Caribou migration patterns are shrinking Habitat loss and declining population affecting caribou travel between locations Date: March 6, 2025 Source: University of British Columbia Okanagan campus ...

Beyond impacts to migration, habitat disturbance—which has disrupted predator-prey dynamics—is a primary cause of caribou population declines,” says Dr. Ford.

Barren ground caribou undertake nature's longest overland migration, traveling as far as 800 miles each year to reach their spring calving grounds in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Canada ...

As the U.S. government mandates drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Gwich’in people in northern Yukon ...

I want to talk about the fall caribou migration that I grew up with. In Sisualik, there were several families that lived there in spring, summer, fall.

Several local subsistence advisory councils suggested changing the annual harvest limit to 15 animals to make sure local families have enough food on the table and enough meat to share with those ...

Of the 33 caribou fitted with radio collars during the fall 2021 migration, none spent the following winter in the Seward Peninsula’s Bering Land Bridge National Monument, according to ...

The isolated Alaska village was settled around 1950 by once nomadic Nunamiut people who wanted to remain close to the caribou migration. This is the cycle of respect and return and renewal.

After a long-fought campaign, Alaskans and national park advocates from across the country successfully blocked the proposed 211-mile Ambler mining road — twice this year. This industrial project ...

Humans are not the only creatures bothered by mosquitoes and flies. They harass caribou so much that earlier this month, about 300,000 of the animals huddled closely together in Northwest Alaska ...