Caribou News august 2011

Arctic caribou herds may have stopped decline: biologist
CTV.ca
Two years ago scientists feared northern caribou were the new cod — once-teeming stocks of wildlife that had sustained entire cultures but were at the edge of collapse. Now, as scientists from around the world gather in Yellowknife to compare notes, ...
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Yukon to test for radiation in caribou herd CBC.ca Researchers plan to test for radiation in the Porcupine Caribou Herd following Japan's nuclear disaster earlier this year.Researchers plan to test for radiation in the Porcupine Caribou Herd following Japan's nuclear disaster earlier this year. ... See all stories on this topic »

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Salmon, caribou to be tested for radiation from Japanese reactor
Montreal Gazette
Meanwhile, Yukon's Department of Health also plans to test the Porcupine caribou herd for radiation from the reactor meltdown. "There is no reason to believe any significant contamination from radiation has occurred," said Brendan Hanley, chief medical ...
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Forestry deal threatens caribou: critics
FFWD
A new 20-year agreement between the provincial government and Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries further threatens Alberta's dwindling woodland caribou population, warn conservationists. The Forest Management Agreement, finalized in mid-July, ...
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Environmental groups pan caribou recovery plan
CBC.ca
Beginning of Story Content Environmental groups say the federal government plans to kill wolves to save threatened woodland caribou herds instead of taking measures to protect habitat from increased industrial development in northern Alberta. ...
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Trails, roads put caribou at greater risk: study
Calgary Herald
By Cathy Ellis, For The Calgary Herald August 26, 2011 Recreational trails and roads are giving wolves easy access into critical woodland caribou habitat, where the cunning carnivores are hunting struggling herds, a new study has found. ...
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Caribou Recovery Strategy - A Major Step Forward CNW Group (press release) 26, 2011 /CNW/ - The draft recovery strategy released today is a major step forward for the conservation of boreal caribou and has potential to benefit much of Canada's boreal forest and the wildlife that depends on it; however, the plan needs to be ... See all stories on this topic »

Caribou conference frustrates Yukon participant CBC.ca Beginning of Story Content The chair of a Caribou Management Board in Yukon says four days of meetings with researchers, hunters and other experts didn't answer big questions about the future of caribou herds, especially as northern resources are ... See all stories on this topic »   North American caribou herds back from the brink, scientists say Anchorage Daily News Circumpolar scientists gathered for the 2011 Arctic Ungulate Conference in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, are celebrating a surprisingly quick turnaround in what as recently as two years ago looked like a collapse in Canadian caribou herds ... See all stories on this topic » Alberta's woodland caribou now endangered, scientists say Peace River Record Gazette Stuart Dryden/QMI Alberta scientists have advised the woodland caribou species be downgraded from threatened to endangered due to its continuous and rapid decline over the past several years. By Jeff Blay, Record-Gazette Alberta's woodland caribou ... See all stories on this topic » Cod and Caribou | Royal Ontario Museum | Toronto By Royal Ontario Museum Cod and Caribou – good management, natural resiliency or media headlines. by Royal Ontario Museum on August 22, 2011. A fish swimming in blue water. Cod. Photo by *Saipal. Flickr Creative Commons. By Dave Ireland, Managing Director, ... Royal Ontario Museum Blog Same scientists who said global warming was wiping out caribou now ... By BC Blue If you want an example of how the phony environmental movement sucks and blows at the same time and will unabashedly contradict itself, check out this article on the Canadian caribou from the Canadian Press here. ... BC Blue: One BC Conservative's...

