USA...
the fish. It was predicted the Alaska pipeline would kill the 3,000 caribou there, but today there are 30,000 caribou. "We want ...

Caribou in the News April 4, 2005

Defiling nature's sanctuary
The Massachusets Daily Collegian - MA,USA...
But there is a problem. The polar bears, 13,000 caribou and thousands of other animals that inhabit this land are voiceless in their defense. ...

Researchers fear burn will threaten caribou
Rocky Mountain Outlook - Bow Valley,Alberta,Canada
A proposed prescribed fire in the vicinity of the known home range of Banff 's threatened caribou may prove to be a test case for how Parks Canada deals with ...

Liberals distort facts, use ANWR as political tool
Johns Hopkins News-Letter - Baltimore,MD,USA...
The indigenous Caribou, the species environmentalists claim will be hurt by drilling, seem to have little problem with drilling. ...

Caribou in the News March 24, 2005

This Land Is Whose Land?
ChristianityToday.com - USA
An impassioned plea on behalf of the "caribou people" in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the land they have inhabited for nearly 20,000 years. ...

Being Caribou... Deep snow, early breakup, and spring floods are just some of the factors that candelay this tough stage of the Porcupine Caribou Herd's annual journey. ...

Caribou in the News March 17, 2005

Caribou-Hoo-Hoo
Grist Magazine - Seattle, WA, USA By Amanda Griscom Little.
In a crushing blow to those who have long fought to preserve the unspoiled Alaskan wildland, the Senate has voted...

Canfor limits Alberta logging on caribou concerns
Reuters AlertNet - London, England, UK
Environmentalists hailed a decision by Canfor Corp on Thursday to defer logging in a region of Alberta's foothills that is home to a threatened caribou herd. The company has agreed ...

Caribou in the News March 11, 2005

Highway becomes home for caribou herd
CBC - Newfoundland & Labrador - St. John's,Newfoundland,Canada
DEER LAKE -- An unusual problem has made driving along the highway near Deer Lake more difficult than usual: a large herd of caribou. ...

Logjam Beginning to Shift in Alberta Foothills
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada
Canfor Defers Logging in Critical Caribou Habitat
VANCOUVER, March 9 /CNW/ - Canfor, one of the largest logging companies in Canada, has committed to defer ...

Last Chance for American Caribou
E/The Environmental Magazine - Norwalk,CT,USA
by Alison Grey.
With numbers dwindling to around 34 animals, the South Selkirk mountain caribou herd is getting close to disappearing forever. ...

Caribou in the News

Outfitter slams GNWT caribou plan CBC North - Canada
YELLOWKNIFE - A northern outfitter is calling on the NWT government to re-write the Bathurst caribou management plan, saying there are thousands more caribou ...

Caribou News week of February 20

ALASKA CARIBOU ANNUAL SURVEY AND INVENTORY FEDERAL AID PERFORMANCE REPORT A pdf document with status of Alaska herds...

Oxen, caribou and bears spark "Oh, my"s about oil Pitt News - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
Photos taken in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge of musk oxen, grizzly bears and thousands of caribou slid across the screen at Wednesday's Free the Planet ...

Drilling in Alaska too damaging Daily Campus (subscription) - Storrs,CT,USA... The exotic wildlife found there include the endangered musk ox (a survivor of the last Ice Age), polar bears, caribou and snow geese, to name a few. ...

Drilling in the Arctic Refuge Just Doesn't Make Sense The Baltimore Chronicle - Baltimore,MD,USA... Caribou, polar bears, musk oxen, and more than 200 species of migratory birds depend on the pristine environment of the Arctic Refuge. ...

Caribou plan panned in NWT assembly CBC North - CanadaYELLOWKNIFE - A new plan to regulate hunting of the Bathurst caribou herd is drawing fire in the Northwest Territories legislature. ...

Statue of caribou to be placed downtown Bangor Daily News - Bangor,ME,USACARIBOU - A life-size, 8-foot-tall, 700-pound bronze woodland caribou will be placed in the Caribou downtown next summer to enhance the revitalization of the ...

Gwich'in plead to preserve caribou refuge KTUU - Anchorage,AK,USA... What drew people here was a documentary by the National Film Board of Canada, about the Porcupine caribou herd, which for thousands of years has conducted an ...

Changes to Nelchina hunt proposed Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Fairbanks,AK,USA... an overhaul of rules in Nelchina so that any state resident will be able to subsistence hunt in areas north and east of Anchorage for caribou and moose. ...

Caribou in the News Feb

Minnesota Daily : Alaska residents work to save refuge

Saskatoon StarPhoenix - Ecologist says snowmobile trail will hurt already threatened caribou species

CBC - Newfoundland & Labrador: Caribou population drop worries scientists

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