Predator-Prey and Survial of Mountain Caribou

Mountain caribou, are a sub-group in Southern Interior British Columbia wet belt, to the Woodland caribou, Rangifer tarandus, and are considered ‘endangered’ in BC (Wittmer 2004). All sub-populations of caribou globally share the name of Rangifer tarandus. Northern Idaho marks the southern-most boundary of Mountain caribou range (Wittmer 2004). Province wide, caribou have declined from around 40,000 individuals, to around 15,000 in the last century. Many populations of Mountain caribou in BC are at risk of extirpation, such as the Columbia South herd which overlaps Glacier and Mount Revelstoke National parks, whose numbers went from 120 animals in 1994 to 4 animals in 2016 (Serrouya et al. 2016).