Some want the government to put caribou on the endangered species list. (Photo courtesy of the US Fish and Wildlife Service)
Santa’s reindeer are not doing
so well. Rebecca Williams reports
one group wants to get them on
the endangered species list:
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Santa’s reindeer are not doing
so well. Rebecca Williams reports
one group wants to get them on
the endangered species list:
Caribou, also known as reindeer, are declining all over the globe. The group International Fund for Animal Welfare says two subspecies of caribou are in especially bad shape.
Nathan Herschler is with the group. He says these caribou live in the Arctic. And climate change is making their lives miserable.
“Instead of soft snow that’s falling on the ground, we’re getting freezing rain. That’s encasing the land in ice and the caribou are literally starving to death.”
Herschler’s group wants the US government to put the caribou on the endangered species list. Even though the caribou live in Canada, he says the listing would help by banning the import of caribou or caribou meat into the US.
For The Environment Report, I’m Rebecca Williams.