{"id":818412,"date":"2026-07-22T10:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/818412\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T10:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:43:14","slug":"quebecs-captive-caribou-population-grows-after-16-fawns-are-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/818412\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec&#8217;s captive caribou population grows after 16 fawns are born"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>The Quebec government says the number of caribou in captivity has grown since May following the birth of more than a dozen new fawns.<\/p>\n<p>Officials from the Quebec environment ministry are overseeing three herds of caribou in captivity, as part of efforts to help protect the species.<\/p>\n<p>Woodland caribou are threatened in Canada, mainly due to human activity.<\/p>\n<p>In Quebec, the government says two of the three captive herds welcomed 16 new fawns this season, bringing the total number of caribou in captivity to 75.<\/p>\n<p>The Val-d&#8217;Or herd, which is located about 500 kilometres northwest of Montreal and is the smallest herd at only seven caribou, did not grow this year.<\/p>\n<p>Three fawns born in Charlevoix did not survive and two pregnant caribou in Gasp\u00e9sie also died. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-818412","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\/818412","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=818412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}