Check out our introductory video created by Number Five Productions here.
ALCS Video: Caribou, Community, Consultation.
Thank You to Our Supporters!
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Season’s Greetings from the Arrow Lakes Caribou Society!
Santa and his elf visited the Central Selkirk Caribou Maternity Pen to look for new sleigh-pulling recruits! There's no caribou in the pen yet, but Santa thinks it will be a great place for his reindeer to hang out in the off-season. If you would like to make a donation to the maternity pen (a …
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Maternity Pen Construction
Since 2019, ALCS has received over $70,000 in in-kind work and materials from local businesses and stakeholders for maternity pen planning and construction. Following conditional government support for pen construction and operation in 2020/2021 from the South Area Caribou Team, pen construction ramped up in October. ALCS received $73,928 from the B.C. Provincial Government's Forest …
CCBF: Mountain Caribou Camera Project
The Caribou Conservation Breeding Foundation has launched a fundraising campaign to set up a live stream video of wild caribou at a supplemental feeding station in east central British Columbia. The live stream will be available worldwide, inspiring viewers to engage in caribou conservation and species at risk recovery. For more information and to donate …
Arrow Lakes Caribou Society AGM
Arrow Lakes Caribou Society will be having an Annual General Meeting on November 5, 2020. To attend the meeting either in person or via the Zoom conference call, please RSVP to al.caribou.society@gmail.com before Nov 1, 2020.
Caribou Conservation Breeding Foundation
The Caribou Conservation Breeding Foundation (CCBF) is a newly established non-for-profit organization dedicated to caribou recovery through the development of conservation breeding programs. Check out the CCBF website for more information and follow them on Facebook and Instagram to stay in the loop! The ALCS looks forward to working closely with the CCBF as well …
Nakusp Maternity Pen Project
Organization Background Arrow Lakes Caribou Society (ALCS) envisions transparent, cooperative, collaborative, and evidence-based land use planning for caribou recovery that is sensitive to the values and needs of affected communities.ALCS is a local organization focused on the recovery of the Central Selkirk subpopulation of Woodland Caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou).ALCS has facilitated communication between local user …
Go Fund Me- Maternity Pen
https://www.gofundme.com/f/s3w67-arrow-lakes-caribou-society-maternity-pen-project As part of the maternity pen fundraising effort we started a GoFundMe campaign! Grant funding - if successful - won't be available until March 2020 so we are looking at other funding sources in order to purchase materials to build the pen this fall/December. The GoFundMe campaign might help to get started anyway. If …
Building International Partnerships
The ALCS has been working to develop international partners to enhance our ability to adequately address the interim need to halt the decline of the Central Selkirk mountain caribou. We have began collaborating with the International Caribou Federation (ICF), an American non-profit based in Montana seeking to restore caribou in their natural ranges. For more …
Update from the ALCS
Hello Community Partners – The Arrow Lakes Caribou Society has continued to work as an advocate for community involvement in decision-making at all levels of caribou recovery and management for the Central Selkirks’ Nakusp/Duncan herd. Over the past few months we have been building a relationship with the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations …
