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For years there has been concern about the rapidly declining caribou herds across Canada. According to World Wildlife Fund-Canada, the Bathurst herd in the Northwest Territories, for example, has dropped from 472,000 individuals in 1987 to 35,000 in 2012, and the Baffin Island herd is down 95 per cent, to only 5,000 individuals.

All-terrain vehicles were used to illegally round up wood bison and musk oxen that were killed in hunts showcased on the show "Canada in the Rough."

A Toronto company has partnered with a Chinese fund to advance an iron project in Canada's eastern Arctic territory.

To date, according to Yukon Premier Darrell Pasloski, Canada, the Yukon and British Columbia have put nearly $1.5 billion into the Alaska Highway, while the United States has provided about $460 million.

Military station Alert, the farthest-north spot on Earth that is continuously occupied by people, was the site of a study tracking sleep and activity patterns in the polar night.

Incursions by egg-seeking bears into seabird colonies in the Hudson Bay region have increased sevenfold since the 1980s, scientists say.