Caribou News March 2007

Sidney company proposes giant wind farm in caribou habitat
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
VANCOUVER - An alpine wilderness in northern BC that's critical habitat to a herd of threatened mountain caribou is being proposed as the site for hundreds ...
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Proposed wind farm cited as threat to caribou
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada
An alpine wilderness in northern BC that's critical habitat to a herd of threatened mountain caribou is being proposed as the site for hundreds of ...
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Committee fighting to save Northern Peninsula pristine wilderness ...
Western Star - Corner Brook,Newfoundland and Labrador,Canada
Given the declining caribou herds in the province, this wintering and calving ground must continue to be protected, he said. “The construction of forest ...
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Caribou News February 18 2008

Land Use Plan could save caribou
Northern News Services (subscription) - Yellowknife,Northwest Territories,Canada
DEH CHO - New research findings show that unless the Dehcho Land Use Plan is implemented woodland caribou populations could be lost in the southern portion ...
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Innu hunters vow return to disputed caribou area
CBC - Newfoundland & Labrador - St. John's,Newfoundland and Labrador,Canada
A group of Innu hunters in Labrador is planning to hunt caribou in an area that government officials say is off limits. The RCMP recently seized seven ...
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Caribou News February 11, 2008

Plan only goes part way
Western Star - Corner Brook,Newfoundland and Labrador,Canada
The government has heard the warnings of a potential collapse of the province’s native caribou population from outdoors enthusiasts, outfitters and wildlife ...
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On frozen pond
ChronicleHerald.ca - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada
NORTHWEST RIVER (CP) — Two rare and historically significant caribou coats painted by Innu artisans in the late 18th century have been returned to ...
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Caribou pose a $15-million problem
Montreal Gazette - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
The Newfoundland and Labrador government will spend $15.3 million to study the rapid decline of caribou. In 1996, there were more than 96000 caribou in the ...
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Smart wildlife programs let both animals and people thrive
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada
In the 1980s, BC conducted wolf killing programs to protect moose, elk, black-tailed deer and caribou. And, as late as last year, the BC government planned ...
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No Roads, No Regrets
Washington Post - United States
We walked along ancient animal trails, over spongy tussocks, across shivery streams, in the wake of bear, wolf and caribou tracks. A rainbow halo encircled ...
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NL gov't to spend $15.3 million on strategy to halt caribou herd ...
The Canadian Press -
Environment Minister Charlene Johnson says the money will be used to build on earlier efforts to better understand and mitigate the drop in woodland caribou ...
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Caribou in the News January 30, 2008

Research means cold cash
Houston Chronicle - United States
"You get a caribou guy talking to a caribou guy and the cultural differences almost

disappear," he said. Brian Person, a wildlife biologist with the North ...
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Alta. development threatens caribou habitat: group
StarPhoenix - Saskatoon,Saskatchewan,Canada
The Alberta government is letting industrial activity intrude on the sensitive habitat of a
threatened caribou herd, says a conservation group. ...
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Wolf-Protecting Oil Drilling Opponent Rep. George Miller Stands ...
The National Center for Public Policy Research - Washington,DC,USA
But then we have to remember that the point of the predator control program is not to save
humans, but moose and caribou, animals so near and dear to the ...
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A critical shield against global warming
Globe and Mail - Canada
Canada's boreal is also home to some of the world's largest populations of grizzly
and polar bears, wolves, woodland and barren-ground caribou Future: ...
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