Tag: Northwest Territories

The Northwest Territories Species at Risk Committee in Canada is recommending measures to enhance polar bear monitoring and conservation. The committee says it is reassessing the bears’ status based on...

Wildlife management agencies have developed a new strategy to halt the decline of barren-ground caribou populations across Canada’s Northwest Territories. Many barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) have seen large declines...

The Northwest Territories are beginning an aerial wolf removal operation as part of a plan to conserve struggling caribou populations. The five-year plan seeks to remove 80% of the wolves...

The largest populations of Arctic grizzly bears are sustained by a healthy balanced diet of food sources, according to research. “The idea would be that we could really show that...