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A decision to list Boreal caribou and Peary caribou on the Northwest Territories List of Species at Risk for another ten years was recently made by the Conference of Management Authorities. The...
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This is the first collaborative, landscape range restoration project of this scale in Canada, with Golder leading this group of stakeholders through the development of the project permitting, barriers...
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National Boreal Caribou Knowledge Consortium
Monitoring of the Threatened woodland caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou ) boreal population (hereafter boreal caribou) presents many challenges, as boreal caribou are broadly distributed in densely...
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Government of Northwest Territories
In 2014, boreal caribou in the NWT were listed as a Threatened species under the NWT Species at Risk Act and a NWT Recovery Strategy was prepared to guide boreal caribou recovery actions. One of the...
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Government of Northwest Territories
Overall, the population of boreal caribou in the NWT is considered stable, but there are declines in some areas of the Dehcho region. This year, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources...
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January
2020
Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) initiated the Western Boreal Program in 1997 with an understanding that working with forward thinking forest industry partners was key to advancing wetland conservation in...
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The British Columbia government has extended its wolf cull by another five years in an effort to help recover dwindling caribou populations in the province. The cull was implemented in 2015 to reduce...
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The British Columbia government has released the results of its Predator Reduction for Caribou Recovery Engagement Survey. Input was sought from stakeholders, interest groups, and citizens to inform...
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Results of the public engagement process regarding proposed management measures to support boreal caribou recovery outlined in British Columbia’s Draft Boreal Caribou Protection and Recovery Plan are...
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Conservation biologists invest a huge amount of time reviewing camera trap images, and – even worse – a huge fraction of that time is spent reviewing images they aren't interested in. This primarily...
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A 22 slide presentation (exported as a pdf) providing an overview of effects of wind turbine development on Caribou.
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A new $24 million matchmaking program is aiming to help rebuild caribou populations in Jasper National Park that are too small to recover on their own. The federal government announced Tuesday that...
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Caribou herds in Jasper National Park are at risk. Without intervention, the only two herds remaining predominantly within Jasper will disappear. Parks Canada envisions a future with caribou herds...
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The Caribou Recovery Pilot Project has been established to further develop the concept of a predator-free fenced area to support a small breeding population of woodland caribou (the Pilot). The Pilot...
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December
2017
The primary objective of the Pilot is to establish and maintain a small breeding population of caribou in a fenced predator-free exclosure within their natural habitat in northeast Alberta. The intent...
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Ronnie Drever
Maria Strack
Kristy Burke
Learn more about the recent work of two renowned Canadian researchers and how their work has benefited from various collaborations and communication across diverse stakeholder groups
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The Cumulative Environmental Management Association (CEMA) was a leading multi-stakeholder group operating in the heart of Canada’s boreal forest - the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, Alberta...
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Amy Christianson
Colin Sutherland
Faisal Moola
Noémie Bautista
David Young
Heather MacDonald
Indigenous perspectives have often been overlooked in fire management in North America. With a focus on the boreal region of North America, this paper provides a review of the existing literature...
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Forest fire is the primary natural disturbance process influencing the distribution and abundance of terrestrial lichens across ranges of woodland caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou), including the...
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Barbara Frei
Amelia R. Cox
Ana C. Morales
Christian Roy
Climate change has well-documented, yet variable, influences on the annual movements of migratory birds. The effects of climate change on fall migration remains understudied compared with spring but...