Narwhals are a marine whale and belong to the cetacean family, which include all species of whale, dolphin and porpoise. Shipping and underwater noise Narwhals have been known to move away from their calving and feeding areas when large ships move in.

Meet the caribou guardians. North American Caribou search for food on their winter migration to the open tundra.

Southern mountain caribou are also endangered in other parts of B.C. The supporters, a caribou and narwhal, represent sustenance and natural resources of the land and sea. The caribou normally cross the Porcupine River in April or early May when it’s still frozen.

... Narwhals are a strange, incredible species of whale, with long tusks extending up to three metres from their heads. Map: Carol Linnitt / The Narwhal Ecojustice lawyer Sean Nixon said the U.S. action should increase pressure on the federal and B.C. “Hundreds of pods of narwhal came to town,” he says, still marveling over that exciting three-day stretch. Narwhals live in … In males, the more prominent tooth grows into a swordlike, spiral tusk up to 10 feet long.The ivory tusk tooth grows right through the narwhal's upper lip.

Despite the appearance, these tusks aren’t actually used for fighting.

Four B.C. “I was nine-years-old when I saw my first narwhal,” Max Kalluk, now 33, tells Brandon Laforest, WWF-Canada’s Arctic species specialist. The conservation of narwhal in Canada is dependent on Inuit involvement and contributions as they are the only people who live in the range of narwhal and hold an intense amount of knowledge on their behaviour and life history.

southern mountain caribou herds have been declared 'extirpated' in the last decade, due chiefly to industrial disturbance of their habitat.

Narwhal Tusks . "They tried to strip us of our culture."

These legendary animals have two teeth.

Unlike other whales, narwhals do not migrate out of the frigid Arctic oceans. We here to set the record straight on these fascinating creatures.

The Heiltsuk people have lived on B.C.’s central coast for more than 14,000 years — long before this place was called British Columbia. That town was Arctic Bay, an Inuit hamlet in the northwest corner of […]

Beluga whales, bowhead whales, narwhals, barren-ground caribou, polar bears and walruses are among the many Arctic wildlife to benefit from high-quality research and stewardship through the WWF-Canada Arctic Species Conservation Fund.

They can stay underwater for up to 25 minutes before coming up for air.

I’m WWF-Canada’s senior specialist on Arctic species and ecosystems, leading our work on beluga whales, bowhead whales, barren-ground caribou, narwhal, polar bears and Atlantic walrus. The slow swimming whales rely on sea ice as a place to hide from predators like killer whales.

Calving had happened in the boreal forest south of Old Crow.