As climate change drives deer north, other animals may lose out

As winters warm, white-tailed deer continue to move northward in North America. A recent study in Global Change Biology suggests that climate change is driving these habitat shifts – changes that could further threaten woodland caribou in Canada’s north.

The study used 300 remote cameras on the north side of the Alberta-Saskatchewan border, collecting nearly 80,000 images of white-tailed deer between 2017 and 2021 and using the images to track the density of white-tailed deer in the region over time to guess.