Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Caribou News: Sept.26, 2006

Hunting banned for Cape Bathurst caribou
CBC North - Canada
The Tuktoyaktuk Hunters and Trappers Committee voted in favour of a two-year hunting ban for the
Cape Bathurst caribou herd at a meeting in the community ...

NWT caribou herd drops by 60,000 since 2003
CBC.ca - Alberta, Canada
The latest count of the largest caribou herd in the
Northwest Territories shows it has shrunk to less than a third of the size it was 20 years ago. ...

Protect caribou by killing logging not wolves: group
Fort Frances Times - ON, Canada
OTTAWA — Environmentalists are slamming a proposal to protect British Columbia’s dwindling population of mountain caribou by killing wolves and cougars. ...