B.C.'s Selkirk Mountains' Gray Ghost caribou herd 'functionally extinct'

The Gray Ghost caribou herd in the southern Selkirk Mountains is “functionally extinct,” despite a decade worth of interventions by governments to save them.
Only three females are left of a population that had 50 members as recently as 2009, said Canadian wildlife biologist Mark Hebblewhite, a professor at the University of Montana.
“The only thing we can do at this point is let them die off or put them in a zoo and breed them,” he said. “Herds like this are winkin