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Activities: French translations courtesy Parks Canada!!

Barren-ground caribou migration
Bioaccumulation: the story of time
Bot fly boogie
Build-a-caribou / Fabrication d’un caribou
Caribou bingo
Caribou and mammoth together
Caribou and the Internet
Caribou need a home, too! / Les caribous ont eux aussi besoin d’un espace!
Checks and balances
Co-management role play
Dilemmas caribou style / Les dilemmes à la mode des caribous
First Peoples stories about caribou
Likin’ lichen
Song for a caribou / Chanson pour un caribou
Symbolic caribou
What is a caribou herd?
Ya gotta lichen caribou

CARC Northern Perspectives: Caribou topic of current issue

The latest from the Canadian Arctic Resources Committee focuses on caribou. Here's the link:

CARC_Northrn_Perspectives_spring_07.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Excerpt from the first article "What Price Caribou?"

The caribou has much to recommend it as a national
symbol. Although it is mostly found in the vast herds of
barren-ground caribou that roam the territories
and northern parts of some provinces, there are
also small populations of woodland caribou
scattered across the country. It has a regal
bearing and imposing appearance, but is a
peaceful vegetarian. As already noted, it is primarily
an animal of the north, and Canadians,
although concentrated heavily in the southern
sun-belt of the country, like to think of
themselves as northern. There is, however, one
problem with identifying too strongly with the caribou
as a national symbol: its numbers appear to be dwindling.

Other articles include:
Position of Caribou in the North: Overview
Industry and Caribou: Can They Co-Exist?
Articles on these herds: Bathurst, Fortymile, Porcupine, Peary

Travelling Caribou Art Exhibit

Hello

Jasper National Park celebrates its Centennial this year and at the same time it is feared that there is less than 100 Caribou left in the Park...

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In 2005 a call was put out to artists across Canada to build a traveling (migrating) art exhibition - theme Caribou. The show (herd) is now together and opens in the Buffalo Nations Museum in Banff on August 1 2007 - Albertas Heritage Day.

The hope is that this project as it travels will educate viewers about the need to keep wild places wild for the next centuries...it is called TUKTU PRAYERS. Tuktu is inuit for Caribou and the prayer is that there will be caribou for the next century.

www.tuktuprayers.com tells you more.

Please link us to your site - there are two artists from Whitehorse in the exhibition - Jane Isakson and Joyce Majiski.

It would be nice to tell you local newspaper of the evolution of the show - for those local artists. If you have that contact information I would appreciate it.

Marianne Garrah

Caribou News April 17, 2007

Author accuses government of mismanaging caribou herds
Western Star - Corner Brook,Newfoundland,Canada
He believes the government wants to play down the relationship between the
two because they’re guilty of mismanaging the caribou herds. ...

Caribou News April 10, 2007

Caribou threat
Western Star - Corner Brook,Newfoundland,Canada
HOWLEY If no action is taken to curb the rise of the eastern coyote population, outfitter Ray Broughton fears that woodland caribou are doomed. ...
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Can snowmobilers and caribou herds share the same terrain?
Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
So everyone was worried when the Mountain Caribou Science Team, a provincially assembled group charged with suggesting a plan to conserve threatened ...
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Time to get down to work
Western Star - Corner Brook,Newfoundland,Canada
The outfitting industry believes that coyotes are wreaking havoc on the woodland caribou herds of the province. There are calls for action on the issue, ...
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Global Warming Bad? Not For Canada
Post Chronicle - USA
But the report released last Friday by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change also predicts a decline in Arctic species like caribou, ...
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Caribou in the News - April 3, 2007

Whales, caribou and gold-plated spurs along eastern leg of NL is ...Canoe.ca - Canada
Proceed with caution, as you may see caribou from the Avalon Wilderness Reserve trying to cross the road, especially during their annual migration in spring ...
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Wildlife officers find caribou chasers on YouTube
CBC - Newfoundland & Labrador - St. John's,Newfoundland,Canada
An investigation is being launched into a group of snowmobilers who allegedly chased a herd of caribou, after wildlife officers in Yellowknife received a ...
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Funding aims to help mountain caribou
Kootenay News Advertiser - Kootenay,British Columbia,Canada
"We have worked very hard with the BCSF to develop a new approach to dealing with mountain caribou," Bell said. He commends the federation for stepping up ...
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Where the Caribou Roam
The Daily Score - San Mateo,CA,USA
As part of our research on wildlife, Sightline monitors the population of the Selkirk caribou herd, the last population of caribou to venture south of the ...
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Snowmobilers rescued by local; weekly paper closes its doors

ChronicleHerald.ca - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada
Eric Patey told the Independent that he has seen caribou trapped in heavy snow killed by coyotes. Patey says that the caribou will soon be wiped out. ...
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Whales, caribou and gold-plated spurs along eastern leg of NL is ...
Montreal Gazette (subscription) - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
... John's to Portugal Cove South spans 140 kilometres, winding through farms, fishing villages, rock beaches and vast inland barrens where caribou wander. ...
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Labrador’s species at risk
Labradorian - Happy Valley / Goose Bay,Newfoundland,Canada
Species that are listed across Canada (eg Boreal Population of Woodland Caribou) are afforded protection federally under SARA. Although Woodland Caribou ...
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Judge stops Alaska from offering a wolf 'bounty'
The new incentive program was called a controlled effort to reach the state’s management objectives and boost moose and caribou numbers in five specific areas. Friday’s ruling does not affect the predator control effort under which more ...
Friends of Animals - http://www.friendsofanimals.org/

We Live in a Beautiful World

By justin
On the very first episode (From Pole to Pole, aired last Sunday) the film team captured wolves chasing a herd of caribou tens of thousands strong across the frozen tundra of Canada. The film crew captured the entire pursuit from a new