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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