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Caribou News august 2011

2011-09-02T16:33:00.000-07:00

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. ...
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CBC.ca

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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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. ...
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Caribou News August 2011

2011-08-10T12:16:00.000-07:00

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. ...
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The Telegram

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 ...
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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

2011-07-20T12:21:00.001-07:00

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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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2011-06-30T15:58:00.000-07:00

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.
Care2 News Network - http://www.care2.com/news/

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, ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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...

Backlog of Caribou News...beware! Goes back to January 2011

2011-03-08T15:12:00.000-08:00

NL to monitor caribou herds
CBC.ca
The province plans to conduct a census of the south coast caribou herds. (Canadian Press)The government of Newfoundland and Labrador plans to track the migration patterns of the south coast caribou herds. Environment Minister Ross Wiseman said a census ...
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The greening of the North: climate change shrinking tundra, says study
Montreal Gazette
Study leader Song Feng, a University of Nebraska climatologist, told Postmedia News that the iconic caribou - also known as reindeer, and featured on Canada's 25-cent coin - would be among the wildlife species affected by the changes. ...
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Scientists probe Lake Huron for signs of pre-historic caribou hunters
Montreal Gazette
Scientists are planning a dive this spring to search for artifacts from what they believe was once a major caribou migration corridor and hunting hotspot about 10000 years ago for some of the earliest inhabitants of present-day Canada and the United ...
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Yukon may ease Porcupine caribou hunting rules
CBC.ca
Yukon environment officials say they may ease caribou hunting restrictions along the Dempster Highway, as the latest Porcupine caribou survey shows the herd has grown by almost 50000 animals in the last decade. Yukon hunters take a caribou along the ...
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Alaska-Canada caribou herd strongly rebounds
HeraldNet
AP ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A photo census indicates a caribou herd shared by Alaska and northwest Canada has grown significantly. The Alaska Department of Fish says the Porcupine Caribou Herd has grown to an estimated 169000 animals. ...
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Alaska-Canada caribou herd growing strong
Anchorage Daily News
By DAN JOLING AP A caribou herd shared by Alaska and northwest Canada has rebounded after a near one-third decline, according to a photo census announced Wednesday by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. State biologists said the Porcupine Caribou ...
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Conservatives not conserving our caribou
Edmonton Journal
The Banff caribou herd is extinct. Ten of 13 other Alberta woodland caribou herds are in decline. At least one Alberta biologist says some of the province's caribou herds are disappearing so quickly they could be gone in a decade. ...
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Labrador hunters encouraged to participate in caribou harvest survey
St. John's Telegram
Labrador hunters are encouraged to participate in the George River caribou harvest survey by submitting both the lower jawbone and licence return for any caribou killed during the 2011-12 hunting season, the provincial government announced today. ...
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Yukon Woodland Caribou | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
By nobody@flickr.com (Yellow Snow Photography)
1 of 7 of a series of caribou shots from yesterday's drive back from skiing.
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Alberta silent on status of declining caribou population
Montreal Gazette
By Hanneke Brooymans, Postmedia News February 20, 2011 10:01 PM EDMONTON — The Alberta government is refusing to release recommendations from a scientific subcommittee that studied whether woodland caribou should be designated as endangered. ...
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Fortymile caribou hunt resumes after Yukon Quest mushers pass

Anchorage Daily News
AP FAIRBANKS -- The Alaska Fortymile caribou hunt along Steese Highway is reopening now that Yukon Quest mushers are out of the way. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported there are still plenty of caribou hanging around. State game managers are also ...
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Countdown to extinction begins for Ontario's caribou ! PLEAS ...

By Cher C.
Despite three years of promises to protect Ontario's threatened woodland caribou , the McGuinty government is proposing to exempt logging, mining and other industries from having to take action to protect caribou under the Endangered ...
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Warm Arctic weather threatens Alaska's caribou, Dall sheep
Alaska Dispatch
... mid-winter warming events in Alaska and across the Arctic will impact the region's native animal populations -- Western Arctic caribou and Dall sheep, ...
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Palin: “Mr. Caribou, You Need to Take One for the Team”

Death and Taxes
Palin's also anti-caribou, in as much as that is actually possible. During her speech, she suggested the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge was more like a ...
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Hunting Alaskan caribou, part two
Othello Outlook
When it was light enough to shoot, we saw tracks in the snow — moose, caribou and red foxes — foxes that would later turn into pests. ...
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Ontario choosing development over caribou: Eco groups
Toronto Star
By Tanya Talaga Queen's Park Bureau A new provincial plan to save the caribou does nothing but appease northern mining, hydro and investment interests, ...
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Arctic Warming Affects Caribou Migration - Arctic with Bruce Parry, Canada ...

BBC News
The warming climate has affected the spring migration of the Caribou, and the Gwitchin are seeing fewer Caribou than usual.
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Not much action in Fortymile caribou hunt
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
by Tim Mowry / tmowry@newsminer.com There are still lots of caribou near the Steese Highway north of Fairbanks, the hunt remains closed along the road and ...
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Hunting Alaskan caribou
Othello Outlook
While we were in Arkansas shooting in a rifle match, he began telling me about Alaskan big game hunting, especially caribou. I was curious, so I prodded him ...
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De Beers' mine plans raise caribou concerns
CBC.ca
More research is needed to determine what factors drive caribou away from mine sites, according to wildlife biologist Kim Poole. ...
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Labrador Inuit want to hunt more caribou
CBC.ca
The Nunatsiavut government of northern Labrador wants the government of Newfoundland and Labrador to change Caribou hunting rules. ...
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Natuashish Chief Concerned About Caribou Numbers
VOCM
Natuashish Chief Simeon Tshakapesh says after reading a 2010 report that estimated a drastic decline in the George River caribou herd, he is very concerned ...
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Caribou killed in protected Labrador area
Toronto Sun
By SHEENA GOODYEAR, QMI Agency At least 80 caribou have been killed in a protected region of central Labrador that's home to the last 100 or so members of ...
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Palin's caribou hunt won't be investigated
CBC.ca
Sarah Palin's recently televised caribou hunt has raised questions about whether the former Alaskan governor may have violated state regulations by taking ...
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FarmVille Winter Wonderland Animals: Caribou and Fiordland Penguin
Games.com News (blog)
The two animals are the Caribou and the Fiordland Penguin. Both are, unfortunately, premium Winter Wonderland animals that are only available to purchase ...
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Caribou Relieved as Sara Palin Announces 'No Second Season'
Spooftimes.com (satire)
Thousands of Alaskan Caribou breathed a sight of relief yesterday when local Alaskan milf Sarah Palin announced she would not be doing a second season of ...
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Caribou Fences Interactive

2010-12-01T16:51:00.000-08:00

Caribou Fences Interactive:
All about the caribou and ancient fences used to catch them in the North Slope of the Yukon.
Very cool Flash-based site, with great illustrations and simple explanations.
Great for younger students too.

