Vanishing Caribou by Kathleen Orlinsky

Arctic caribou populations are in shocking decline. Over the last 20 years their numbers have dropped from five million animals to approximately two million, and this enormous loss threatens to put even more pressure on the fragile ecosystem of the Arctic, as well as the indigenous communities across Alaska and Canada who depend on caribou as a vital food source. The plight of the caribou reveals just how entangled the ecology of our planet is and their disappearance is a far greater story than that of a single species: it is a mirror of the broader issues relating to the climate crisis and biodiversity loss that is happening all over the world.