This video features the threatened Woodland Caribou, not the Southern Mountain Caribou, as the latter is a separate subgroup. Being a very elusive animal, good images and videos of the critically endangered Southern Mountain population are extremely rare and difficult to find.
Symbolizes: Lifeforce
These caribou also protect ancient trees known to be around 1000 years old, because of the caribou's protected status, logging corporations cannot enter their habitat.
The world's only temperate inland rainforests found in British Columbia and in Northwestern US states are their habitat.
They are also known as “America’s Gray Ghosts”.
They survive on arboreal lichens in Winter.
Mountain Caribou survived the Pleistocene Ice Age.
Logging, roads, predators, and recreational activities which cause stress and habitat fragmentation are their biggest threats.
They are the most Southern caribou in the world and were once found in ID and WA states.
They have huge feet to access tree lichens and to stay afloat in deep snow.
Approximately 1200 individuals exist today.
Their hollow fur insulates them during mountain winters.
To learn more: Please watch “Last Stand” on the Rainforest Caribou.