Restrictions on Inuit subsistence harvest (harvest quotas or bans) are currently enacted on at least six northern caribou herds/populations with potential consequences for country food access for over twenty-five Inuit communities across Canada. A holistic multi-sectorial approach is needed to ensure ...
The Beverly and Qamanirjuaq herds are two of the largest barren-ground caribou herds in Canada, but their numbers have gone down over the last 30 years. Management Plan Priorities Watching the Caribou Natural and human-caused factors such as climate change, diseases and parasites, disturbance,...
CanadaAlaskasubsistenceco-managementLarge herds of caribou (Rangifer tarandus) in Canada, Alaska, and Russia that winter in northern coniferous forests and summer in tundra of the Arctic have provided a sustainable source of meat and other products for indigenous peoples for thousands of years. ...
Domesticated reindeer were introduced into Alaska from Siberia in the 1890s and became essential to the economy of the Alaskan Eskimo. Herds were established in Canada in the 1930s. Reindeer are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Artiodactyla, family Cervi...
Caribou were economically important for both subsistence and sport hunting, so Banfield (1954) and Kelsall (1957) in-vestigated caribou herds in Canada’s Northwest Terri-tories. Because caribou form the main prey of wolves in that area, caribou studies automatically involved the in-teractions ...
FIGURE 1.Approximate summer ranges of four caribou herds in arctic Alaska and details of the oil-field complexes in the Prudhoe Bay-Kuparuk region (inset). The Western Arctic Herd (WAH) ranges from the western Arctic Coastal Plain southward across the Brooks Range to the Seward Peninsula; most...
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Wolves ( Canis lupus) are the main predator of barren-ground caribou; however, the extent that wolves influence the decline and recovery of caribou herds is unknown. Such uncertainty confounds management responses (e.g., reducing harvest, predator control). We investigated wolf-caribou dynamics ...
These large animals have played an important economic role in Canada and Alaska, where they are still reasonably abundant, and many people enjoy seeing herds in the wild when they visit these regions. Along with other arctic animals, caribou have developed a number of unique traits which make ...
Caribou live in Arctic regions in North America, Europe, and Asia. The name Caribou comes from the Mi’Kmaq (a first nations people) word “qualipu” or “one who paws”. Caribou herds can migrate as far as 5000 km in search of food. ...