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Canadian Wetland Inventory using Google Earth Engine: The First Map and Preliminary Results
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Although wetlands provide valuable services to humans and the environment and cover a large portion of Canada, there is currently no Canada-wide wetland inventory based on the specifications defined...
Community-led Planning for Caribou: Changing How We Do Conservation
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March 23rd, 2022 at 10:00am MST to March 23rd, 2022 at 12:00pm MST
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The Indigenous Knowledge Circle of the National Boreal Caribou Knowledge Consortium invites you to join this workshop to learn about the community-led caribou planning being led by the Sahtú Renewable...
Decision-support Tools to Assess Cumulative Effects on the Cape Bathurst, Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula, Bluenose-West, and Bluenose-East Herds of Barren-ground Caribou – Project Summary Report
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This report summarizes a project whose purpose was to collaboratively develop decision-support tools that will help northern decision-makers review, explore, and learn about the cumulative effects of...
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Fall Supplemental Feeding Increases Population Growth Rate of an Endangered Caribou Herd
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Our results support the recommendation that multiple management actions should be implemented to improve recovery prospects for caribou.
Human-induced Behavioural Changes of Global Threatened Terrestrial Mammals
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Abstract Aim: Understanding changes in the behaviour of threatened species responding to rapidly increasing human disturbances is critical for biodiversity conservation. Here, we synthesize a meta...
Łeghagots'enete ́, (Learning Together): The Importance of Indigenous Perspectives in the Identification of Biological Variation
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Using multiple knowledge sources to interpret patterns of biodiversity can generate the comprehensive species characterizations that are required for effective conservation strategies. Caribou...
Literature Review and Interviews: Indigenous Ways of Knowing Boreal Caribou Populations
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Boreal caribou are an important animal for First Nations and Métis communities in almost all regions of the NWT. Hunters and Elders have comprehensive traditional knowledge about past and current...
Northern Caribou Canada
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About the Northern Caribou Canada: Who This is a project of the Wekʼèezhìi Renewable Resources Board in collaboration with the organizations, governments, and agencies listed on the bottom of the page...
NWT Conference of Management Authorities: Consensus Agreement on Listing Northern Mountain Caribou
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This 11 page document is the agreement by the NWT management authorities responsible for the northern population of mountain caribou (woodland caribou in northern mountain habitat) to add the caribou...
Prompt Rewetting of Drained Peatlands Reduces Climate Warming Despite Methane Emissions
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Peatlands are strategic areas for climate change mitigation because of their matchless carbon stocks. Drained peatlands release this carbon to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide (CO2). Peatland...
Recent Climate Change has Driven Divergent Hydrological Shifts in High-latitude Peatlands
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High-latitude peatlands are changing rapidly in response to climate change, including permafrost thaw. Here, we reconstruct hydrological conditions since the seventeenth century using testate amoeba...
Sahtú Environmental Management Decision-Support Project
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Project Description: ALCES models future changes based on known environment and landscape cover, an understanding of historic changes, and projected indicators of change to the environment, human...
Sahtú Environmental Models Presentation
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ALCES models future changes based on known environment and landscape cover, an understanding of historic changes, and projected indicators of change to the environment, human footprint and landscape.
Sahtú Ragóɂa (Hunting Law) and Approaches to Wildlife Harvesting: Report on the Colville 2020 Public Listening (Hearing) Session Report and Reasons for Decision
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In April 2019, in response to conservation concerns about the three caribou ecotypes that inhabit or travel through the Sahtú region, Ɂehdzo Got’ı̨nę Gots’ę́ Nákedı (Sahtú Renewable Resources Board –...
Sahtu Regional Environmental Decision Support Tool Set
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Sahtú Environmental Research and Monitoring (ERM) Forum meeting presentation of the Sahtu Regional Environmental Decision Support Tool Set.
Saving Endangered Species Using Adaptive Management
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Adaptive management is a powerful means of learning about complex ecosystems, but is rarely used for recovering endangered species. Here, we demonstrate how it can benefit woodland caribou, which...