A troubling decline in the caribou herds of the Arctic

Environment 360: In late July, a group of Inuit hunters set off by boat along the west coast of Banks Island to search for Peary caribou, which inhabit the Arctic archipelago of Canada. Roger Kuptana, a 62-year-old Inuit who had grown up on the island, didn't give his fellow hunters much chance of success in their hunt for the animals, the smallest caribou sub-species in North America. "I think it's a waste of gas," Kuptana told me when I visited his modest home in Sachs Harbour, a traditional ......

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