Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Caribou in the News - December 19, 2006

Naturalist sees red in reindeer myths
Patriot-News - Harrisburg,PA,USA
... Ranger. The scientific name for reindeer, or caribou, is
Rangifer tarandus. However, Clement Clark Moore, Henry Livingston Jr. or ...

Art With Heart Student Effort to Protect Ontario's Caribou
Guelph Tribune - Guelph,ON,Canada
A class of Grade 4 students from St. Joseph school is hoping to make a
difference for Ontario's caribou population. The students ...

Clock is ticking for caribou
Now Toronto - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
... animals. But the woodland caribou, which has already been pushed
out of 40 per cent of its range in the province, doesn't have time. ...

Friday, December 15, 2006

Caribou in the News - December 14, 2006

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Woodland caribou headed for extinction: activists
Fort Frances Times - ON, Canada
... dressed as Santa Claus, descended on the Ontario legislature
yesterday to warn about the dwindling ranks of a long-time Christmas
fixture: the woodland caribou ...

Lingerie catalogue changes paper to help save caribou
Regina Leader-Post - Regina,Saskatchewan,Canada
MONTREAL -- A two-year campaign by environmental activists that
pitted beautiful women in sexy lingerie against photos of denuded boreal
forest ended Wednesday ...

Milwaukee Zoo Animals Dead After Eating Yew
CBS 5 - Green Bay - WI
(AP) MILWAUKEE A moose, caribou and American elk died at the
Milwaukee County Zoo after being mistakenly fed donated yew -- a
plant that can be poisonous to ...

Activists want caribou habitat protected
Thunder Bay's Source - Thunder Bay,Ontario,Canada
Environmental activists visited the Ontario legislature Thursday
to raise awareness of a threat to the province's population of
woodland caribou. ...

Victoria's Secret slips into green for caribou
Montreal Gazette - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
... a retail giant that publishes 350 million Victoria's Secret catalogues
a year, will no longer use suppliers who obtain paper from any caribou
habitat in Canada ...

Caribou plan announced
The Spokesman Review - Spokane,WA,USA
British Columbia is looking to transplant more caribou and
build newborn calf protection pens in hopes of boosting endangered
caribou herds that roam the ...

Alberta: Woodland Caribou Sacrificed as Government Forces ...
Forest NewsWatch.com (subscription) - Montreal,QC,Canada
... that the Alberta Government is directing forestry companies to commence
liquidation of pine forest in critical habitat of mountain woodland caribou as part of ...

Hunting restrictions considered to save NWT caribou herd
CBC North - Canada
... Ernie Campbell says restricting hunting along the roadsides in the Bathurst range would address the issue of meat wastage when caribou are wounded but not ...