Caribou and the North

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Caribou and the North

A Shared Future

By Monte Hummel and Justina C. Ray

978-1-55002-839-3
August 2008
288pp, Hardback
$50.00 CAD

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… book of great visual beauty packed with information about a threatened ecosystem and its "star", the giant migrating caribou herds.

Animal Literature

"If the caribou die, then we die." These few words speak eloquently to the significanceof caribou for northern peoples. They were spoken not by a wise old chief, but by a 13-year-old Dene youth in 2007 during a hearing regarding uranium exploration on the caribou wintering grounds.

Right now there is urgent, widespread concern about the future of the most centralof species: caribou. Caribou and the North brings both the facts and the feelingsof the current situation to a North American readership. The writers look at why we need to conserve the caribou, the threats that have faced caribou in the past, present, and future, and the actions that we can take. Also included is an appendixwith up-to-date information on the range, movements, habitats, numbers, population trends, and key threats to caribou in North America.