72 record(s) found with the tag "wildlife management" (multi-year projects are grouped):
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Valuation of options for health management of wood bison with community participation
Principal Investigator: Hall, David
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4970. This research has three inter-related goals: 1) Acknowledge stakeholder voices and roles in addressing bison health; 2) Understand stakeholder values, attitudes, and preferences regarding the landscape and bison health management; and, 3) Assess the economic value of bison health management strategies. The research...


Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for Wildlife in the NWT
Principal Investigator: Jennings, Randi
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4906. The objective of the research is to identify and prioritize possible wildlife management actions to adequately adapt to climate change based on NWT experiences and regional priorities. The research team aim to gather information from around the NWT to adequately assess the public’s thoughts, opinions and recommendatio...


Transforming Arctic Conservation Through Social Innovation
Principal Investigator: Clark, Douglas A.
Licensed Year(s): 2019
Summary: This research will integrate and map polar bear knowledge systems, and translate findings into a community-based monitoring protocol that will track polar bear population responses to environmental change. Research questions include:1) Are polar bear science data, existing Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), and historical records from the fur trade,explorer’s personal accounts and government ...


Sahtú Region Caribou and Moose Study
Principal Investigator: Simmons, Deborah L
Licensed Year(s): 2016 2015 2014 2013
Summary: The main objective of this project is to support the wildlife management initiatives proposed by the Renewable Resource Councils (RRCs) in the Sahtú Region through the development of a robust research program that incorporates multiple sources of knowledge into a detailed understanding of caribou and moose populations. The objectives are to monitor caribou and moose health and understand populatio...


Landscape scale flooding in the Great Slave Lake Plain: Expansion of lakes, flooding of wetlands and implications for bison habitat and local land users (Traditional knowledge study component)
Principal Investigator: Wesche, Sonia D
Licensed Year(s): 2012
Summary: The over-arching objectives of the project are to draw together multiple sources of information to (1) examine the change in lake area in this eco region, (2) quantify the type and amount of habitat loss or modification; (3) investigate whether recent changes are part of a longer-term cycle and evaluate the causes of this change; (4) document local and traditional knowledge of physical and biologi...


Integrating Human Dimensions Research in Wood Buffalo National Park: Understanding Attitudes, Beliefs and Values toward Wood Bison and Bison Management
Principal Investigator: Will, Alice
Licensed Year(s): 2012
Summary: The objective of this research would be to understand public attitudes, beliefs, and values toward wood bison and their management. By addressing key issues and local and Aboriginal attitudes, beliefs and behavioural intention toward wood bison and the diseases that they carry, this applied research will aid in a better understanding of how these community perceptions can contribute to the managem...


Dall sheep, grizzly bear and wolf interactions in the Richardson Project: Collar retrieval and fence removal
Principal Investigator: Lambert Koizumi, Catherine
Licensed Year(s): 2010 2008 2006
Summary: The research objectives are to: 1. Retrieve the last stationary collars from this study in order to document home ranges, movements and habitat use of Dall sheep, grizzly bears and wolves & quantify the interactions between the three species; 2. Remove remains of fencing material (fences, posts) in the study area, which were installed in 2003-2004 in relation with a previous GRRB research projec...


Polar bear traditional knowledge for the Beaufort Sea
Principal Investigator: Maraj, Ramona
Licensed Year(s): 2011 2010
Summary: The researcher will gather local and traditional knowledge related to the population status of polar bears, and the influence that climate change has had on polar bears and their habitat in the Beaufort Sea. The information from interviews will be used to develop a description of acceptable management practices and management goals for polar bears. The researcher can then compare that information ...


A Case Study of Husky Lakes Beluga co-management using network analysis
Principal Investigator: Berkes, Fikret
Licensed Year(s): 2009
Summary: This project aims to understand how co-management helps the people of Tuktoyaktuk to deal with environment and resource problems. The researcher hopes to look at the role of the FJMC, and the exchange of knowledge between the Inuvialuit and government scientists. Through meetings with Burton Ayles and Sheila Nasogaluak as well as a joint FJMC/DFO meeting, the Husky Lakes beluga entrapment issu...


Conceptual and Mechanistic Models for the Development and Survival of the Trichostrongylid, Ostertagia gruehneri, in Barrenground Caribou, With Respect to Northern Climate Change
Principal Investigator: Hoar, Bryanne M
Licensed Year(s): 2009 2008 2007
Summary: The objective of this study in 2009 is to determine if parasites (Ostertagia gruehneri) can survive on the tundra over winter. This is the third year of a three year study. This work is to study the parasite Ostertagia gruehneri. This is the most common stomach worm in barrenground caribou. Adult worms live in the stomach of caribou and eggs are shed in the feces of the caribou. Once in the env...


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