U.S. National Science Foundation-supported research shows that caribou will optimize their migration path based on their collective memories. Caribou are the most abundant large mammal species on land ...

One of President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders has reignited a debate over the future of Alaska’s vast wilderness ...

Two bull caribou ... during fall 2011 migration in Kobuk Valley National Park. (Photo by Kyle Joly/National Park Service) The Western Arctic Caribou Herd, once the biggest in Alaska, is faltering ...

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Tying migration to particular genes in caribou could have conservation implications, Musiani says. “With the expansion of human populations and with the increase in human infrastructure, these animals ...

I was especially amazed by the arctic landscapes of Canada and Alaska where we filmed the Caribou Migration. For thousands of kilometres there is no infrastructure, there are no roads, telephone ...

A study published in Global Change Biology shows that caribou will optimize their migration path based on ... 360,000 square kilometers in northwest Alaska for 11 years, from 2009 to 2020.