Tag: Caribou
Saving the endangered caribou
Caribou have been a crucial food source for Canada’s northern indigenous people from time immemorial. But their population is dwindling at an alarming rate, in no small part because of improved hunting equipment — including snowmobiles — as well as exploration work for oil and gas reserves and arctic diamond mines. And now, the slow, [...]
Endangered designation no slam dunk
Final determination on Peary caribou to be made by federal cabinet.
