Caribou News Dec 23, 2008

HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!

Eight men out!
Toronto Sun - Ontario, Canada
The nearest herds to the North Pole are Peary caribou, among the tiniest of their kind. (Caribou is the same species, rangifer tarandus, as the reindeer of ...
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Santa's reindeer started with poem
Danbury News Times - Danbury,CT,USA
Santa Claus never even had reindeer (or even a sleigh) Reindeer (sometimes called caribou, although true caribou are a bit bigger) have been around for a ...
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SBritish Columbia's Wolf Kill Folly
Pacific Free Press - Victoria,BC,Canada
by Chris Darimont & Chris Genovali With dismay we read Larry Pynn's article (Wolves killed to protect caribou, Dec. 15) regarding the BC government's ...
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Santa's hooved helpers endangered
Youth Radio.us - Houston,Texas,USA
One of the many species of reindeer at threat is the mountain caribou. Mountain caribou are the southernmost of all types of reindeer and inhabit British ...
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OTUS THE HEAD CAT : In truth, the song should go Rudolph, the ...
Arkansas Democrat Gazette - AR,USA
It is the cruel lesson of Rudolph the red-nosed caribou. Rudolph was, in fact, a caribou. Having been born on the southern fringes of Baffin Island, ...
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BONUS!! CHISANA CARIBOU HERD LINKS

Wrangell- St.Elias NP & P | Murie Science & Learning Center ... Selected Rare Vascular Plant Taxa Found throughout Alaska; The Decline of the Chisana Caribou Herd: Assessing Population Dynamics and Recovery Efforts ...

Canadian Web Directory at Webpedia.ca Conservation experiment to preserve the Chisana caribou herd. Includes a daily journal, photos and educational information. » Department of Environment ...

Yukon Wildlife Preserve Most notably among these projects and respecting the YWP needs, Rick was the project manager of the international Chisana herd caribou recovery program ...

Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge Boat ramps are located at Chisana River, 1/4-mile .... Caribou from two seperate . herds use the refuge. during their migration. between wintering areas and ...

Full text of "In the Alaska-Yukon gamelands;" Of interest in the present connection is the evidence that the herds of migratory caribou that cross the Yukon River in the vicinity of Fairbanka belong to ...

Caribou News December 15, 2008

Wolves killed to protect caribou Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada The BC government killed 24 wolves over the past year to save mountain caribou but has so far not met its commitment to protect additional forestlands for ... See all stories on this topic

Dwindling of caribou herd remains a mystery StarPhoenix - Saskatoon,Saskatchewan,Canada How can thousands of barren ground caribou just vanish? Some believe the caribou were spooked by mining exploration and industry up north, chasing them away ... See all stories on this topic

BC's quiet war on wolves Globe and Mail - Canada Not surprisingly, the radio study has shown that wolves and caribou often cross each other's tracks. It isn't known, however, how often wolves actually kill ... See all stories on this topic

British Columbia: Killing Wild Horses for Wolf Bait Pacific Free Press - Victoria,BC,Canada Commonsense tells us that to save the caribou and other species we have to protect where they live without interference from overt human activity. ... See all stories on this topic

Pittsburgh Post Gazette This week, parents with young children are likely to be quizzed ... Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA In North America caribou occur almost exclusively in Canada and Alaska. European reindeer roam northern Scandinavia and Russia. Much of the European herd, ... See all stories on this topic Clearcut raises concerns for threatened caribou Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada "It's to the point these caribou are probably going to become extinct in this area." West Moberly land-use manager Bruce Muir said the Ministry of Energy, ... See all stories on this topic

Fooled by Nature - Caribou Migration By admin On Animal Planet’s “Fooled by Nature,” this pesky bloodsucking creature heavily influences the migration of the caribou. Caribou will go miles out of their way just to avoid the stinging bites of the mosquito. Duration : 0:2:1 ... Politics and Culture - http://www.assess.asia/

