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Global warming tied to Arctic caribou decline
(Source - Ed Struzik, The Province, see below) Warm, wet winters and hot, dry summers reduce numbers. In the summer of 1996, biologist Frank Miller was flying along the coast of Bathurst Island searching for Peary caribou, found only in the High Arctic of Canada, when he spied a dark spot on the sea ice.
Flying [...]
Posted: May 14th, 2008 under Canada, Caribou, climate change.
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Sami and the Baffin Reindeer Experiment
(From CBC North, 03042008) This historical photo from an Iqaluit museum shows Saami with a reindeer on Baffin Island in the 1920s. (Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum)
A Saami woman from northern Norway has followed the travels of her ancestors to Nunavut, looking for what happened to hundreds of reindeer that were relocated from Norway to Baffin Island [...]
Posted: April 17th, 2008 under Canada, Reindeer, Reindeer Herders, Sapmi.
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Canada’s Only Reindeer Herd Is Missing
(This article from CBC News 08.01.2008) More than 3,000 reindeer in the Northwest Territories have somehow disappeared, leaving herders scrambling to find them and prompting concerns about what threats the lost reindeer may pose to wild caribou.
The territory’s only reindeer herd inhabits the northern part of the N.W.T., living unsupervised on Richards Island near Tuktoyaktuk [...]
Posted: January 11th, 2008 under Canada, Caribou, Reindeer, Reindeer Herders.
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