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Caribou numbers drop 95% on Canada's Baffin Island
Posted on 5/20/13 at 11:47 pm
Posted on 5/20/13 at 11:47 pm
It isn't a small island. It's a fairly large area (196,000 sq. miles) and the caribou have virtually disappeared.
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In this day of high tech wildlife management, this is a bit concerning. This seems to have happened since this part of the NW Territories became Nunavut, the newest territory of Canada.
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New results from a caribou survey on south Baffin Island confirm what many have been saying: The animals have largely disappeared from the region.
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The data suggest the population may have declined by more than 95 per cent in the last two decades. Researchers estimate the entire South Baffin population to now be at around 1,000 to 2,000 animals.
Estimates from the early 1990s ranged from about 60,000 to 180,000, but this new survey is the first comprehensive count of the animals. Nunavut environment minister James Arreak presented the results in the Nunavut legislative assembly.
In this day of high tech wildlife management, this is a bit concerning. This seems to have happened since this part of the NW Territories became Nunavut, the newest territory of Canada.
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Posted on 5/20/13 at 11:49 pm to RogerTheShrubber
So you're saying Candians are fricking up the caribou for the rest of us?
Posted on 5/20/13 at 11:57 pm to DrTyger
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So you're saying Candians are fricking up the caribou for the rest of us?
Never known a Canadian not to be prone to fricking up. The drop does t make any sense. Is there a CWD outbreak happening up there?
This post was edited on 5/20/13 at 11:59 pm
Posted on 5/21/13 at 12:01 am to hypnos
It's a native territory. Inuit.
Posted on 5/21/13 at 7:41 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Caribou numbers drop 95% on Canada's Baffin Island
I ain't gonna stand for Nunavut.
Posted on 5/21/13 at 7:54 am to RogerTheShrubber
Have the animals migrated elsewhere or just died?
Posted on 5/21/13 at 7:54 am to s14suspense
ISWYDT
Posted on 5/21/13 at 7:57 am to s14suspense
nice Posted on 5/21/13 at 8:36 am to RogerTheShrubber
quote:What happened?
It isn't a small island. It's a fairly large area (196,000 sq. miles) and the caribou have virtually disappeared.
Did somebody tell the cajuns that caribou are endangered on Baffin Island?
Posted on 5/21/13 at 12:34 pm to CoastieGM
they migrated maybe?
Posted on 5/21/13 at 12:42 pm to DrTyger
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So you're saying Candians are fricking up the caribou for the rest of us?
These guys say no.
Posted on 5/21/13 at 12:55 pm to s14suspense
Posted on 5/21/13 at 1:02 pm to bayoudude
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Have the animals migrated elsewhere or just died?
Good question. My guess is subsistence rights aren't nearly as well monitored since the area becoming an inuit territory.
That's a helluva lot of caribou to vanish with no definitive answers though. Most migratory herds are better managed.
Posted on 5/21/13 at 1:21 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Has the sasquatch population increased there during the same period? We know sasquatches eat caribou.
Posted on 5/21/13 at 1:24 pm to RogerTheShrubber
quote:Yea, no margin for error there
Estimates from the early 1990s ranged from about 60,000 to 180,000
Posted on 5/21/13 at 1:35 pm to FelicianaTigerfan
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Estimates from the early 1990s ranged from about 60,000 to 180,000
Yea, no margin for error there
Population size can increase substantially if predators decrease. Porcupine herd in the NW arctic fluxuates pretty dramatically.
Any herd where the numbers drop to 1k-2k indicates a major problem though since the caribou are the keystone species in the lives of the Inuit there. It's basically their lifeline.
Posted on 5/21/13 at 1:51 pm to dante
I thought Bobo said that they ate bacon and ice cream and drank beer. 
Posted on 5/21/13 at 2:05 pm to DonChowder
Speaking of Bobo, has that show gone off the air. Every show was the exact same thing just a different location. Loved how they did their research in the middle of the night but all the sightings were during the day.
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