Alarm grows over wastage of caribou, deaths of pregnant cows – Cabin Radio

March 27, 2025

“I found six at a fresh site, and then I found four at another relatively recent site, because it wasn’t there last Saturday.”

Stephen Fochuk is describing caribou fetuses.

Fochuk says he is a regular visitor to the winter road between Yellowknife and the NWT’s diamond mines each winter. He photographs the trucks hauling loads up to the mines and, when the opportunity arises, he takes photos of the wildlife, too.

He says those trips mean he has a sense of the caribou hunting taking place along the road and what is being left behind.

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