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In a 2011 article entitled, "Northern caribou population trends in Canada", researchers listed herds/populations including 35 northern caribou herds across the Canadian Arctic. [65] Names in the following table reflect the international consensus [8] before the recent revision. [19] #
The 2017/2018 wolf population count is anticipated to reveal approximately 20 wolves present on the island. [20] The decline in the caribou population as resulting from the presence of the wolves has raised the concern that the caribou population is in danger of extirpation [19] as soon as the winter of 2017/2018. [21] [needs update]
This can be seen well in North America, where the northernmost subspecies, the Peary caribou, is the whitest and smallest subspecies of the continent, while the Selkirk Mountains caribou (Southern Mountain population DU9) [124] is the darkest and nearly the largest, [119] only exceeded in size by Osborn's caribou (Northern Mountain population DU7).
The migratory woodland caribou refers to two herds of Rangifer tarandus (known as caribou in North America) that are included in the migratory woodland ecotype of the subspecies Rangifer tarandus caribou or woodland caribou [1] [2] that live in Nunavik, Quebec, and Labrador: the Leaf River caribou herd (LRCH) [3] [4] and the George River caribou herd (GRCH) south of Ungava Bay.
The Peary caribou (Rangifer arcticus pearyi) is a subspecies of caribou found in the Canadian high Arctic islands of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories in Canada. They are the smallest of the North American caribou, with the females weighing an average of 60 kg (130 lb) and the males 110 kg (240 lb). [ 3 ]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Carcross had a population of 317 living in 168 of its 229 total private dwellings, a change of 5.3% from its 2016 population of 301. With a land area of 15.56 km 2 (6.01 sq mi), it had a population density of 20.4/km 2 (52.8/sq mi) in 2021. [15] Carcross 4 (self-government)
In Canada, the Committee on Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) defined 12 "designatable units", DU, which included the above named subspecies and several ecotypes: Peary caribou DU1, the Dolphin-Union herd of barren-ground caribou DU2, mainland barren-ground (including Alaskan) caribou DU3, Labrador caribou ("eastern migratory ...
Despite these protections afforded to it under the legislation, the mountain caribou declined quickly in number. [3] As the South Selkirk herd languished despite these protections, the US Fish and Wildlife Service augmented the herd from its Canadian brethren in the 1990s, raising population levels to 100.