Animal Antics - The Barren-ground Caribou

2010-11-24T16:11:00.000-08:00

Animal Antics - The Barren-ground Caribou: "

Animal Antics is an EcoKids comic strip about the “antics” of Canadian wildlife. Xalibu the Pawer is all about the barren-ground caribou. The name caribou likely came from the Micmac word “xalibu,” which means 'the one who paws.'

Our illustrator has drawn a series of pictures showing a herd of barren-ground caribou throughout the seasons, starting in winter. Each picture represents different caribou behaviour. But the comic strip is missing one very important element—the captions! So we need your help!

You can help by writing the words to go along with the pictures.

To help you write the captions for “Xalibu,” EcoKids has put together a Barren-ground Caribou Fact Sheet to give you some basic information and interesting facts.

Caribou in the News MORE!

2010-11-24T10:43:00.000-08:00

Bluenose East caribou herd recovering
HQ Yellowknife
Yellowknife, NWT - The Bathurst caribou may be dwindling, but it looks as though the Bluenose East herd is recovering. Summer surveys show the Bluenose East ...
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South Dempster caribou hunting ban signed
CBC.ca
The emergency caribou hunting ban begins Friday in an area covering the southern part of the Dempster Highway and much of Tombstone Territorial Park. ...
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Nelchina herd big enough for human horde
Anchorage Daily News
It was an easy, warm autumn for the caribou, prompting them to linger in their summer foraging grounds along the Denali Highway. ...
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Caribou concerns arise at Winnipeg workshop
CBC.ca
A wild caribou pauses near the Meadowbank gold mine in Nunavut in 2009. Population declines have been reported in some barren-land caribou herds across ...
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Meeting pledges to work to save caribou
Winnipeg Free Press
Scientists, wildlife managers and aboriginal leaders have wrapped up a four-day summit by pledging to work to save endangered caribou but they didn't ...
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Manitoba: Threatened Woodland Caribou, Moose Populations To Be ...
In Manitoba the threatened Woodland Caribou and moose populations will be monitored by First Nations as the East Side Road project moves forward.
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Caribou in the News

2010-11-24T10:42:00.000-08:00

South Dempster caribou hunting ban signed
CBC.ca
The emergency caribou hunting ban begins Friday in an area covering the southern part of the Dempster Highway and much of Tombstone Territorial Park. ...
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Labrador Innu offer to help NL save caribou
CBC.ca
The grand chief of the Innu Nation in Labrador says his members could help the provincial government communicate with Innu from Quebec who hunt caribou in ...
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CBC.ca

Reindeer arrive for holidays
San Francisco Chronicle
And others saw four caribou trucked in from Redmond, Ore. Susan Mathison, however, was not among the latter. "It brings out the kid in me," said Mathison, ...
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Reindeer Romp: Check out these caribou at S.F. Zoo
San Francisco Chronicle
Nappi says reindeer - which are essentially caribou - roam the tundras of Sweden, Russia and Mongolia, as well as Canada and Alaska. ...
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Fortymile caribou hunt short of quota, excess added to winter permit hunt
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
by Tim Mowry / tmowry@newsminer.com FAIRBANKS — Hunters will get a shot at more Fortymile caribou this winter after falling short of the harvest quota for ...
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Oil and gas remnants killing caribou: First Nations
CTV.ca
Residents of the Treaty 8 lands near Fort St. John say that contamination from the abandoned sites is poisoning bison, moose, deer and caribou, ...
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Labrador caribou plan devastating: outfitters
CBC.ca
A new conservation plan aimed at saving a dwindling caribou herd in Labrador will have devastating consequences, outfitters say. ...
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CBC.ca

New hunting limits preserve Fortymile caribou herd
Anchorage Daily News
AP FAIRBANKS -- The 2010 Fortymile caribou hunt went as planned for state Fish and Game Department officials, with a late start and one unexpected closing ...
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Food Sector Earnings: California Pizza Kitchen, Caribou Coffee
MarketNewsVideo.com
Also late yesterday, Caribou Coffee Company (NASDAQ:CBOU) posted earnings of $1.6 million, or $0.08 per share, compared to $0.7 million, or $0.03 per share, ...
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NL gov't toughens rules for caribou hunting
CTV.ca
JOHN'S, NL — The Newfoundland and Labrador government has brought in tough restrictions on caribou hunting in light of a serious decline in the size of the ...
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CTV.ca

George River Caribou Herd Declining: Critic
VOCM
Liberal critic Roland Butler says the environment minister has been slow to act in saving the George River caribou herd. Charlene Johnson brought an end ...
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VOCM

Going, going, gone?
Edmonton Journal
By Ed Struzik, edmontonjournal.com November 14, 2010 Parks Canada biologist Mark Bradley uses a radio antenna to home in on caribou near Amethyst Lake in ...
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Nunatsiavut Government to Talk Caribou Numbers
VOCM
The Nunatsiavut Department of Lands and Natural Resources will begin public consultations Sunday to discuss the state of the George River caribou herd. ...

Western Arctic Herd News..Caribou Trails

2010-11-10T16:20:00.000-08:00

The latest edition of Caribou Trails is now available on the Project Caribou website...
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Caribou in the News end of October 2010

2010-10-27T09:51:00.001-07:00

First Nations people, scientists meet to save caribou
Winnipeg Free Press
The North American Caribou Workshop has registered 400 environmentalists, aboriginal leaders, government regulators and scientists, twice as many as ...
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Consultations taking place on George River Caribou
St. John's Telegram
Consultations are taking place in Labrador today and Wednesday on the management of the George River caribou herd. Preliminary census results, from a ...
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Board approves hunt for Nelchina caribou
Anchorage Daily News
AP The Alaska Board of Game has decided to proceed with a community harvest of the Nelchina herd, the state's most sought after caribou. ...
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Bathurst caribou plan to help preserve herd
CBC.ca
The Bathurst caribou herd's population has dropped from about 128000 in 2006 to 32000 last year, according to NWT government surveys. ...
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Flying in Caribou Country - 2008_1.pdf 1783520 - geology.gov.yk.ca ...
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Caribou Herd Ranges - Environment Yukon Map Collection

2010-10-27T09:19:00.000-07:00

Caribou Herd Ranges - Environment Yukon Map Collection:

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2010-10-14T13:45:00.000-07:00

Bathurst caribou conservation plan signed
CBC.ca
Yellowknives Dene First Nation chiefs Ted Tsetta, left, and Edward Sangris sign the caribou agreement Thursday with NWT Environment Minister Michael ...

