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Saving the endangered caribou
Topic Started: Jun 18 2007, 04:26 AM (28 Views)
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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, relentless escalation of global warming is taking its toll.

It is global warming that is threatening a caribou herd known as the Peary caribou, which inhabit the islands of the High Arctic at the southern end of Ellesmere Island.

Canada's most northerly caribou may end up on the endangered species list, despite objections from the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board. In a recent letter to the board, Environment Minister John Baird said his department is moving ahead with plans to list the Peary caribou of the High Arctic as a species at risk.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/caribou/
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