Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Caribou News backlog!

Eco groups back First Nations call to protect boreal caribou
Montreal Gazette
They argue the provincial government has not done enough to halt the decline of the herds, ignoring a recommendation in 2005 from its own woodland caribou ...
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 Caribou protection a priority
Edmonton Journal
Our member companies are committed to protecting Alberta's wildlife, including the caribou. Through our involvement with the Alberta Caribou Committee, ...
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 Mining, logging halt urged to help caribou recover
Winnipeg Free Press
The fire burned about 55000 hectares north of Cranberry Portage and destroyed a large part of the Kississing-Naosap caribou herd's range, ...
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Revised NWT caribou plan presented
CBC.ca
The NWT government banned hunting of the Bathurst caribou herd in the territory's North Slave region on Jan. 1. The ban remains in place while officials ...
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Alaska judge blocks 1000 caribou hunting permits
Anchorage Daily News
AP ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A judge in Kenai has blocked the state from issuing an extra 1000 subsistence hunting permits to take caribou in the Nelchina herd ...
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Alaska: Caribou Commons Or America's Lost Ace?
Forbes
In this case, this new Alaska could be labeled "the caribou commons." By now it's clear that the Great Plains region has value well beyond accommodating ...
 1 day hunting season for Fortymile caribou herd
Anchorage Daily News
That's how long the caribou hunting season along Steese highway will last this summer. In an effort to avoid an over harvest of the Fortymile caribou herd, ...
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In Nelchina Basin, village caribou hunts face shutdown
Alaska Dispatch
With less than two weeks before fall caribou and moose hunts are scheduled to begin, questions remain about whether Alaskans who were granted 2010 permits ...
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Alberta First Nations urge caribou protection
CBC.ca
Canada's declining herds of woodland caribou will survive only if governments protect large tracts of northern forest from oil and gas and other development ...
See all stories on this topic »Declining Unimak Island caribou have disappeared and reappeared before
Alaska Dispatch
The season of rebirth has not been a good one for the caribou of Unimak Island or the biologists who study them. The biologists engaged in trying to ...
See all stories on this topic »Outfitter calls for compensation for travel to Bathurst Caribou hearings
HQ Yellowknife
Yellowknife, NWT - Groups concerned about the proposed plan to manage the Bathurst Caribou herd will make the trip to Behchoko next month to present their ...
See all stories on this topic »Canada needs more, bigger parks to protect wildlife: study
AFP
As examples, the report blamed "habitat fragmentation" for grizzly bear deaths and for the decline of woodland caribou in Banff National Park until the last ...
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