Caribou News Dec 9, 2008

Global Warming: Point Of No Return For The Arctic? Free Internet Press - New York,NY,USA Temperatures in the Arctic are rising much faster than elsewhere in the world. Researchers now say it may be the result of a dramatic shift in global ... See all stories on this topic

No Stevens, no drilling? Indian Country Today - Canastota,NY,USA The 123000 caribou feed the Gwich’in Nation as well as the Inupiat peoples. The Gwich’in are caribou people, and have lived off the Porcupine Caribou herd ... See all stories on this topic Survey suggests another caribou herd in steep decline CTV.ca - Canada A new study of one of Canada's largest caribou herds seems to confirm fears that it is undergoing a steep and mysterious decline. The Beverly caribou herd, ... See all stories on this topic British Columbia: Killing Wildlife to "Save" Wildlife Pacific Free Press - Victoria,BC,Canada It's part of a program to increase the population of endangered mountain caribou. In addition, the Ministry of Forests has been paying aboriginal people to ... See all stories on this topic Canadian native leader warns climate conference about changes in ... Erasmus says once abundant herds of caribou are dwindling, rivers are running lower and the ice in the north is too thin to hunt on.Erasmus has raised his concerns in recent days on the sidelines of a UN climate conference under way in ... Oilweek Online - http://www.oilweek.com/

Native hunters: Climate is thinning caribou herds

By ARTHUR MAX, Associated Press Writer Arthur Max, Associated Press Writer 2 hrs 24 mins ago

POZNAN, Poland – Chief Bill Erasmus of the Dene nation in northern Canada brought a stark warning about the climate crisis: The once abundant herds of caribou are dwindling, rivers are running lower and the ice is too thin to hunt on.

Erasmus raised his concerns in recent days on the sidelines of a U.N. climate conference, seeking to ensure that North America's indigenous peoples are not left out in the cold when it comes to any global warming negotiations.

Erasmus, the 54-year-old elected leader of 30,000 native Americans in Canada, and representatives of other indigenous peoples met with the U.N's top climate official, Yvo de Boer, and have lobbied national delegations to recognize them as an "expert group" that can participate in the talks like other nongovernment organizations.

"We bring our traditional knowledge to the table that other people don't have," he said.

Nearly 11,000 national and environmental delegates from 190 countries are negotiating a treaty to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which regulates emissions of carbon dioxide that scientists blame for global warming. The protocol expires in 2012.

The alliance of native peoples include groups from the forests of Borneo to the depths of the Amazon.

De Boer said he advised the alliance to draw up a proposal and muster support among the national delegations to have their group approved by the countries involved in the talks.

"To give indigenous people and local communities a voice in these discussions is very important," said Kim Carstensen, the climate change director for WWF International.

Erasmus, from Yellow Knife in Canada's Northwest Territories about 300 miles (480 kilometers) south of the Arctic Circle, brings firsthand experience of climate change.

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he caribou, or reindeer, herds are declining across North America and northern Europe, he said.

"We can't hunt because the ice is not frozen yet. Our hunters are falling through the ice, and lives are being lost," Erasmus told The Associated Press. This winter the normally dry area has been covered by thick, wet snow, further hampering hunting, he said.

Petroleum extraction from the Canadian tar sands is draining the underground water table and reducing the flow of the rivers northward, and the effects are felt hundreds of miles away, he said.

He is concerned that warmer winters will mean less luxurious fur on the muskrat and beaver that his people sell.

Nearly 40 years ago, he said, tribal elders noticed changes in the annual migrations of animals. The weather, which they could forecast three weeks in advance from animal behavior and the appearance of the sunsets, is now unpredictable.

Scientists have warned that conditions in the Arctic are a barometer of climate change. The region is warming faster than more temperate zones, and the seas are ice-free for longer periods. The melting of the permafrost threatens to release stored methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, U.N. scientists have reported.