Harvest reports due on Nelchina caribou herd
Anchorage Daily News
Hunters so far have taken 730 of the 1500 quota on the Nelchina caribou herd, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. ...

14 great migrations: Caribou | MNN - Mother Nature Network
North America's caribou populations migrate the furthest of any terrestrial mammal, a journey which can span over 3000 miles annually.
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On Our Radar: Shrinking Caribou Herds
New York Times (blog)
By JOHN COLLINS RUDOLF Caribou populations across the Arctic drop precipitously; resource development and a warming climate are to blame, researchers say. ...

Government's plan will not save caribou
ECO/Huff Strategy (press release)
Toronto, 22 September 2010 –Ontario's woodland caribou are in danger of disappearing from this province, warns the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario, ...

OPINION: How to Field Dress a Caribou
Arctic Sounder
At a young age, my father taught me how to hunt and process large game animals, specifically caribou, with minimal effort and equipment. ...

Alberta First Nations press Ottawa over caribou depletion
Edmonton Journal
Two caribou herds live in the area the Beaver Lake Cree claim as their traditional territory, an area the size of Switzerland bordering Saskatchewan in the ...
Court challenge launched to halt new oilsands development on caribou land
Winnipeg Free Press
Environmental and aboriginal groups hope to use the Species At Risk Act to force federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice to protect woodland caribou herds ...

US hunter's caribou may be record size
CBC.ca
The antlers of the mountain caribou Mark Seacat hunted in the Mackenzie Mountains on Aug. 17 may be the second-largest on record. ...

Flying in Caribou Country brochure

2010-10-01T09:49:00.000-07:00

flying_caribou_country.pdf (application/pdf Object): "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

(2010) Studies show that caribou are sensitive to low-altitude overhead flights. This brochure provides valuable information on how to minimize caribou disturbance from aircraft.
Current range maps of Yukon caribou herds too!

A Troubling Decline in the Caribou Herds of the Arctic by Ed Struzik: Yale Environment 360

2010-09-28T12:05:00.000-07:00

A Troubling Decline in the Caribou Herds of the Arctic by Ed Struzik: Yale Environment 360: "23 Sep 2010: Report
A Troubling Decline in the
Caribou Herds of the Arctic
Across the Far North, populations of caribou — an indispensable source of food and clothing for indigenous people — are in steep decline. Scientists point to rising temperatures and a resource-development boom as the prime culprits.
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More caribou goodies, a bit older

2010-09-01T16:52:00.000-07:00

A Caribou-bou in the Warming Arctic
New York Times (blog)
By STEVE ZACK A long-running joke with my nieces, Allison and Lindsay, is that a mistake involving caribou is a “caribou-bou.” Our caribou-bou is now clear. ...
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B.C. to monitor, manage, mitigate habitat for threatened boreal caribou
Winnipeg Free Press
The ministry says caribou populations will be closely monitored over the next five years, and specific measures will be established for their management and ...
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Exploratory drilling for zinc raises concerns for caribou, environment
Vancouver Sun
By Larry Pynn, Vancouver Sun June 22, 2010 9:00 PM A Vancouver mining company proposes to conduct exploratory drilling for zinc on threatened caribou ...
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Caribou controversy
Chico News & Review
US District Judge H. Russel Holland ruled that federal wildlife officials are allowed the time necessary to determine reasons for the declining caribou ...
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Caribou issue more complex than "kill them all"
Juneau Empire
The ratio of caribou bulls to cows is skewed at 5:100. The bulls are old, leading to low birth rates and unhealthy calves. Reported predation on calves ...
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My national animal: the noble caribou - The Globe and Mail

2010-09-01T16:47:00.000-07:00

My national animal: the noble caribou - The Globe and Mail: "Joseph Boyden

Joseph Boyden

From Tuesday's Globe and Mail Published on Tuesday, Jun. 29, 2010 12:01AM EDT Last updated on Saturday, Jul. 03, 2010 12:28AM EDT

In the days leading up to Canada Day, The Globe is teaming up with Facebook for an unscientific survey of Canadians about what our true national symbols should be. We've also asked a few Canadians to share their picks. Today, author Joseph Boyden makes his pitch.

Be it resolved that the caribou should be our national animal.

And let it make no difference should said caribou represent any one of the three major subspecies—Peary of the far north, Barren Ground of the central north, or Woodland of the low north – for they all share unique and resilient qualities befitting a country that is in itself so unique and resilient.

Speaking to the resilience of the caribou, this is an animal that can cover one hundred kilometers of the toughest and most frigid terrain imaginable in a single day, pawing through snowdrift and ice for the meager yet nourishing lichen in winter, fording vast rivers and mosquito-plagued tundra in summer.

Still, in every life upon this earth there will always be predators. The world of the caribou contains its enemies too; its sinewy flanks are the mouthwatering awe of polar bear, grizzly, wolf, lynx, and even the eagle when it spies from above the newborn calf.

Some say the animal’s greatest predator is the human race, but it isn’t through the most obvious relationship between hunter and hunted. Rather, it is through our growing hunger for the earth’s bounty.

The creation of pipelines that cut through and cut off traditional migration routes, the encroachment of construction on sensitive feeding grounds, and the continued temperature rise that threatens to topple the Arctic ice into a warming sea might very well account for the drastic drop in caribou populations all across the north.

And so let these resilient beasts be a reminder to us all that there’s great irony in the fact that we make these animals’ already tough lives much tougher in our constant hunger to fill our own lives with more ease.

While gender equality might not be a phrase commonly considered when we speak of the natural world, a fascinating fact exists when we consider the mighty caribou: it is the only member of the deer family in which both male and female grow antlers. If this fact alone doesn’t impress you, imagine yourself carrying a weight equal to your thighbones fused to your forehead as you run through said tundra or away from said polar bear.

Perhaps the caribou’s greatest strength is its desire to gather in massive herds after the rut in autumn and to travel en masse through the tough winter months, staying together as one giant entity, one huge family, until the miracle that happens on the birthing grounds in late spring allows them to break off into smaller families for the pleasant months of summer.

Caribou innately understand that strength exists in numbers, that they are better protected from hungry predators in the fall, the killing cold in winter, and the bloodsucking mosquito hordes that awake in the spring. The caribou recognizes, most importantly, that the good of the group, for much of the year, far outweighs the needs of the individual.

What an incredible lesson for humans, if only we allow ourselves, for just a moment, to believe we can actually learn something from an animal so perfectly suited to its environment.

