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Increasing food base for preditors to help woodland caribou

Tblak82 Posts: 1 Sightings: 0

Re: Increasing food base for preditors to help woodland caribou on September 02, 2010 Reply / Edit How about introducing white tail deer and mule deer to Newfoundland to help ease the presure of predation and hunting on the woodland caribou heards of Newfoundland!

CapeGannet Posts: 5 Sightings: 75

Re: Increasing food base for preditors to help woodland caribou on October 17, 2011 Reply / Edit This sounds like a great idea, however, the problem that comes with this is that the deer carry a brainworm parasite known as Elaphostrongylus rangiferi that can kill mass numbers of caribou if it gets into a population.  The brainworm is currently present in most of our caribou herds and is a cause for great concern as they have helped severely depleat caribou numbers in the past.  THe Avalon herd is currently experiencing an infestation of this parasitic nematode.

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