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Beverly Caribou
Herd
The Beverly caribou have migrated across the northern Canadian
landscape for thousands of years, travelling up to 2,000 kilometres each
year. The range used by the Beverly herd extends from the boreal
forests of Saskatchewan and Manitoba, across the subarctic taiga of the
NWT, to the arctic tundra of west-central Nunavut.
The Beverly
caribou cross vast expanses of wilderness, including hundreds of wild
rivers and lakes, and one of the largest protected natural areas in North
America, the Thelon Wildlife Sanctuary.
The Beverly herd range overlaps with Bathurst caribou on the
west, Qamanirjuaq caribou on the east and Ahiak caribou to the north. Unlike
all other mainland barren-ground caribou herds, which spend part of their
annual cycle in coastal areas, Beverly caribou remain inland year-round as
they travel between their calving grounds northwest of Baker Lake to their
winter range in north central Canada.
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