CircumArctic Collaboration to Monitor Caribou and Wild Reindeer

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Russell, Don E., Gunn, Anne, White, Robert G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2015
• Subjects: caribou; circumpolar; CircumArctic Rangifer Monitoring and Assessment (CARMA); monitoring; management; circumpolaire; surveillance; gestion; Renne; Arctic; toundra; Tundra; renne
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/67538

Caribou and wild reindeer (Rangifer) are integral to ecology and Aboriginal lives and culture in circumArctic regions. Since reaching peak size in the 1990s, most herds have been declining, while their ranges are changing as the footprint of people’s activities expands and the climate warms. More th...