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.
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