And no, it cannot go without mention that caribou is absolutely delicious in a stew with braised carrots, potatoes, onion, red wine, and perhaps half a bottle of Guinness beer. Is there anything more sublime than to be allowed to consume a tiny part of the spirit of this animal, the spirit of the North, the spirit of this country? It is only just, then, only right, that at the moment of eating, to offer up our hearty thanks to one so resilient and unique.

Joseph Boyden is an award-winning novelist whose heart is in the north no matter how far south he sometimes resides.

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Caribou News backlog!

2010-09-01T16:43:00.000-07:00

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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CBC.ca

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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CBC.ca

Caribou in the News--- lots o' stuff

2010-06-07T16:32:00.000-07:00

State, federal officials await Unimak Island predator control ruling
KTUU
The Unimak Island caribou herd is in decline, and state biologists want to shoot seven wolves on the island. (Courtesy Lem Butler/Alaska Department of Fish ...
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Alaska postpones wolf kill plans until judge rules
The Associated Press
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The state of Alaska is halting plans to kill wolves on caribou calving grounds in a national refuge until a federal judge rules on the ...
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Federal judge to hear state case for shooting wolves next week
KTUU
At the hearing, US Fish and Wildlife Service officials argued that following federal regulations like NEPA is the best way to bring back the caribou ...
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State waits for judge's decision on wolves
Juneau Empire
ANCHORAGE - The state is holding off on plans to kill wolves on the caribou calving grounds inside a national refuge on Unimak Island until it hears from a ...
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My turn: Lack of science, planning to blame for low caribou herd
Juneau Empire
By Tina Brown | Juneau Empire According to the State of Alaska, the problem on Unimak Island is that there are not enough bull caribou to sustain the herd. ...
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State Sues Federal Agency for Blocking Caribou Preservation Plan
SitNews
Unimak Island, the eastern-most in the Aleutian chain, is home to the nation's only naturally occurring insular caribou herd. The herd numbered 1260 in 2002 ...
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NWT proposes new Bathurst caribou plan
CBC.ca
The most recent NWT government survey of the Bathurst caribou herd showed a decline from about 128000 caribou in 2006 to an estimated 31900 animals in 2009. ...
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Alaska sues feds over predator control
The Associated Press
At issue is the state's plan to kill wolves to preserve a caribou herd inside the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge on Unimak Island, beginning as ...
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RONA Applauds Agreement to Ensure Enhanced Protection of Canada's Boreal Forest
MarketWatch (press release)
... The completion of joint proposals for networks of protected areas and the recovery of species at risk, including woodland caribou; -- A full life-cycle ...
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Canadian Forestry Firms' Agreement Fails on Caribou, Boreal Protection
The Media Co-op (blog)
“An analysis of the announcement on forestry and caribou can come to only one conclusion: the logging companies do not plan to preserve anything near the ...
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Three Delta Junction hunters sentenced for illegally shooting caribou
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
by Tim Mowry / tmowry@newsminer.com FAIRBANKS — Three Delta Junction men who illegally killed 10 caribou off the Denali Highway in December have been fined ...
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Canadian forestry firms agree to curb boreal forest logging
Independent
Forestry companies announced Tuesday a pact with environmentalists to stop logging huge swathes of Canada's boreal forest and protect caribou herds in ...
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USA Today

170 million acres of Canada's boreal forest to be saved
USA Today
"This is our best chance to save woodland caribou, permanently protect vast areas of the Boreal Forest and put in place sustainable forestry practices," ...
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Historic Deal Puts Caribou Before Cash
The Epoch Times
The deal is being hailed as a historic breakthrough that could reduce greenhouse gas emission by millions of tonnes and preserve the woodland caribou and ...
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Caribou still at risk under historic deal
Edmonton Journal
But caribou experts in Alberta fear it may not be enough to halt the iconic animal's precipitous decline in this province. The Canadian Boreal Forest ...
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'World's biggest' forest protection deal for Canada

'World's biggest' forest protection deal for Canada
BBC News
Logging will be totally banned on some of the land, in the hope of sustaining endangered caribou populations. Timber companies hope the deal will bring ...
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Treehugger

Government Buckshot: "Technique Allows Us To Achieve Our Caribou Objectives"
Treehugger
"Residents of False Pass are extremely concerned about the precipitous decline in caribou on the island because caribou have been an important part of our ...
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Caribou in the News--- May 2010

2010-05-14T16:01:00.000-07:00

Global warming unlocks archeological secrets in the North
CTV.ca
(Tom Andrews/GNWT) Global warming is allowing archeologists in the Northwest Territories to expand their understanding of how people interacted with caribou ...
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Globe and Mail

NWT natives fight to hunt dwindling caribou
Globe and Mail
FILE - A wild caribou roams the tundra near The Meadowbank Gold Mine located in the Nunavut Territory of Canada on March 25, 2009. ...
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Groups decry province's proposed aerial wolf kill to protect caribou
Vancouver Sun
By Andrea Woo, Vancouver Sun May 5, 2010 12:16 AM A mountain caribou feeds on roadside salt at Kootenay Pass on Highway 3. On Monday, May 3, ...
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Dancing with Caribou on the treeless plain
Winnipeg Free Press
1With my arms held upwards in the approximate shape of antlers, I swayed and dipped like a feeding caribou just as our guide Steve Lybeck had instructed us ...
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CBC.ca

Porcupine caribou management plan awaits signatures
CBC.ca
A harvest management plan for the Porcupine caribou herd could be fully signed by the end of this month, when the Porcupine Caribou Management Board plans ...
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Ancient tools revealed by melting Arctic ice
msnbc.com
In 1997, sheep hunters discovered a 4300-year-old dart shaft in caribou dung that had become exposed as the ice receded. Scientists who investigated the ...
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NWT bans caribou hunt advertising
CBC.ca
An interim ban on hunting caribou has been in effect since Jan. 1, covering areas considered to be the Bathurst caribou herd's winter grounds. ...
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Study: Wolves prefer moose or caribou, but salmon will do in a pinch
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
by Tim Mowry / tmowry@newsminer.com FAIRBANKS — Moose and caribou are the food of choice for wolves in Interior Alaska, but salmon also can be an important ...
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Wide caribou buffer would kill logging: minister
CBC.ca
A wide buffer to protect Newfoundland's woodland caribou would wind up killing the logging industry, a minister says. Scientists have long called for ...
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13 months after illegal caribou hunt, only 1 person charged
Globe and Mail
When Quebec Innu swept into Labrador last year to hunt protected caribou – a blunt statement that government could not ignore their demands – conservation ...
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Caribou in the News--- big catchup!! (not ketchup)

2010-04-23T14:27:00.000-07:00

Hope you didn't miss the caribou news too much...I'm a little behind so here's a flood! from most recent to older... RR

