Friday, July 24, 2009

Caribou catch-up...lots of news

Nfld. government moves to stem caribou decline
Globe and Mail - Canada
The government of Newfoundland and Labrador will spend $15.3-million over the next five years developing a strategy to address declining caribou herds. ...
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Bathurst caribou herd shrinks further: NWT survey
CBC.ca - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Final counts from the NWT's Bathurst caribou herd survey will be released in September. Results from a similar survey of the Cape Bathurst, and Bluenose ...
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Labrador caribou census planned for 2010
Wildlife officials for Newfoundland and Labrador will conduct a count of the George River caribou herd in Labrador next year.

When the caribou's in danger, we are too! Video! - Care2 News Network
By Cher C.
As development continues to sprawl further northward, Woodland caribou are disappearing from the Boreal forest. Logging, road-building and other forms of development such as mining and oil and gas development, are driving the caribou's ...
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First ever worldwide census of caribou and reindeer reveals a ...
Caribou and reindeer harassed by insects do not consume normal levels of food and cant put on the required weight to get them through an Arctic winter ...

Caribou herds worldwide experiencing serious decline Study
Calgary Herald. The online source for Calgary news, business, sports, entertainment, classified ads, horoscopes, weather, local news and more.,A Canadian ...
Caribou Populations See Rapid Decline Discovery News
In Alaska, Canada, Greenland and other Arctic regions, people depend on caribou and reindeer as both a food source and a spiritual anchor.

Lake yields hints of hunters past
London Free Press - Canada
The discovery is definitive evidence hunters once migrated with caribou here several thousand years ago. It's the first evidence of human activity preserved ...
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Climate change scientists “part of the problem”
Nunatsiaq News - Iqaluit,Nunavut,Canada
Scientists need to find ways to lower their greenhouse gas emissions when they work in the Arctic, says caribou researcher Ryan Brook from the University of ...
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Ancient life evidence found in Lake Huron
United Press International - USA
University of Michigan researchers, who made the discovery, said the ruins are of caribou-hunting structures and camps used by the early hunters of the ...
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Diet Food Delivered Chisana Alaska
If we changed the diet too quickly, the caribou could get bloated or diarrhea, and even die from The Chisana is the only woodland caribou herd in Alaska. ...