Trevor Barker, Wildlife Technician
My Job
Collaring caribou
We hire a capture company to do the caribou capture. They net-gun the animals, so there aren't any drugs used.
They get the animal out into an opening, throw a net over it and subdue it. We then go and take the collar off the animal and put a new one on.
Typically, caribou herds range from forty to one hundred animals. We try to collar least ten percent of a herd.