Tourism & Wildlife

Grizzlies, caribou, and aurora tourism across the new border

Caribou, Bears, and People Who Want to See Them

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The North has wildlife that exists almost nowhere else. Caribou herds numbering in the hundreds of thousands. Grizzlies. Wolves. Moose. Musk oxen.

People want to see this. They'll pay to see this.

But tourism has costs.

The Tourism Landscape:

Yukon:

  • ~500,000 visitors/year (pre-pandemic)
  • Northern lights, Klondike heritage, wilderness
  • Cruise ships to Skagway bring day-trippers
  • Tourism: Significant economic sector

Alaska:

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