Publications

A summary of harvest and monitoring activities for the Bathurst, Bluenose-East, and Bevery/Ahiak caribou herds in 2019/2020.

The Bathurst Caribou Advisory Committee's (BCAC) held its 2nd Annual Review on Bathurst Caribou in January 2023. The Annual Review on Bathurst Caribou is a time for all communities, organizations, and governments across the Bathurst range to come together to review and discuss new information about the Bathurst herd and activities within the herd’s range. A key outcome of the Annual Review is the determination of the herd’s status and recommended management responses for the coming year. 

A summary of harvest and monitoring activities for the Bathurst, Bluenose-East, and Bevery/Ahiak caribou herds in 2018/2019.

Co-management Boards and the federal and territorial governments in the Mackenzie Valley typically host an annual workshop on the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act (MVRMA) for community representatives, Indigenous governments, and organizations as a key engagement activity to support an effective co-management system.

A technical working group was established to compile information and determine the current abundance, trend, and distribution of wolverine on the ranges of the Bathurst and Bluenose East caribou herds. The information available for the Bathurst and Bluenose East caribou ranges is too fragmented to determine whether wolverine have become a more important predator of barren-ground caribou during the recent caribou and wolf declines, given that wolverine are long-lived and opportunistic in their behavior.