Caribou News August 2011

Caribou hunting on hold in Labrador The Telegram The provincial Department of Environment and Conservation is postponing the opening of the caribou hunting season in Labrador, with no date for when hunting caribou might be allowed again. The season was scheduled to begin Aug. 10. ... See all stories on this topic »

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Where the caribou roam
Vancouver Sun
Most Canadians will never see one in real life, but everyone who has ever held a 25-cent coin knows what caribou look like. While the image on the Canadian quarter is not going anywhere, the same can't be said of the thundering herds of caribou that ...See all stories on this topic »

Labrador caribou hunt indefinitely postponed Globe and Mail Grappling with the precipitous decline of a once-enormous caribou herd, the government of Newfoundland and Labrador has postponed this year's hunt while it tries to figure out how many animals are left. For decades, huge numbers of George River caribou ... See all stories on this topic »

Globe and Mail

Begin woodland caribou protection strategy: Judge
Fort McMurray Today
A federal judge has questioned just how the federal environment minister could conclude there is no imminent threat to the endangered woodland caribou even when its own reports outline the threats. That statement was posed late last week by Judge Paul ...
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Nakusp council hears VWS caribou park presentation
BCLocalNews
By Staff Writer - Arrow Lakes News Efforts to secure a network of wilderness areas in the region for Mountain Caribou and other species got a closer look from the Nakusp Village Council. Anne Sherrod, chair of the Valhalla Wilderness Society, ...See all stories on this topic »

 Court overturns Minister's decision not to recommend emergency ...
EDMONTON, July 29, 2011 — The federal Environment Minister's "out of the blue" decision not to recommend emergency protection for woodland caribou in northeastern Alberta ignored scientific evidence and must be set aside, ...
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BC to relocate 40 caribou to save dwindling herd
CBC.ca
Beginning of Story Content The BC government wants to relocate caribou from northern BC to bolster a dwindling herd in the Kootenays that's in danger of being wiped out. The Ministry of Forests has a plan to move 40 caribou from a healthy herd in the ...See all stories on this topic »

War of words erupts over how best to save Woodland Caribou
Daily Miner and News
By the end of summer, the federal government is expected to deliver a plan on preserving woodland caribou populations in the Boreal forest but opinions on land use between environmentalists and the forestry industry differ greatly on what form ...See all stories on this topic »

Thelon Expedition: Caribou and the Dene | Cool Green Science: The ...
They sighted in the far distance a herd, the dogs surged forward, Joseph lost his grip on the sled. When he tumbled on to the snow, his dad kept going ...
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 Court tells feds endangered caribou in oilsands needs another look ...
By Bob Weber
EDMONTON — The federal government has been ordered to revisit its refusal to issue an emergency order that would protect habitat for endangered caribou in Alberta's oilsands region. And a Federal Court judge says Environment Minister ...
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Caribou in the News July 2011

No home on the range for caribou
Vancouver Sun
By Larry Pynn, Vancouver Sun July 14, 2011 An expert panel of scientists warns that woodland caribou have vanished from half their historic range and that the species is increasingly at risk from logging and resource extraction. ...
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Experts urge protected areas to save Canada caribou (AFP) | Yahoo ...
AFP - Canada needs to create large protected areas of woodlands to help save caribou from the threat of extinction, scientists and environmentalists said ...
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William & Kate Arrive In LA Today! So Long Canada & Caribou Meat…Hello Celebs ...
Hollywood Life
Prince William and Kate will leave Calgary this afternoon, marking the end of their nine-day Canadian tour, and arrive in Los Angeles at 3:30 pm to kick off a whirlwind three-day visit to California. Once the arrivals arrive, they'll be met by at the ...
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Wildlife fears over British billionaire's plans for Arctic mega-mine Sydney Morning Herald WWF say polar bears, as well as arctic foxes, caribou, narwhals and whales will be put in danger as a result of the planned mine. Photo: Reuters BRITAIN'S richest man is planning a giant new open-cut mine 480 kilometres inside the Arctic Circle in a ... See all stories on this topic »

Sydney Morning Herald

Oilsands development will wipe out woodland caribou in a few years, expert says Vancouver Sun By Codi Wilson, Postmedia News June 30, 2011 EDMONTON - The province's new plan to preserve the woodland caribou falls short of saving the threatened species from extinction, environmental experts say. Over the last decade, woodland caribou populations ... See all stories on this topic »

