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Different Ways of Knowing: the 2024 Northern Mountain Caribou Summit

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A Tahltan Guardian watches a caribou run away in the snow after being collared

We’re pleased to share the story of the Northern Mountain Caribou Summit in a newly released short film.

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Meet Dr. Tal Avgar, quantitative wildlife ecologist at UBC Okanagan

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Woodland caribou in open area with short pine trees in northern Alberta

Dr. Tal Avgar is a senior scientific advisor to the Wildlife Science Centre and a quantitative wildlife ecologist with the Irving K. Barber Faculty of...

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Biodiversity Pathways 2023-24 Annual Report

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We’re delighted to share our first ever annual report for Biodiversity Pathways. Highlights from the past year are organized by program area: mammal research and...

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Press release: A warming climate helps deer invade the boreal forest

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A white-tailed deer up to its neck in a snow drift

New research shows that the expansion of white-tailed deer into the northern boreal forest is linked to less severe winters

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Press release: Effectiveness of recovery actions for southern mountain caribou

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Three adult and three young caribou

Southern mountain caribou abundance declined by 51% between 1991-2023, but without recovery actions, the decline would have been even greater. 

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Senior Caribou Ecologist Melanie Dickie awarded Georgina Mace Prize

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Point cloud of a forest derived from lidar

The award celebrates the best article in the journal Ecological Solutions and Evidence by an early career researcher.

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Changes to caribou home ranges during the “anthropause”

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Colombia Mountains in winter

New research on caribou home range size and movement during a period of reduced human activity

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Grizzly bear coexistence in the Elk Valley: Challenges & opportunities

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Infographic of grizzly bear research findings

A recent study by Clayton Lamb and colleagues provides an eye-opening look into the human–grizzly bear dynamic in British Columbia's Elk Valley.

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Applying remote sensing techniques to wide-scale vegetation inventories

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THE APPLIED ECOLOGIST—July 2023

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