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Hundreds of caribou biologists, harvesters, co-managers, and community members from across the spectrum of caribou monitoring, research and stewardship are gathering in Yellowknife this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 20th North American Caribou Workshop (NACW) is being hosted by the N.W.T. government with caribou co-management partners, from Indigenous governments to resource and wildlife management boards.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cCaribou are ecologically and culturally very important across the circumpolar areas,\u201d said Brad Woodworth, co-chair of the conference organizing committee and an ecologist with the wildlife division of the N.W.T. Department of Environment and Climate Change.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s very important to be coming together to discuss and share and listen and learn from one another about issues facing caribou so we can hopefully have thriving and healthy populations now and in perpetuity.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The theme of this year\u2019s international conference is \u201cunited by caribou,\u201d to emphasize the unique relationships different people, organizations and communities have with caribou.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe conference itself has really been transforming from a science focus to [something] much more interdisciplinary, and incorporating many kinds of worldviews and ways of knowing about caribou,\u201d said Kathy Unger, co-chair of the organizing committee and a biologist with the wildlife division. \u201cSo that means there’s a lot more space for Indigenous knowledge-sharing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Topics range from managing habitat restoration and using genetics to assess populations to assessing the impact of major infrastructure projects and incorporating Indigenous knowledge systems within caribou research, monitoring and stewardship.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-739592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}