Oilsands will kill off caribou herds: expert Edmonton Journal By Codi Wilson, Edmonton Journal July 2, 2011 An environmental group warns caribou populations could be gone from the province in the next 40 years unless they are protected. The province's new plan to preserve the woodland caribou falls short of ... See all stories on this topic »

Greatest Threat to Caribou Herd in Canada Isn't From Wolves New York Times By NICHOLAS BAKALAR Humans are a much bigger problem than wolves for a caribou herd in the oil sands area of Alberta, Canada, scientists reported last week in Frontiers in Ecology. BEHAVIORAL CLUES Hormone levels in caribou scat point to another ... See al Futurity.org – Humans stressing out skittish caribou By Vince Stricherz-UW The caribou population has been declining in the region for several decades causing speculation that the entire population could be gone in 70 years. Further, in the area of the petroleum-rich Athabasca Oil Sands in the northern part of ... Futurity.org l stories on this topic »

 

 

Caribou News Roundup...another backlog...but interesting stuff!

Oil sands activity, not wolves, threatens Canadian caribou
Los Angeles Times
Four years of research has found that exploration and mining of Canada's oil sands appear to pose a much greater threat to the remaining herds of Alberta's caribou than does being eaten by packs of wolves. The findings, by a team of Canadian and US ...
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  Caribou In Athabasca Oil Sands Threatened By Human Presence
RedOrbit
The caribou population in the Athabasca Oil Sands area in Alberta, Canada could be extinct in 30 years due to human activity, according to new research. Wolves have been blamed for the dwindling caribou population in parts of Alberta, but research ...
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Study: Oilsands activity causing caribou stress, decline
Alaska Dispatch
Humans, not wolves, are behind declining caribou populations in Alberta's oilsands region, an analysis of animal feces shows. The same research also found there may be many more caribou in the region than previously thought, meaning there may still be ...
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CMH Heliskiing and Mountain Caribou
a sad example of the dangerous misunderstandings between conservation groups, recreationalists, and land managers.
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Greenpeace says Ontario Liberals failing forests
CTV.ca
A report prepared by Greenpeace Canada said the Liberals permit huge clear cuts without requiring companies to replant for future generations, and allow logging to encroach into wilderness areas that are home to the threatened woodland caribou. ...
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Tour UAF's Large Animal Research station to learn about reindeer, caribou musk ox
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Located on the University of Alaska Fairbanks, the Robert G. White Large Animal Research Station on Yankovich Road is home to herds of musk oxen, caribou and domestic reindeer. Thousands of tourists visit every year to see the animals, which are used ...
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Killing wolves 'biologically wrong'
Edmonton Journal
For nearly two decades, he thought he was doing what needed to be done to protect caribou, moose and other prey species in the Yukon Territory. But two years ago, when Hayes was asked by a wildlife management organization whether killing wolves should ...
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Does the Ontario Government Care About Caribou? - Care2 News Network
By Cher C.
Two months ago, Greenpeace sent a letter to Minister of Natural Resources Linda Jeffrey asking her to scrap her proposal to exempt industry from the Endangered Species Act in the habitat of woodland caribou.
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Quebec caribou population in steep decline
Ottawa Citizen
Biologists are sounding an alarm over drastic declines in the numbers and overall condition of caribou in northern Quebec. As recently as 2001, caribou numbered more than one million in Nunavik; now there could be fewer than 300000 caribou. ...
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Arctic migration caused caribou to see in UV
Alaska Dispatch
A new study suggests that Arctic caribou -- a mere 10000 years after their initial migration to the region -- have adapted to the environment by being able to see in ultraviolet light. NewScientist reports that the study examined the responses of 18 ...
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Pukaskwa National Park will host its first annual Caribou Festival