Quebec hunter charged after threatened caribou killed in Labrador
The Canadian Press
JOHN'S, NL — A hunter from Quebec faces charges in connection with the killing of threatened caribou last year in southern Labrador. ...
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Woodcutting affecting NL caribou population: outfitter
CBC.ca
A big game outfitter in central Newfoundland says logging, not predation, is to blame for the decline in woodland caribou. The province's ministry of ...
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Deal allows controlled Dene caribou hunt
CBC.ca
The Yellowknives Dene and the NWT government have reached a deal to keep the band supplied with caribou meat. Under an agreement made public Monday, ...
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Landmark court decision backs first nation's concern about caribou
Vancouver Sun
Only about 11 caribou remain in the herd, which has been decimated over the years by the cumulative impact of resource development and hydro dams, ...
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US outfitter fights NWT caribou policy with NAFTA
CTV.ca
A move by the Northwest Territories to revoke caribou tags for non-resident hunters is effectively the same as shutting down his business, says John Andre, ...
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BC mining project halted over caribou herd
Globe and Mail
Chief Roland Willson has said that thousands of caribou used to roam the province's northeast but that is no longer the case. The BC government has moved ...
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NWT, Tlicho given more time for Bathurst caribou plan
CBC.ca
An interim emergency hunting ban currently in effect has outraged Dene leaders, as well as hunters and outfitters, who have relied on caribou for ...
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Caribou plan would trample Northern jobs
Timmins Daily Press
Despite the findings calculated by one provincial ministry, it's another ministry — natural resources — which is leading the implementation of the caribou ...
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Quebec caribou hunters arrested in Labrador
CBC.ca
Two caribou, four guns and three snowmobiles were all seized by provincial conservation officers. Conservation officers said four men were hunting in the ...
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We're a never-kill-wolf province, public says
Vancouver Sun
By Larry Pynn, Vancouver SunMarch 17, 2010 9:00 PM The public has rejected the idea of an aerial wolf kill in BC to benefit threatened mountain caribou, ...
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Alaska: Aerial Wolf Hunt Begins
New York Times
By LESLIE KAUFMAN State employees began an aerial wolf hunt on the Yukon border on Tuesday in what officials describe as an effort to preserve caribou for ...
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Woodland caribou: Going down with the trees
Grand Falls-Windsor Advertiser
Woodland caribou are in serious trouble on the island of Newfoundland and the public need to reflect on the major contributing factors. ...
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Northern Peninsula police warn of caribou on the roads
St. John's Telegram
Police on the Northern Peninsula are asking motorists to slow down and look out for caribou in the area of Flowers Cove. Const. Kevin Bowes says there have ...
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Caribou's inner clock set to Arctic time
CBC.ca
A wild caribou roams the tundra near the Meadowbank Gold Mine located in Nunavut. (Nathan Denette/Canadian Press) Caribou living in the Arctic have switched ...
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Caribou hunt impact won't be known for year
CBC.ca
Environment and Conservation Minister Charlene Johnson said a forthcoming census will yield important information about the Red Wine caribou. ...
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Highway 63 twinning project on hold for caribou calving season
Edmonton Journal
comMarch 3, 2010 EDMONTON — The twinning of Highway 63 north of Wandering River has been suspended until after the caribou calving season is finished, ...
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Fortymile caribou hunt restricted further
TheNewsTribune.com
AP FAIRBANKS -- The Fortymile caribou hunt will open almost three weeks later this season and will be limited only to bull caribou. ...
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DNA links caribou migration to volcanic eruption
CBC.ca
DNA from ancient frozen caribou bones found in the Yukon suggests caribou herds in the area were displaced by a volcanic eruption 1000 years ago. ...
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AFN chief Atleo defends Innu hunt of at-risk caribou
Globe and Mail
The government says the endangered Red Wine caribou herd intermingles in the area with the healthier George River herd. In a news release Wednesday, ...
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Hunting for caribou ancestry
Science Friday
In the Canadian Yukon, scientists are using genetic techniques to identify caribou and to study ancient caribou that roamed the same ice patches 6000 years ...
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NWT, Dene prepare for caribou court debate
CBC.ca
The Northwest Territories Supreme Court will hear a heated debate over a caribou hunting ban, and whether the territorial government has the authority to ...
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NL government urges Quebec Innu to stop caribou hunt in Labrador
The Canadian Press
The provincial Natural Resources Department said Sunday that 100 to 150 Innu hunters are camped in an area populated by the George River caribou herd. ...
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Seized caribou meat debate returns to NWT court
CBC.ca
The Bathurst caribou hunting ban took effect Jan. 1 in an area stretching from the north shore of Great Slave Lake to the Nunavut border. ...
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Caribou conservation funding drops
Northern News Services (subscription)
The department has allocated $500000 from their 2010-2011 budget to caribou conversation, said Evan Walz, senior adviser to the deputy minister. ...
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Modern and ancient DNA reveal recent partial replacement of ...
whole data set of 16 caribou herds (Aishihik, Atlin,. Bonnet Plume, Carcross, Cassiar, Chase, Chisana, Fin- layson, Fortymile, Ibex, Klaza, Kluane, Pelly, ...

Managing Alaska's Wildlife
Ranges of Alaska's. Caribou herds. Alaska Caribou Herds. Adak. Beaver Mountains. Teshekpuk. Central Arctic. Central. Chisana. Arctic. Delta. Porcupine ...

Yukon Caribou genetics research

2010-02-24T13:10:00.000-08:00

CKRW 8:00 A.M. NEWS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2010

3. DNA recovered from ancient caribou bones in southern Yukon has revealed a possible link between several small caribou herds and a massive volcanic eruption that blanketed much of the territory in a thick layer of ash over 1,000 years ago. The study was conducted by an international team of scientists from the US, the UK and Canada who have been studying the history of the fragile species. Yukon paleontologist Dr. Grant Zazula says this latest study shows the massive impacts and eruption of a huge volcano in southern Alaska had on wildlife in Yukon almost 1,000 years ago.

(Zazula) “It’s something called the White River ash and if you drive on the highway from here to Carmacks or even if you just scuff under the soil you see this white power and it’s from this volcanic event that took place at a mountain called Mount Bonachurchill(sp). It’s by the Yukon/Alaska border and it’s probably one of the most significant volcanic events of the last 10,000 years, massive volcanic eruption so basically the entire Yukon or at least the southern half of the Yukon was blanketed by thick volcanic ash and volcanic ash is basically pulverized glass so the disruption to the environment must have been just amazing. It seems like what happens is the caribou that were living in that area prior to this volcanic ash eruption were probably either wiped out completely or displaced somehow. They had to migrate to some other area because their habitat was completely destroyed by this volcano.”

