[A-List] Being Caribou

[Macdonald Stainsby <mstainsby@xxxxxx>]

Being Caribou
Reporter: Eve Savory | From The National Oct. 28, 2003

Every April in Canada's Yukon Territory, one of the world's last great animal
migrations occurs.

Driven by an instinct tens of thousands of years old, the Porcupine caribou
herd turns north and west, and begins a long and dangerous trek to its calving
grounds in Alaska.

Far to the south, politicians and oil executives are strategizing how to open
those calving grounds to oil and gas development.

The caribou cannot argue their case.

So two Canadians decided they would become the caribou's voice. They decided
they would follow the entire migration north and back. For five months,
through bitter winter gales and a mosquito-infested summer, they would be
caribou.an odyssey no one had ever even attempted.

Leanne Allison is a mountain climber and filmmaker.

rest:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/caribou/

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