Prioritizing Habitat Restoration and Protection
Research to identify and prioritize areas for habitat restoration and protection within woodland caribou ranges in Alberta.
Tracking Habitat Restoration Treatments
Tracking and reclaiming human footprint and linear disturbances as part of woodland caribou recovery in Alberta. The Wildlife Science Centre works closely with industry and…
Defining Habitat Recovery
Research tracking wolf movements using GPS collars, finding that wolves select linear features such as seismic lines to travel through the landscape. Informs understanding of…
Wildlife Crossing Structures
Building safe passages in critical wildlife corridors. Highway 3 runs through a critical wildlife corridor in southeastern BC connecting northern and southern populations of key…
Operationalizing Wildlife Coexistence in the Elk Valley
Providing financial support to help make properties bear-safe. Human-bear conflicts are common in the Elk Valley, often initiated by bears attracted to private property attractants.
Recreation Ecology
Pilot projects on human-wildlife coexistence, exploring how recreational activities interact with wildlife populations and habitat use.
Supporting Klinse-Za Caribou Recovery Efforts
The Klinse-Za caribou herd is a threatened population in northern BC. The West Moberly First Nations and Saulteau First Nations initiated and led a recovery…
Columbia Mountains Caribou Research Project
Founded in 1992 to measure the degree of overlap between the habitat needs of mountain caribou and forest extraction activities in the Columbia Mountains.
Predator Exclosures and Maternity Pens
The Caribou Monitoring Unit (CMU) tested predator exclosures in northeastern Alberta caribou ranges in 2014 and 2015 to address the issue of increased caribou predation.
Revelstoke Caribou Rearing in the Wild
A community-based partnership committed to the recovery of the Revelstoke caribou sub-population through rearing caribou in a controlled wild setting before release.
Regional Industry Caribou Collaboration (RICC)
A group of energy and forestry companies supporting caribou recovery efforts in the Cold Lake, East Side of the Athabasca Oil Sands, and West Side…
Supporting Splatsin in Caribou Recovery and Habitat Protection
Splatsin Nation’s long-term objective to recover endangered caribou within their traditional territory. WSC supported Splatsin through facilitating workshops and knowledge exchange on caribou recovery and…
