Caribou in the News -- November 3, 2005

U.S. Senate deep-sixes ANWR protection motion
Last updated Nov 3 2005 11:53 AM CSTCBC News
An attempt to protect Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil exploration has failed in the U.S. Senate. An amendment to the budget bill that would.....

BC government faces dilemma over threatened tiny Mountain Caribou ...
Winnipeg Sun - Canada
VICTORIA (CP) - The BC government is facing a difficult decision on what to do about threatened caribou herds that have roamed the province's mountainous ...

Caribou in the News -- October 31, 2005

Here's a smattering of news and views on the Internet over the last couple of months...

Canadians Beg Americans to Stop Drilling in the Refuge
www. BeingCaribou.com The 2006 U.S. Budget contains language to open the Refuge to drilling. But the Budget is still not reconciled, the Refuge is still not open, the caribou reached the calving grounds to calve and rest and are now on their epic journey back through bug-infested tundra to...

Caribou herds may be abandoned
Globe and Mail - Canada VANCOUVER -- Some of the world's last herds of mountain caribou could be abandoned and left to die out under a provincial government action plan being studied ...

Opponents slam plan to allow off-road vehicle use along Dalton
Anchorage Daily News - Anchorage,AK,USA... a public comment session Tuesday argued that lifting the long-standing ban would damage the area's landscape, increase hunting pressure on caribou and moose ...

National Park news
Jasper Booster - Jasper,Alberta,Canada... The fall caribou count for South Jasper and the Whitegoat Wilderness area was recently completed. Parks biologists spotted 82 caribou ...

A lip-service energy policy
Minnesota Daily - Minneapolis,MN,USA... shipment. Of course, the only reason ANWR has not been opened yet is because environmentalists say we risk upsetting a few caribou. ...

Conference brings attention to global warming
KTUU - Anchorage,AK,USA... When herds of hoofed animals like caribou or reindeer roam the tundra, they of course have to eat. The Native people who hunt these ...

Protestors rally against ANWR drilling
Sun Star Newspaper - Fairbanks,AK,USA... at ANWR.". "Caribou may be at risk," said Frank Maxwell, a member of the Northern Alaska Environmental Center. "Their vegetation ...

Sierra Club criticizes Parks' caribou plan
Jasper Booster - Jasper,Alberta,Canada... Booster -- The Sierra Club of Canada is criticizing Parks Canada for taking inadequate measures in the restoration and protection of woodland caribou herds in ...

Stop Selling Our Heritage for Crooked Oil: Save Arctic Wildlife ...
Collective Bellaciao - Paris,France... Far from being the frozen "desert" some suggest, this is a rich, Serengeti-like haven of life: nursery for caribou, polar bears, walruses and millions of ...

‘Truth' About ANWR: Tell It All, Sarah James
Human Events - USA... A poor Alaskan native tribe, calling itself "the Caribou people," fights desperately to save the Porcupine Caribou herd, which roams the region, providing ...

Caribou in the News August 18, 2005

Lawsuit filed to help endangered caribou
Seattle Times - United States
SPOKANE -- Only a handful of endangered caribou remain in the remote Selkirk Mountains near the Canadian border, and a federal-court lawsuit filed yesterday ...

Conservation Groups Call on Forest Service to Save Woodland ...
Defenders of Wildlife (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
Washington, DC -- With the entire US population of Woodland Caribou down to as few as three animals, a coalition of conservation groups led by Defenders of ...

Caribou in the News -- August 5, 2005

Lingerie and caribou
Macleans - Toronto,ON,Canada
At first glance, the thrusting female bosom would seem to have nothing in common with a grazing woodland caribou. And yet, the two ...

Logging roads bad for caribou: outfitter
CBC - Newfoundland & Labrador - St. John's,Newfoundland,Canada
Outfitters say the island's caribou population is being disrupted by an increase in logging roads. Wayne Holloway, an outfitter ...

Minister to sign deal protecting caribou herd
Globe and Mail - Canada
The calving grounds for one of Canada's largest caribou herds will come under stronger protection today when Environment Minister Stéphane Dion signs an ...

Impact and benefit plan signed to expand Tuktut Nogait National ...
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada... "By expanding the park into the Sahtu Settlement Area, we are providing additional protection to the habitat of the Bluenose caribou herd, which is so ...