CARIBOU

GENERAL INFO

• Eats mushrooms in winter
• Eats grass and plants in summer
• Travels up to 600 miles
• Can eat up to 12 lbs of food

MORE GENERAL INFO

• Live in North America
• Mostly eat lichens from trees
• Known to eat their antlers for calcium
• Uses large hooves for digging and crossing harsh lands
• Predators are wolves,bear,coyotes, cougars, and lynx

OTHER THREATS

• People
• Habitat distruction
• Hunting
• White tailed dear-parasite

SURVIVAL

• Caribou are use to colder climates
• They were built with thick furs to bear the cold winters.
• Scientist have already reported low number of caribou because of the current conditions
• Caribou are dying off before they can change their DNA makeup for survival .

HABITAT

• Wild fires increase
• Lichens decrease
• Food changes climate but caribou dont

FOOD

• Predators food line decrease
• Caribou's food moves places
• Game will change for humans

CARIBOU HOME

• Wild fires will increase due to increased heat
• Grasslands will grow wild because caribou are not the numbers they use to be
• Predators will start losing food supply

ACTIONS

• Stop deforestation in habitat
• List them endangered and stop hunting
• Protect land
• Be more enviromentally conscious

SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST

• Unfortunately if the caribou do not adapt this may cause extinction of the species
• This will also cause extinction of predators due to loss of food

WHY DO WE CARE

• This is just the start of the whole world in change
• One spieces goes extinct and it leads to another
• In most ways we are all connected
• This is just the tip of the ice burg for the change in our world