Wawa-news.com
Pukaskwa National Park will host its first annual Caribou Festival from Friday, May 20 to Sunday, May 22. While catching a glimpse of one of Pukaskwa's woodland caribou is a rare joy, here's a chance to discover the “ghosts” of Pukaskwa through a full ...
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NATURE | Bears of the Last Frontier | Video Diary: In Search of Caribou | PBS
PBS
But I love this behind-the-scenes clip because it gives a real sense of the time we had to put in to find nearly half a million Western Arctic caribou. When you consider that they roam an area the size of Montana it becomes easier to understand how the ...
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Road to Umiat would destroy rural lifestyle
Anchorage Daily News
Just as our ancestors did, we continue to survive in rural Alaska by carrying out a subsistence way of life, depending on nearby caribou herds to support our livelihood, our diet and our cultural identity. Without these caribou and other plants and ...
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Students learn to skin caribou, build snow shelter, travel safely on 500-mile trip
Arctic Sounder
Shortly after, a large herd of caribou was located about 10 miles from camp. All the kids loaded up and headed in that direction. One of the adults was able to get into position to shoot a caribou so Raymond was able to teach everyone how to skin and ...
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Caribou numbers still dropping: outfitter
CBC.ca
The province plans to conduct a census of woodland caribou in some parts of the province. CBC An outfitter in central Newfoundland is questioning provincial government assertions that caribou herds in his area are no longer declining in numbers. ...
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South coast caribou survey results encouraging: province
Port aux Basques Gulf News
Survey results from the recent census of the south coast caribou herds suggest the rate of population decline has slowed, with a population estimate of 14784 animals in the region. The population census was conducted from February 24 to March 16, ...
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Doubts Remain About the Dead Caribou in "Hanna"
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
Focus features maintains that a caribou was not killed during the making of HANNA, though as the post from contact music says, we have nothing to go on but the studio's word. Here's the thing that's suspect: Every time I read the denial, ...
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Southern Nfld. caribou decline halted CBC.ca The caribou population on the south coast of Newfoundland is recovering from decline, according to top provincial government officials. The latest count of the herd on the southern part of the island estimates the population at 14784 animals, ... See all stories on this topic » Caribou decline slowing down The Independent News Results of a recent (February 24 to March 16) survey of the south coast caribou herds suggests that the rate of population decline is slowing, with a population estimate of 14784 animals in the region. According to a government press release, ... See all stories on this topic » Boreal pact will benefit local forest industry, NEOMA told Timmins Daily Press By Wayne Snider, The Daily Press Forestry companies and environmental groups are working together to devise a plan that would protect caribou in Northern Ontario while allowing companies to harvest the wood supply they need. Members of the Northeastern ... See all stories on this topic » Fairbanks restaurant offers Alaska-raised meats, other food from northern setting The Republic She imports caribou imported from Canada. Her husband, Doug Drum, provides products from Indian Valley Meats, a business he's owned for more than 30 years south of Anchorage. She says a signature dish is a burger made of ground beef, pork and buffalo. ... See all stories on this topic » Endangered by Climate Change, Arctic Caribou One Step Closer to ... By Nathan Herschler International Fund for Animal Welfare legal associate Nathan Herschler filed this post on the recent petition filed by IFAW asking the United States Department of Fish and Wildlife to list the Peary caribou as endangered. AnimalWire.org - http://blog.ifaw.org/ Canada's Endangered Species Of Animals By Editor Endangered Canadian mammals include two caribou species: The Peary caribou ( Rangifer tarandus pearyi) and the Atlantic-Gaspesie population of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou). Also listed as endangered are Ord's kangaroo rat ... All About Wildlife - http://www.allaboutwildlife.com/ Western Arctic