Caribou (IMAGE) University of Alaska Fairbanks Caption For most northern indigenous people, the roughly 3 million caribou in the world, such as this woodland caribou in northern British Columbia, are their most important terrestrial subsistence resource. Gary Kofinas, a resource policy and management scientist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and director of the Resilience and Adaptation Program at the Institute of Arctic Biology will present Credit David D. Gustine/Institute of Arctic Biology/University of Alaska Fairbanks Usage Restrictions One-time use for news stories related to this press release and proper credit must be used. License Licensed content Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.