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The Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Canadian wildlife agencies, and local aboriginal peoples cooperatively manage the Porcupine herd. The Porcupine Caribou Management Board (PCMB) advisory board was established under the Porcupine Caribou Management Agreement in 1985, whose members include representatives from the Gwich'in Tribal Council ...
Caribou herd ranges. Porcupine caribou's 1,500 miles (2,400 km) annual land migration between their winter range in the boreal forests of Alaska and northwest Canada over the mountains to the coastal plain and their calving grounds on the Beaufort Sea coastal plain, [45] is the longest of any land mammal on earth. In 2019, the herd size was ...
The potential oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge threatens the Porcupine caribou herd's calving grounds, while climate change forces polar bears to change their hunting and denning patterns. Additionally, the unique marine ecosystem of the Arctic basin is being disturbed by industrial noise and oil exploration.
Outgoing President Joe Biden's administration billed the outcome as proof the 19 million-acre refuge, home to species including polar bears and Porcupine caribou, should remain off-limits to ...
The largest herd in North America is known as the Porcupine Caribou herd, with a population of over 200,000 reindeer recorded since 2017. Although other herds have seen a decline in their numbers ...
Male Porcupine caribou (R. t. groenlandicus) in Alaska, 2005 or earlier. The Porcupine caribou herd is transnational and migratory. The herd is named after their birthing grounds, for example, the Porcupine River, which runs through a large part of the range of the Porcupine herd. Individual herds of migratory caribou once had over a million ...
Reindeer (also known as caribou) are a member of the deer family, native to the tundra, boreal forests, and mountains of the extreme frigid north. In human culture, they are a staple of northern ...
Ivvavik National Park (/ ˈ iː v ə v ɪ k / EE-və-vik) [2] is a national park of Canada located in the Yukon.Initially named "Northern Yukon National Park," the park was renamed Ivvavik in 1992 for the Inuvialuktun word meaning "nursery" or "birthplace," [3] in reference to the importance of the area as a calving ground for Porcupine caribou.