The Western Arctic Caribou Herd, once the biggest in Alaska, is faltering, having fallen from a high of 490,000 animals in 2003 to only 152,000 as of 2023. But to the east, the Porcupine Caribou ...

One of the biggest caribou herds in North America has taken a nosedive, and climate change is a likely culprit in the population decline. Alaska’s Western Arctic Caribou Herd population is lower ...

Caribou, or tutu in Inupiat, traverse the snowy heart of Alaska’s Brooks Range.Each spring, caribou all across the North American Arctic begin extraordinary migrations toward their calving grounds.

The Trump administration announced a plan on June 17 to open nearly 82% of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to oil and ...

A predator-control program in Western Alaska, recently ruled unconstitutional, is needed to boost the ailing Mulchatna caribou herd, state game managers say.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The state of Alaska is once again asking the Board of Game to allow wildlife managers to shoot bears from helicopters in a rural part of Southwest ...

Grizzly bears in Alaska, called brown bears, that live around the town of Bethel, population 6,325, should have a good life as they don’t interact with many people. But their future is in peril.

Alaska needs to revamp its outdated Intensive Management Law, passed in 1994 to ensure that certain populations of moose, caribou and deer are sufficient to provide food for Alaskans.

Alaska's caribou are an important source of food and cultural identity for Alaskans, ... Four of them will chat in a range and we estimated up to 4740 800 caribou a year were used for subsistence.