The northern part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge between the Brooks Range and the Arctic Ocean is a large flat area. This is where the Porcupine caribou give birth to their young. Good for them that the oil and gas leases in “Area 1002” have been...
The Klinse-Za herd, in north-eastern British Columbia, dwindled from about 250 animals to just 38 between the 1990s and 2013. But thanks to ambitious protection measures initiated by the West Moberly First Nations and Salteau First Nations, the population has begun...
After the remains of countless caribou were found on two islands in the North American Arctic in 1966 and 2016, scientists have now found the cause of the mass die-off. Photo: Ben Townsend via Flickr, CC BY 2.0 For decades, researchers puzzled over the cause of...
Caribou in the coastal plain of the “Arctic National Wildlife Refuge”. The coastal plain is the calving ground of the Porcupine caribou herds, with 85 percent of the herd births taking place in Canada. (Photo: Florian Schulz) Gwich’in leaders in the...