A Whitehorse native and Simon Fraser University graduate Tyler Kuhn worked on this study by taking bits of ancient DNA from caribou bones found in 6,000 year old snow patches. Zazula talked with CKRW about the unique Yukon climate and how those snow patches preserve bones and help researchers peak into the past.

(Zazula) “What’s so remarkable about these sites is because when the bones are deposited on these snow patches they’re basically frozen since the time the animal dies so when the bone is say deposited 8,000 years ago, it remains frozen so all the proteins and DNA preserved within the bone is perfectly preserved so you can look at the evolution of these animals and look at how the populations have changed through time and there’s not too many places in the world where you can find 8,000 year old caribou DNA preserved in bone. The Yukon is an amazing place for this kind of research and we’re really glad to be a part of it here.”

Findings from the report compared ancient DNA with DNA from caribou living nearby today and found that bones older than 1,000 years in Whitehorse did not match. The study more than a decade in the making also indicates today’s modern caribou turned out not to be related to the herds to the northeast or west and represent new arrivals possibly from further south.

(Zazula) “There’s been a collaboration between the Yukon government and a number of the Yukon first nations and scientists from universities have been working on this project for I think it’s almost 12 years now, and developing the history of hunting in the alpine zones, the changes of technology between different types of bow and arrows and different types of throwing spears and also looking at how these caribou populations have changed so this sort of research has been ongoing for over 10 years now and this is just the newest report to come from it and it’s basically the first major report on the genetics from the caribou populations that are preserved in the ice.” The research is the first to identify a possible link between changes in local wildlife and the volcanic eruption in a document that was released on line yesterday.

CBC 7:30 A.M. NEWS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2010

A Whitehorse researcher is finding some clues about modern day caribou in some 6,000 year old DNA. Tyler Kuhn a graduate student at Simon Fraser University. He worked with an international team trying to compare ancient DNA samples from frozen caribou to modern day species. One of the things they found was that the Southern Lakes caribou herd seems to have diverged genetically from other Yukon caribou about 1,000 years ago. That’s right around the time of a gigantic volcanic eruption. It covered much of the Southern Lakes area in a layer of ash called the White River ash. Coon says that impacted the caribou there. (Coon) “We think what actually happened is that after this volcanic eruption the caribou that were in this area actually got pushed away from the area or they disappeared locally and allowed a different group or herd of caribou to come in.” Coon says they’re still lots of work to be done but he’s happy to be working on the problems and says finding out what happened in the past may provide clues to protecting caribou in the future.

Caribou in the News this week

2010-02-17T16:04:00.001-08:00

Minister must protect Alberta caribou in face of industry pressure, groups say
The Canadian Press
EDMONTON — Three Alberta conservation groups want federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice to use legislation to ensure the survival of woodland caribou. ...
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CBC.ca

Debate over NWT caribou hunting ban goes public
CBC.ca
The Bathurst caribou hunting ban took effect Jan. 1, barring aboriginal and non-aboriginal hunters from harvesting caribou in the NWT's North Slave region. ...
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Oilsands put caribou in danger, group says
Vancouver Sun
A federal report says half of Canada's boreal caribou herds are in decline and could die off this century unless their habitat is better protected. ...
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CBC.ca

Caribou hunting ban raises Dene health concerns
CBC.ca
Caribou meat has long been a diet staple among northern aboriginal peoples, such as the Dene. (CBC) Some northern residents are becoming worried about the ...
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What is wild - Caribou can be tamed. But should Alaska allow it?
Anchorage Press
Williams approached the Press in December angling for a story about island-bound reindeer and caribou in Alaska, stocked there by people. ...
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The Porcupine Caribou Herd: Annual Migration Patterns in the ...
One of the largest caribou herds in North America travels up to 3000 miles each year in a journey to its ancient calving grounds and then back south to its ...

What is wild? Should Alaska allow caribou collecting?
Anchorage Daily News
Of course, Tom Williams stands to benefit from this plan too; he wants to get some of those caribou -- larger than most -- for his Butte farm. ...
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G-7's Arctic Retreat Menu Features Musk-Ox, Caribou
BusinessWeek
3 (Bloomberg) -- Timothy F. Geithner, European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet and other Group of Seven officials will dine on musk-ox, caribou ...
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Oilsands threaten caribou, experts warn
Montreal Gazette
By MIKE DE SOUZA, Canwest News ServiceFebruary 2, 2010 The oilsands could wipe out threatened woodland caribou in northern Alberta if regulators fail to ...
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The Canadian Press

Aboriginals push back over hunting rules on caribou, polar bears in the North
The Canadian Press
Last fall, Yukon ruled that hunting of the Porcupine caribou herd - thought to have declined from 178000 to 100000 animals over the last 20 years - would be ...
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Woodland caribou under threat in oilsands area, group says
Montreal Gazette
By Mike De Souza, Canwest News ServiceFebruary 2, 2010 1:03 AM The oilsands could wipe out threatened woodland caribou populations in northern Alberta if ...
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G-7's Arctic Retreat Menu Features Musk-Ox, Caribou
BusinessWeek
3 (Bloomberg) -- Timothy F. Geithner, European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet and other Group of Seven officials will dine on musk-ox, caribou ...
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Police: Idaho man arrested in 2005 stabbing death of pregnant wife in North ...
Los Angeles Times
Abaroa is being held without bail in the Caribou County Jail, awaiting an extradition hearing. Police say Abaroa told investigators he found his wife dead ...
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The Canadian Press

Caribou killing trial begins in Point Hope
Arctic Sounder
Eight men were accused in the highly publicized caribou waste case. This week just three, Chester Koonuk, 30, Roy Miller, 20 and Aqquilluk Hank, 31, ...
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Labrador's new national park
TheChronicleHerald.ca
"Certainly those areas are important for woodland caribou and wolverine, both wide-ranging species." The group said protecting the boreal region will also ...
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Caribou hunters' traditional practice violated state law, judge rules
Arctic Sounder
In his concluding remarks Judge Richard Erlich took pains to honor the three men who, out of eight charged for the caribou waste in 2008, were the only ones ...
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Ottawa creates massive new park in Labrador
Globe and Mail
Conservation Canada says the move should shield threatened populations of caribou, harlequin ducks and other bird species from development in the region. ...
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Difference Between Elk and Caribou | Difference Between
By Noa A
Elk vs Caribou The difference between elk and caribou goes beyond just their behavioral differences. Most people believe that they are all simply larger deer,
Difference Between - http://www.differencebetween.net/

BC aboriginals in court to save threatened caribou herd from coal mine
The Canadian Press
VICTORIA, BC — A First Nation group from northeast BC has gone to court to fight to protect a tiny, endangered caribou herd from a potential coal mine ...
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Caribou News