Caribou Herd declines slightly TheNewsTribune.com The number of animals in the Western Arctic Caribou Herd, the largest in Alaska, has declined modestly, according to a revised population estimate released by the state Department of Fish and Game. By DAN JOLING The Associated Press The number of ... See all stories on this topic » Size of Western Arctic caribou herd revised downward Alaska Dispatch A continuing modest decline of Alaska's largest caribou herd is being carefully watched by state wildlife biologists, who see the animals as important not only for hunters, but the environment as a whole. "It has our attention," said Jim Dau, ... See all stories on this topic » Warming brings unwelcome change to Alaska villages Anchorage Daily News Kivalina hunters using the Wulik as a corridor to inland caribou herds have been warned to boil water before drinking it. Beavers are among the unwelcome changes associated with climate change, said Michael Brubaker, lead author of reports documenting ... See all stories on this topic » Outfitters say GNWT encouraged caribou hunting before 2010 ban HQ Yellowknife Yellowknife, NWT - Outfitters in the NWT are suing the territorial government for $10 million for what they describe as a loss of business and loss of future business because of the ban on hunting caribou. Six companies have filed a statement of claim ... See all stories on this topic » Caribou's Dan Snaith Releases New Twelve-Inch as Daphni Exclaim! (blog) By Alex HudsonLast month, Caribou mastermind Dan Snaith unveiled his new moniker, Daphni. At the time, he put out a mix featuring five new tracks recorded for the project. Soon after, he announced a split single with Four Tet. Now, Snaith has unveiled ... See all stories on this topic » Feds Say 'No Action' Best for Unimak Wolves, Caribou KTUU By Jackie Bartz Channel 2 News The Alaska Department of Fish and Game says it's appalled by the US Fish and Wildlife's decision to not allow any action to be taken to protect the caribou herd on Unimak Island. The state wants to use a helicopter to ... See all stories on this topic » Of wolves, caribou and the past The Union Leader --Caribou. Few people today seem to know that we had caribou in New Hampshire. They were woodland caribou, and they migrated north and south just as do their cousins today in Alaska, Yukon and Labrador. Helenette devotes only two pages to the caribou ... See all stories on this topic » "I Would Sacrifice A Few Caribou": Fox Promotes Drilling In ANWR Media Matters for America On his Fox Business show, Eric Bolling advocated for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), stating that he "would sacrifice a few caribou" in exchange for lower gas prices. However, drilling in ANWR would disturb the physical ... See all stories on this topic » Caribou Count Mistake Caused Tragedy for Native Tribe The Epoch Times That was when the Canadian federal government, in agreement with the Hudson Bay Company, miscalculated the cause of declining caribou herds and decided the Sayisi Dene Native tribe had to leave its traditional home around Duck Lake, Manitoba, ... See all stories on this topic » Caribou once roamed Cape Breton in abundant numbers Cape Breton Post One of my favourite materials for tying flies is caribou hair. I often use it instead of deer hair when tying salmon bugs and bombers. While I use it mainly for dry flies this passage from Dean Sage's book, “Trout and Salmon,” published in 1902 about ... See all stories on this topic » State opposes federal decision to not take action on Unimak wolf removal Juneau Empire The action would have been to remove wolves from caribou grounds on federal land. The state says this inaction will be harmful to Unimak's caribou population while the feds say such removal would go against certain refuge purposes. ... See all stories on this topic » Fish and Wildlife Decides Against Unimak Island Wolf Kill Alaska Public Radio Network The US Fish and Wildlife Service has decided that it will not conduct a wolf kill on Unimak Island as part of an effort to grow a dwindling caribou herd. An environmental assessment released this January suggested predator control – including aerial ... See all stories on this topic » Alaska needs to stand up to feds' predator-control meddling Anchorage Daily News The international Chisana caribou herd at the headwaters of the White River is one example. The Mentasta herd south of the Wrangell Mountains is another. ...  Chisana recovery program summary FINAL Apr_11x The Chisana caribou herd is a small, genetically distinct population of ... The Chisana caribou herd's winter range straddles the Yukon-Alaska border, ... www.yfwcm.ca/.../ChisanarecoveryprogramsummaryFINALA...