Boreal Caribou Resources

Imagine COVID-19 emerged not from Wuhan, China, a city of 11 million people, but in rural Mongolia or Siberia. How long would it have been before we identified this new pathogen in people? Dr. Susan...

Canada’s provinces and territories govern species at risk across most of Canada, with the federal Species at Risk Act generally covering only aquatic species, migratory birds, and species living on...

To develop effective management to maintain or restore populations of large herbivores, wildlife managers require sound empirical data on their variations in size and associated parameters. Many...

Large-scale genotyping platforms are currently being developed for several wild species. By querying thousands of polymorphic loci, genomics can be a useful ecological tool for describing and...

Anthropogenic habitat loss and fragmentation are major threats to ecosystems and a focus in conservation. However, conservation is often limited to considerations of site-level processes neglecting...

This article from The Narwhal uses Ontario’s southernmost caribou herd to illustrate how hard it is to bring a species back from the brink — and why we need to recognize tipping points before we reach...

Migratory caribou ( Rangifer tarandus sspp.) is an ecotype of conservation concern that is experiencing increased cumulative stressors associated with rapid climate change and development in Arctic...

Traditional Knowledge (TK) is increasingly valued in long-term monitoring of wildlife health, particularly in northern Canada where Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) may represent a threat to valued...

Monitoring of individual animal health indices in wildlife populations can be a powerful tool for evaluation of population health, detecting changes, and informing management decisions. Standardized...

Effective ecological monitoring is central to the sustainability of subsistence resources of indigenous communities. For caribou, Arctic indigenous people's most important terrestrial subsistence...