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Management Plan 2013-2022

Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou Management Plan 2013-2022

This plan was the fourth in BQCMB history. It guided the activities of the Board until 2022.

View the Beverly and Qamaniruaq Caribou Management Plan 2013-2022:

  • Overview (brochure, 859 KB)
  • Summary (18 pp., 3.1 MB)
  • Detailed Plan (102 pp., 5.8 MB) – with 10 Appendices including (2) Abbreviations and Definitions, (4) Maps of the Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou Ranges, (9) Communication Audiences and Tactics, and (10) Conservation Education Resources.
Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou Management Plan 2013-2022 | Overview
Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou Management Plan 2013-2022 | Summary
Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou Management Plan 2013-2022 | Detailed

Caribou News in Brief

Caribou News in Brief is a periodic publication of the Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou Management Board (BQCMB). This newsletter keeps people in touch with the BQCMB and with issues affecting caribou. Please enjoy reading our latest newsletter or view the archive of past newsletter below.

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Maps of the Caribou Ranges

Below are detailed maps included in the Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou Management Plan. Full descriptive titles are provided for each map in the Detailed Management Plan (102 pp., 5.8 MB).

Maps in Main Document

Apendix 4 Maps

Annual Caribou Ranges

Seasonal Caribou Ranges

Land Use on the Caribou Ranges

Ecozones and Ecoregions of the Caribou Ranges

Videos

Below are the BQCMB’s most recent videos.

Janet Ishalook and her son Joabie cutting up caribou

BQCMB – We Are The Caribou Video – 2023

In late 2023, caribou people from the Kivalliq region of Nunavut and northern Manitoba travelled to Rankin Inlet, NU and Thompson, MB to talk about the importance of caribou for their cultural and spiritual identities. These Inuit and Dene people spoke passionately about the need to ensure future generations can continue to have a lifestyle that includes caribou. This video shares some of their words.

Janet Ishalook and her son Joabie cutting up caribou

BQCMB – Draft Nunavut Land Use Plan Video – 2023

The Draft Nunavut Land Use Plan (NLUP), when completed, will be the largest land use plan in the world. In late 2022, the BQCMB travelled to Rankin Inlet, NU and Thompson, MB to participate in the final hearings for the NLUP. We were struck by the passionate arguments of hearing participants ranging from individuals, community representatives, and other organizations – all emphasizing the need for full protection of caribou and key caribou habitat in the plan. We created a video summarizing some of these presentations, which will serve two purposes: form part of the BQCMB’s submission to the final DNLUP, and help educate the public about the need for the plan to ensure development does not have a higher value than caribou in the plan.

Janet Ishalook and her son Joabie cutting up caribou

Who is the BQCMB Video? 2022

The BQCMB was created in 1982 to manage the Beverly and Qamanirjuaq barren-ground caribou herds. The past 40 years have been built upon a shared goal of conserving these herds for the benefit of Indigenous communities across the range. But with both herds in decline, the work of the BQCMB is needed more than ever.

Reports and Documents

Below are the BQCMB’s most significant reports and other documents.

Janet Ishalook and her son Joabie cutting up caribou

Arctic Conservation Series: Healthy caribou herds mean healthy Northerners

The Arctic Conservation Series is published in partnership with the World Wildlife Fund.

Article written by – Monte Hummel, President Emeritus WWF-Canada, and Earl Evans, Chair of the Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou Management Board – published in Northern Public Affairs – July, 2017.

BQCMB Caribou Workshop 2010

Drummers Matthew Mercredi of Fond du Lac, Saskatchewan (left) and David Joseyounen of Hatchet Lake

From February 23 to 25, 2010 the BQCMB hosted a Caribou Workshop in Saskatoon, SK . The Workshop was held to find ways to help the ailing Beverly caribou herd to rebuild, and to try to stop the Qamanirjuaq population from going through a major decline as well. More than 75 elders, hunters and others from Saskatchewan, NWT, Manitoba, Nunavut, Alberta, Yukon, British Columbia and Ontario came to the Caribou Workshop because of their concern for caribou. They wanted to help make sure that the herds are strong and healthy in the future. They took the first step toward achieving that by sharing their valuable knowledge about caribou during this workshop.

Below are three documents outlining the events and recommendations of that Workshop:

Position Papers

Caribou Calve

In September 2004, the BQCMB released a position paper titled “Protecting Calving Grounds, Post-Calving Areas and Other Important Habitats for Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou” that makes five key recommendations to governments and relevant planning and regulatory agencies.

Among these recommendations is long-term legislated protection for the herds’ traditional calving grounds and post-calving areas that prohibits activities causing serious or irreversible negative effects to caribou or their habitat.

The complete Position Paper (2004) is available in English only:

In 2005 Plain Language Summaries of the original Position Paper were created; available in English, Inuktitut and Dene:

BQCMB Backgrounder

Caribou Eating

The BQCMB’s position on protecting barren-­ground caribou calving grounds and post-­calving areas.

20th Anniversary Report

Caribou Eating

The 20th Anniversary Report covering information from 1982 – 2002.

Economic Valuation and Socio-Cultural Perspectives of the Estimated Harvest of the Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Caribou Herds

Caribou Eating

Report: Prepared by InterGroup Consultants, Winnipeg. May 2008/ revised in 2013.

A Review of Fire Management on Forested Range of the Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Herd of Caribou

Fire Management

Technical Report 1 [1994]

Fire Management Recommendations for Forested Range of the Beverly and Qamanirjuaq Herds of Caribou.

Fire Management

Management Report 1 [1994]