Tlicho elders, hunters return from 2nd year of on-the-land Bathurst caribou monitoring – CBC

Group of hunters, elders, researchers spent six weeks near Contwoyto Lake monitoring Bathurst herd

Aug 24, 2017

Tlicho hunters and elders have returned from six weeks of observing caribou at Contwoyto Lake, Nunavut, in the second year of a program designed to use traditional knowledge to monitor the diminishing barrenland population.

The project — a collaboration between the Tlicho Government, Government of the Northwest Territories, Wek’eezhi Renewable Resource Board, and Dominion Diamond Corporation — had teams camp and travel by foot and on boat, following caribou herds and documenting their observations.

This year, the group spotted about 8,500 caribou over six weeks, said Petter Jacobsen, the Tlicho Government’s traditional knowledge researcher.

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