Friday, October 23, 2009

Caribou News

The Political Carnival: ANWR debate will heat up as caribou dwindle
By GottaLaff
Unusual freezing rains in autumn are locking lichen, the caribou's winter forage, under impenetrable ice sheets. This was the documented cause in the late 1990s of the near-extinction of the 50000-strong Peary caribou subspecies on ...
The Political Carnival - http://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/
Reaction mixed to Yukon caribou hunting rules - Hymoo (Beta Version)
By Bluto
At least one Yukon aboriginal leader is praising new hunting restrictions that aim to protect the Porcupine caribou herd, but hunters from the.
Hymoo (Beta Version) - http://www.hymoo.com/
For some caribou herds, news is good « Travelling and the American Man
By fionatan
Alaska's two largest caribou herds, the Western Arctic and Porcupine herds, appear to follow the Arctic trend of declining population, and the Mulchatna herd west of Anchorage is especially hard hit. ...
Travelling and the American Man - http://godsunfoldingplan.org/community/fionatan/
Caribou decline
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
I read the article on Oct. 5 by Charles J. Hanley about caribou herds across the Arctic and how the herds are in decline. Biologists in the Eurasian Arctic ...
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REINDEER HERDS UNDER THREAT
UK Express
Scientist Liv Solveig Vors, who is studying the deer, called caribou in North America, said climate change was to blame. Global warming has boosted ...
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For some caribou herds, news is good
TheNewsTribune.com
By SEAN COCKERHAM Alaska's two largest caribou herds, the Western Arctic and Porcupine herds, appear to follow the Arctic trend of declining population, ...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

IPY Caribou - Home

The Arctic Peoples, Culture, Resilience and Caribou IPY project has just launched its website. Basic information on the project is available now and more content will be loaded over the coming months

The site can be viewed at:

Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Mighty caribou herds dwindle, warming blamed

Mighty caribou herds dwindle, warming blamed
Kansas City Star
By CHARLES J. HANLEY AP Special Correspondent Here on the endlessly rolling and tussocky terrain of northwest Canada, where man has hunted caribou since the ...
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