A study published in Global Change Biology shows that caribou will optimize their migration path based on their collective memories. Caribou are the largest species on land in the Arctic. They are not ...

The study shows caribou herds changed their migratory duration, distance or elevation over 35 years of radio tag tracking. Decades of data following the migratory patterns of endangered caribou show ...

Caribou and moose hunting in parts of Northwest Alaska will be closed to nonlocal hunters in August and September of 2022 and 2023 to support local subsistence hunters and protect the declining ...

Caribou move along barren ground in northern Canada. The Bathurst caribou population has declined from 400,000 to less than 4,000 over the last 30 years, according to new surveys by the government of ...

To the editor: I have read and heard all the talk of the Porcupine Caribou herd that migrates to the North Slope. Many individuals who have had very little experience of Alaska living or haven’t even ...

A group of Western Arctic Herd caribou pause in front of mountains in Kobuk Valley National Park during fall migration in 2016. The Western Arctic herd, one of the largest in the world, has been in ...

Caribou cross through Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve in their 2012 spring migration. The Western Arctic Caribou Herd, long one of the largest in North America, has declined ...

Each spring and fall, groups of caribou (Rangifer tarandus) undertake marathon migrations of up to 400 kilometers, the longest of any land animal. “It’s a phenomenal behavior,” says University of ...