{"id":33292,"date":"2026-05-19T08:43:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/?p=33292"},"modified":"2026-05-22T09:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T13:56:11","slug":"mining-caribou-and-impact-assessmentin-unceded-kaska-dena-territory-yukon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/2026\/mining-caribou-and-impact-assessmentin-unceded-kaska-dena-territory-yukon\/","title":{"rendered":"Mining, Caribou, and Impact Assessment\nin Unceded Kaska Dena Territory, Yukon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-7xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-7xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 60%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Mining, Caribou, and Impact Assessment\nin Unceded Kaska Dena Territory, Yukon\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n                    <div class=\"cu-textmedia-bgimg flex-1 rounded-xl bg-no-repeat bg-cover \" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2026\/05\/boreal-caribou-banner-768x336.jpg); background-position: 68% 57%; transform: scale(1);\"><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Emilie Cameron, Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies &amp; Fiona Doyle, MA, Institute of Political Economy, released a report today about how mining projects are being assessed and approved in unceded Kaska Dena territory, Yukon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study found that the Yukon Government approved every project for which it issued a decision document, even in cases where impacts to threatened caribou herds were predicted to be severe or \u201cunmitigable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These two maps illustrate a key finding of the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"239\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2026\/05\/1-320x239.jpg\" alt=\"habitat of land\n\n\" class=\"wp-image-33293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2026\/05\/1-320x239.jpg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2026\/05\/1-512x382.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2026\/05\/1.jpg 656w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The first map was produced by Yukon\u2019s impact assessment board. It was used to argue that the proposed mineral exploration site, shown here in red, would have almost no impact on available caribou habitat, shown in brown cross-hatch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-thumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"268\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2026\/05\/2-320x268.jpg\" alt=\"habitat of land\" class=\"wp-image-33294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2026\/05\/2-320x268.jpg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/108\/2026\/05\/2.jpg 393w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The second map, produced by Fiona Doyle (co-author of the report), drawing on Yukon\u2019s own data, shows the actual available habitat at the time, and the cumulative impact of multiple projects across the herd\u2019s range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project was approved, along with every other project we studied. Full report at <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/yukon-mining-report-may-2026\/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExRmxCemtyc0dJZDdnUXlaVXNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR6Vm2QBQqsVl5G6YfTE_P1TrvaUQtbalYkcwXl8dlOvMOaysUWtLilVnQrMcQ_aem_LC9vymvscjOJIZyAtpIXFg\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/yukon-mining-report-may-2026\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Emilie Cameron, Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies &amp; Fiona Doyle, MA, Institute of Political Economy, released a report today about how mining projects are being assessed and approved in unceded Kaska Dena territory, Yukon. The study found that the Yukon Government approved every project for which it issued a decision document, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":330,"featured_media":33295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/330"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33292"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33299,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33292\/revisions\/33299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}