Good year for barren ground caribou0
- Environment
- January 10, 2012
Considering the dire straits barren ground caribou had been in over the previous few years, 2011 was a pretty good year for conservationists and hunters alike.
READ MOREConsidering the dire straits barren ground caribou had been in over the previous few years, 2011 was a pretty good year for conservationists and hunters alike.
READ MORETwo of North America’s endangered whooping cranes were shot and killed by hunters in Louisiana last month, reducing the numbers of the meager population currently being nurtured back to stability.
READ MOREOver half of the Wood Buffalo-Aransas flock of whooping cranes has arrived on the wintering grounds in and around the Aransas Wildlife Refuge on the Gulf Coast in Texas.
READ MOREA new study casts doubt on the longstanding belief that the Beverly caribou herd, which used to roam as far south as Fort Chipewyan, has dwindled in numbers to the point it has nearly disappeared.
READ MORE“We talk about wildlife management, but really we should talk about people management,” said Alistair Bath, a professor of geography with Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland.
READ MOREDeclines in boreal caribou populations in the Hay River Lowlands and Cameron Hills may be linked to seismic lines cutting up their preferred habitat, said Allicia Kelly, biologist for the South Slave with GNWT’s department of Environment and Natural Resources (ENR).
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