A unique feeding program for an at-risk B.C. caribou herd appears to have helped the population more than double its numbers over the last decade.

More precipitation in the winter can interfere with caribou feeding, and warmer summer temperatures mean bigger plants grow that crowd out the lichen that caribou eat.

The Best Way to Save Caribou Can’t Just Be Killing Wolves ... Which inevitably leads back to killing wolves, penning vulnerable caribou cows and their calves, caribou-feeding and other measures.

Locals say the caribou have cycled up and down for centuries. Biologists say the herd peaked in the 1990s at about 200,000 animals but has declined to fewer than 13,000.

Mostly people subsisted on what they hunted and fished. Inland dwellers took advantage of caribou feeding on tundra mosses, lichens, and plants too tough for humans to stomach (though predigested ...

Caribou, or tutu in Inupiat, traverse the snowy heart of Alaska’s Brooks Range.Each spring, caribou all across the North American Arctic begin extraordinary migrations toward their calving grounds.

Caption: Caribou cluster around a feeding trough filled with specially designed pellets in Kennedy Siding, B.C., on Nov. 23, 2023. (Catherine Hansen/CBC News) Load Image ...