Reindeer & Caribou Populations Plunge


	Reindeer & Caribou Populations Plunge

JICWyllie

6-18-2009 3:44 AM

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1-climate change, 1-ecocide, 1-extinction, 1-mining, 2-consequences, 2-increase, 2-record, 3-reported, 3-research, 4-intl

JICWyllie says:

Projects, such as the Canadian Tar Sands heavy oil extraction, are like a knife in the heart of the True North. But is capitalism and greed which plunges the knife in. The result is ecocide.

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Reindeer and caribou numbers worldwide have plunged nearly 60
percent in the last three decades due to <SPAN id="lw_1244830799_0" class="yshortcuts">climate change</SPAN> and habitat
disturbance caused by humans, a new study finds.
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What's causing the decline, according to the study:
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090612/sc_livescience/reindeercariboupopulationsplunge"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Earlier spring green-ups  now occur before <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/livescience/sc_livescience/storytext/reindeercariboupopulationsplunge/32340459/SIG=129qu4imv/*http://www.livescience.com/animals/top10_animal_migration_journeys.html"><SPAN id="lw_1244830799_6" class="yshortcuts">migrating herds</SPAN></A> arrive north. This deprives mothers and calves of quality feeding. </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090612/sc_livescience/reindeercariboupopulationsplunge"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Warmer summers  cause more intense insect activity, harassing animals and affecting their feeding. </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090612/sc_livescience/reindeercariboupopulationsplunge"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">The
	impact of more <SPAN id="lw_1244830799_7" class="yshortcuts">freezing rain</SPAN>, in place of snow, has negatively impacted
	lichens that animals feed on during the colder months.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090612/sc_livescience/reindeercariboupopulationsplunge"><P>
Caribou are vulnerable to a number of threats, including
deforestation, <SPAN id="lw_1244830799_10" class="yshortcuts">natural resource extraction</SPAN> and accompanying road
networks, and <SPAN id="lw_1244830799_11" class="yshortcuts">climate change</SPAN>, Ray and a colleague said last year. In
<SPAN id="lw_1244830799_12" class="yshortcuts">North America</SPAN>, caribou have lost about one-third of their southern
range, they said.
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