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Arctic Borderlands Ecological Knowledge Cooperative: Can Local Knowledge Inform Caribou Management?
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This project looked at local knowledge of the Porcupine Caribou Herd, collected by the Arctic Borderlands Ecological Knowledge Co-op (ABEKC). While local observations indicated that the herd was...
Arctic Borderlands Ecological Knowledge Cooperative: Can Local Knowledge Inform Caribou Management?
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While quantitative analyses have traditionally been used to measure overall caribou herd health, qualitative observational data can also provide timely information that reflects what people on the...
“Caribou was the reason, and everything else happened after”: Effects of Caribou Declines on Inuit in Labrador, Canada
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Examines the critical interplay between cultural continuity and adaptive capacity for responding to ecological uncertainty based on an Inuit-led, multi-year, multi-media qualitative and visual media
Climate, Caribou and Human Needs Linked by Analysis of Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge
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Migratory tundra caribou are ecologically and culturally critical in the circumpolar North. However, they are declining almost everywhere in North America, probably due to natural variation...
Critical Summer Foraging Tradeoffs in a Subarctic Ungulate
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Summer diets are crucial for large herbivores in the subarctic and are affected by weather, harassment from insects and a variety of environmental changes linked to climate. Yet, understanding...
Documentary Release: HERD: Inuit Voices on Caribou
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A documentary film about a 99% decline of caribou and what that means for Inuit in the Nunatsiavut and NunatuKavut regions of Labrador, Canada had its Canadian broadcasting premiere of a at the...
First Scientific Data on Herd Size and Population Dynamics of the Torngat Mountains Caribou Herd
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Formal report of the results of the 2014 aerial survey of the Torngat Mountains caribou herd.
Frequently Asked Questions: The Porcupine Caribou and Development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
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An undated “frequently asked questions” document from the Yukon Government on the opening up of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (calving ground of the Porcupine caribou herd) to industrial...
Habitat Selection- Forty Mile Caribou in the Dawson Region, Late Winter
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A 30-page report from 2012 on the Yukon portion of the herd’s range. It includes discussion of the potential impacts of forest fires. This resource and others can be found on the Northern Caribou...
HERD: Inuit Voices on Caribou
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As a research initiative, the HERD project has co-created knowledge with Inuit about their relationship with caribou in the context of the population declines and hunting ban. We conducted video...
HERD: Inuit Voices on Caribou
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In the startling collapse of the once massive George River Caribou Herd - and a subsequent total hunting ban - Inuit in Labrador, Canada, were abruptly confronted with a new reality: life without a...
Improving Widescale Monitoring of Ectoparasite Presence in Northern Canadian Wildlife with the Aid of Citizen Science
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Surveying ticks on wildlife hosts consistently over time and across space presents many challenges. In Yukon, Canada, the winter tick, Dermacentor albipictus, is a blood-feeding parasite that can...
Increasing Fire Frequency and Severity Will Increase Habitat Loss for a Boreal Forest Indicator Species
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Climate change will lead to more frequent and more severe fires in some areas of boreal forests, affecting the distribution and availability of late-successional forest communities. These forest...
Inuit Co-management Led Research
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This "story" in the IPCA Knowledge Basket uses the Torngat Wildlife & Plants Co-management Board as a case study to describe and explain Indigenous co-management led research, with a focus on caribou...
Mealy Mountain Caribou Monitoring Update
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September 10th, 2020 at 10:00am AST to September 10th, 2020 at 11:00am AST
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Join Sara McCarthy, the Ecosystem Management Ecologist for the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador Wildlife Division, for a public presentation on the results of recent monitoring of the Mealy...
Mealy Mountain Tuktu Knowledge Project
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In order to better understand Inuit relationships to the Mealy Mountain (MM) herd, the long-term impacts of the hunting ban, and strategies for caribou management moving forward, this research...
Merging Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge Links Climate with the Growth of a Large Migratory Caribou Population
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Climate change in the Arctic is two to three times faster than anywhere else in the world. It is therefore crucial to understand the effects of weather on keystone arctic species, particularly those...
Monitoring of the Torngat Mountains Caribou Herd
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Project Description: Inuit of Nunavik and Nunatsiavut have long known that a small caribou population was living year-round in the Torngat Mountains. Recognizing its unique status, the Committee on...