2010-02-09T16:20:00.001-08:00

Oilsands threaten caribou, experts warn
Montreal Gazette
By MIKE DE SOUZA, Canwest News ServiceFebruary 2, 2010 The oilsands could wipe out threatened woodland caribou in northern Alberta if regulators fail to ...
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The Canadian Press

Aboriginals push back over hunting rules on caribou, polar bears in the North
The Canadian Press
Last fall, Yukon ruled that hunting of the Porcupine caribou herd - thought to have declined from 178000 to 100000 animals over the last 20 years - would be ...
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Woodland caribou under threat in oilsands area, group says
Montreal Gazette
By Mike De Souza, Canwest News ServiceFebruary 2, 2010 1:03 AM The oilsands could wipe out threatened woodland caribou populations in northern Alberta if ...
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Caribou killing trial begins in Point Hope
Arctic Sounder
Eight men were accused in the highly publicized caribou waste case. This week just three, Chester Koonuk, 30, Roy Miller, 20 and Aqquilluk Hank, 31, ...
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Labrador's new national park
TheChronicleHerald.ca
"Certainly those areas are important for woodland caribou and wolverine, both wide-ranging species." The group said protecting the boreal region will also ...
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Caribou hunters' traditional practice violated state law, judge rules
Arctic Sounder
In his concluding remarks Judge Richard Erlich took pains to honor the three men who, out of eight charged for the caribou waste in 2008, were the only ones ...
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Ottawa creates massive new park in Labrador
Globe and Mail
Conservation Canada says the move should shield threatened populations of caribou, harlequin ducks and other bird species from development in the region. ...
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BC aboriginals in court to save threatened caribou herd from coal mine
The Canadian Press
VICTORIA, BC — A First Nation group from northeast BC has gone to court to fight to protect a tiny, endangered caribou herd from a potential coal mine ...
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Caribou Hunt Gone Wrong Brings Town's First Trial : NPR
This week in Alaska, three native hunters went on trial for leaving behind caribou carcasses after they were killed. The trial was in Point Hope, ...

Caribou - Odessa | RCRD LBL | Free MP3 Downloads
(more) collision with a litigious wrestler, Dan SnaithÂ's (aka Caribou) musical life has followed anything but a predictable trajectory. (less) ...

Woodland Caribou Under Threat in Oilsands Area, Group Says ...
OTTAWA - The oilsands could wipe out threatened woodland caribou populations in northern Alberta if regulators fail to protect the boreal forest and its ...

Caribou News: some unusual stories in this backlog

2010-02-03T16:59:00.000-08:00

Hey folks, I'm a little backlogged in the caribou news...there are a lot of items, but there are some odd stories in this bunch: missing zoo 'bou? caribou arson victim? Rudolph the red-nosed female? Ghost caribou? read on...

Porcupine caribou herd plan in the works
CBC.ca
The Yukon government imposed temporary caribou hunting restrictions last year, due to concerns about the herd's declining numbers. ...

Caribou jury jilted
Alaska Dispatch
Criminal cases were brought against the Point Hope residents following an investigation into dozens of dead caribou left behind after a July 2008 hunt, ...
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Charges reduced for defendant in caribou wasting case
Anchorage Daily News
By JAMES HALPIN Documents filed on the brink of the trial in the Point Hope caribou waste case indicate another of the accused will plead guilty to a ...
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Lift NWT caribou hunting ban, Dene chiefs demand
CBC.ca
1, in an effort to slow what officials say is a decline in the Bathurst caribou herd population. (CBC) Dene leaders are calling on the Northwest Territories ...
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Dene leaders back caribou hunter in no-hunt zone
CBC.ca
The NWT government banned all hunting in the Bathurst caribou herd's winter range on Jan. 1, as part of its efforts to slow down the herd's decline. ...
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New rules for mining will impact caribou habitat
Vancouver Sun
By LARRY PYNN, Vancouver SunJanuary 10, 2010 The provincial government has changed the requirements for mining companies operating in threatened caribou ...
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Baffin Island caribou sightings few: Inuit
CBC.ca
Caribou populations tend to fluctuate depending on the presence of vegetation and predators, but Inuit hunters say caribou are also sensitive to loud noise ...
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Caribou numbers a major concern in 2009
Slave River Journal
JAN.10 While governments and organizations had worried about caribou for several years, late 2009 was when concerned talk finally turned into action. ...
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Teen arrested in Shamattawa fire; second victim a caribou
Winnipeg Free Press
Shamattawa Chief Jeff Napoakesik said RCMP told him one set of remains belonged to a caribou. The second set of remains located in the homes' rubble belong ...
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Only ghosts of caribou move through our woods
Seacoastonline.com
At the end of the 1800's Cornelia Crosby raised her rifle, took careful aim at a caribou and pulled the trigger. With a mighty boom that echoed in the woods ...
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Moose or Caribou? Manhattanites Busted For Animal Ignorance After Lower East ...
DNAinfo
Or a caribou? When a large animal bust reportedly fell off the wall of a Lower East Side restaurant and struck a woman on the head, many press reports ...
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Lawsuit Over Loose Moose Abuse at White Slab Palace!
Gothamist
Oh, and the Daily News has already heard from one taxidermy nerd who insists Kumra was not hit by a moose—he insists it's a caribou head, but "Lawsuit Over ...
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Sledders sacrifice for Caribou
www.kamloopsnews.ca
By CAM FORTEMS Government calls it a balance, but high country snowmobile enthusiasts say they've sacrificed to protect mountain caribou. ...
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Snowmobilers agree code of conduct for caribou : Columbia Valley News
By CVNews
Snowmobile clubs in the Thompson, Kootenay and Cariboo regions of British Columbia have signed stewardship management agreements with the Province that will support the recovery of the mountain caribou population, announced Environment ...
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Rudolph Was a Woman, and Other Odd Truths About Reindeer
FOXNews
"The caribou is central to the normal function of northern ecosystems," Justina Ray, executive director of Wildlife Conservation Society-Canada, ...
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From Backyards to Backwoods: Thinking of reindeer, caribou, red noses
Park Rapids Enterprise
Are reindeer and caribou just two different names for the same animal? I found that, basically they are the same. They both live in the far north regions, ...
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Caribou Disappears from NYS Zoo on Christmas Eve
Newzjunky.com
24, 2009 — It was discovered early Christmas eve that our Caribou has mysteriously disappeared from his pen. John Scott Foster, executive director of the ...
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ONTARIO: Bou needs your help to protect Boreal woodland caribou
Canada Views
Ontario's Boreal woodland caribou are losing space to live, fast. In fact, the caribou's rate of habitat loss is about 35000 square km per decade. ...
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Caribou in spotlight at hullabazoo
WatertownDailyTimes.com
Ms. Bernard took zoo-goers on a 30-minute enrichment program where children and parents learned about elk and caribou. Children had the opportunity to feed ...
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Conservation groups scoff at Alberta's caribou plan
Slave River Journal
DEC.09 With Alberta's woodland caribou herds continuing their decades-long decline in numbers, the Alberta government has created a plan to stabilize the ...
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Cleaning things up for the holiday season
Glens Falls Post-Star
North American caribou interbreed freely with Asian or northern European reindeer. There are three subspecies of American caribou. ...
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Caribou Bounce Back in Yukon
The story of the Yukon Government's successful intervention with the Chisana caribou herd demonstrates there are alternatives that can give caribou a chance ...

