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Caribou, migrating birds and many other types of wildlife rely on this expanse of wetlands and tundra. Humanity and the ...
The CETB data set is hosted and distributed through NASA’s NSIDC Snow and Ice Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC).
Harvesters, conservationists and scientists have technology and duct tape to thank for the success of the latest survey on ...
According to the Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou Management Board, a population survey conducted in 2023 and published earlier this year estimated there are now 153,000 animals in the Beverly herd — ...
The Trump administration announced a plan on June 17 to open nearly 82% of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to oil and ...
In 2023, scientists were conducting an aerial survey of the Beverly caribou herd when its photography plane suffered mechanical issues. So the surveyors taped their cellphones inside the plane ...
A new push for more oil and gas drilling, mining, and logging threatens irreparable damage to irreplaceable habitats.
It's a culmination of 32 years of recovery efforts that helped the herds' bounce back from roughly 1,000 individuals in 1993, to nearly 5,000 as of 2019. Southern Lakes caribou include four herds — ...
A caribou from the Ibex herd in 2020, wearing a GPS collar used to help track the animals and monitor the herd. (Government of Yukon) By Tori Fitzpatrick.
When the author and his buddy get turned around out on the tundra, they think they can easily find their way back to camp.
First Nations youth in the Yukon’s Southern Lakes region may soon have the opportunity to hunt a caribou for the first time in their lives. That's after nine government leaders signed the Southern ...