Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Caribou news notes June 09

Drilling foes gather in Arctic Village
Bellingham Herald - Bellingham,WA,USA
The group said threats to the caribou calving grounds was a threat to the heart of their people, who rely on caribou for subsistence hunting.
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Around Nunavut
Nunatsiaq News - Iqaluit,Nunavut,Canada
Williams noted that caribou meat is flown daily into Iqaluit from the Kivalliq because caribou are now hard to find in south Baffin. ...
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Wildsight's 10 Ways to Celebrate Our Environment
Wildsight - Kimberley,BC,Canada
2) All in favour of Mountain Caribou? Raise your right foot. Slow down for the mountain caribou when you are driving on Highway 3. ...
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Michael's Meanderings: The Porcupine River
By Meandering Michael
The Porcupine isn't just any river; it constitutes a large part of the migration route for the Porcupine Caribou herd (hence the name of the herd). The herd winters in the NWT and makes its way to the North Slope of Alaska every spring ...
Michael's Meanderings - http://michaelpealow.blogspot.com/

Efforts to protect caribou worthwhile
Timmins Daily Press - Timmins,Ontario,Canada
The conservation of the noble caribou should not be questioned, for it may be the only common denominator between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities. ...
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Three Students Named Vanier Scholars | University of Guelph
"My goals are to provide decision-makers with predictive tools for caribou conservation while promoting a mechanistic cognitive approach to the study of animal movement," said Avgar. "The Vanier award will go a long way in providing me ...
University of Guelph News - http://www.uoguelph.ca/news/


Earth belongs to the animals too
Times and Transcript - Moncton,New Brunswick,Canada
While watching a herd of caribou running freely I knew that, according to the unwritten, unofficial rules of film making, something was going to go wrong. ...
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Conservationists say Canada's Species at Risk Act isn't working
Metro Canada - Vancouver - Vancouver,Canada
She says other species like the polar bear, northern spotted owl and boreal woodland caribou continue to disappear with little help from the federal ...
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Canada's caribou face growing risk | Environment | Reuters
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's 36000-strong population of woodland caribou will shrink over the next century and those animals that live in areas heavy in ...