Project Caribou: translation, updates and reprint!

2010-01-27T10:28:00.000-08:00

Hello Project Caribou fans: your input sought for a new edition...

Many of you will have heard the news…Project Caribou (www.projectcaribou.net) is on the way to being translated into French! A big "merci" to Diane Ostiguy and the QC Ministry of Natural Resources and Wildlife for this contribution.

Along with this comes a great opportunity to do the updates and re-issue of which we have been considering over the last year. There will be some revisions being made in the main text (including a section on climate change effects) but most changes will be made in the Contacts, Resources and Case Studies sections.
Your input on any of the revisions are invited! Contributions of new case studies would be welcome.

Please contact olivia.hell@gov.yk.ca with your input.

By the end of March, we should have a revised English document (and the French language version) ready for posting and/or reprinting. Your thoughts on hard copy? Do we need "dead tree" versions or are PDFs sufficient? Does anyone have funds for assisting with reprints?

Look forward to hearing from you.

Remy

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Mr. Remy Rodden
Manager, Environmental Education and Youth Programs
Yukon Department of Environment (V-18)
Box 2703, Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2C6
(867) 667-3675 or 1-800-661-0408
Fax (867) 393-6206
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FW: Google Alert - caribou

2009-12-01T12:36:00.001-08:00

VOCM

Illegal Caribou Hunting ongoing in Labrador
VOCM
Conservation Officials in Labrador believe as many as 165 caribou may have been taken in an illegal hunt near Churchill Falls. Authorities say more than 200 ...
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The Sportsman's World: Looking ahead to deer season
Fulton Valley News (subscription)
I've just started making plans for a Caribou hunting trip next fall. If everything works out, I would like to take Tyler with me. ...
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Northern News Services (subscription)

City weighs in on caribou hunt
Northern News Services (subscription)
Falling caribou numbers have lead to a joint governmental proposal to limit the hunt but the City of Yellowknife wants the economic impact of the proposal ...
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Wildlife Officials Warn About Chronic Wasting Disease
MPBN News
The warning comes after nine hunters brought 18 caribou harvested in Canada into Maine without taking proper steps to avoid the spread of the infectious ...
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CBC.ca

Caribou killing continues in closed hunting zone
CBC.ca
Innu hunters have been killing caribou in an area of central Labrador this week that has been closed permanently to hunters to protect the endangered Red ...
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NL wildlife officials say Innu hunting for caribou in closed area
The Canadian Press
JOHN'S, NL — Wildlife officials in Labrador are trying to determine what caribou herds Innu hunters have been targeting this week. ...
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Caribout in the News November 2009

2009-11-18T15:50:00.000-08:00

Official claims of declining caribou a deliberate hoax, says outfitter
The Canadian Press
YELLOWKNIFE — Caribou herds aren't shrinking; scientists are just looking in the wrong place. That's the opinion of some aboriginal elders and at least one ...
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Trial for Point Hope caribou killing delayed
TheNewsTribune.com
The trial of the men accused of wasting caribou during a hunt near Point Hope, scheduled to begin this month, has been pushed back, according to court ...
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West Moberly First Nations files caribou petition with BC Supreme Court
Energeticcity.ca
West Moberly First Nations wants the BC Supreme Court to overrule a government decision that allows mining in caribou habitat. In September, the Ministry of ...
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First Nation Takes BC to Court to Protect the Last 11 Caribou From Coal Mining
SYS-CON Media (press release)
"Since 2008, we have been struggling to protect the last 11 remaining caribou of the Burnt Pine caribou herd from extinction. So it was a sad day when MEMPR ...
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Teacher recalls mass caribou kill
Alaska Dispatch
Editor's note: When Point Hope teacher Kurt Schmidt discovered dozens of dead caribou on the tundra near the village in summer 2008, he was outraged. ...

Caribou investigation raises more questions than it answers
Alaska Dispatch
ANALYSIS: Nobody knows how many caribou died in the Lisburne Hills outside of Point Hope in July 2008. Nobody knows who killed them all. ...
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Some First Nations oppose Yukon caribou hunting rules
CBC.ca
Some First Nations governments near the Dempster Highway are unhappy with the Yukon government's new hunting restrictions for the Porcupine caribou herd, ...
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Judge grants delay in caribou waste case
Alaska Dispatch
The eight village hunters were charged in March with the wasteful killing of caribou during a July 2008 hunt. State Troopers investigating the case have ...
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IPY Caribou - Home

2009-11-17T14:54:00.000-08:00

IPY Caribou - Home: "Welcome to IPYCaribou.ca

Northern leaders identified the concept of “community resilience” as a priority research focus to build capacity for Arctic community health and sustainability. The hypothesis guiding the ACRC project is that resilience and adaptive capacity of Arctic communities can be understood by investigating a series of reciprocal community-land (natural resource) relationships that exist across the North. The research question is: How will Arctic Aboriginal communities continue to be resilient and healthy in relation to the social and ecological changes which threaten important human-environment relationships now and in the future?"

Caribou News

2009-10-23T16:37:00.000-07:00

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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IPY Caribou - Home

2009-10-21T15:09:00.000-07:00

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:

Mighty caribou herds dwindle, warming blamed

2009-10-07T16:16:00.000-07:00

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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Caribou in the News July 2011

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Caribou Fences Interactive

Animal Antics - The Barren-ground Caribou

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Caribou in the News end of October 2010

Caribou Herd Ranges - Environment Yukon Map Collection

Flying in Caribou Country brochure

A Troubling Decline in the Caribou Herds of the Arctic by Ed Struzik: Yale Environment 360

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My national animal: the noble caribou - The Globe and Mail

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Read more about our National Symbols project

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Yukon Caribou genetics research

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Caribou News

Caribou News: some unusual stories in this backlog

Project Caribou: translation, updates and reprint!

FW: Google Alert - caribou

Caribout in the News November 2009

IPY Caribou - Home

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Mighty caribou herds dwindle, warming blamed