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Alberta Oil Sands Region

To better understand the direct impact of various oil sands industry activities on mammals and birds, the ABMI designed a monitoring program focussed on the in-situ region of the Oil Sands Region (OSR). Broadly speaking, the design...

Cold Lake, East Side Athabasca, West Side Athabasca, Saskatchewan

The Ecosystem Monitoring Camera Program’s goals are two-fold. The first goal will be to monitor multi-species responses to caribou management actions over time using a remote camera program. The program specifically monitors changes in...

In summer 2020, we deployed 38 camera traps in Joffre Lakes Provincial Park and Garibaldi Provincial Park to survey wildlife responses to varying levels of human use of the protected areas during COVID-19 shutdowns. We are specifically...

The Bighorn Project seeks to understand how anthropogenic footprint and human activity affects mammal communities in this amazing wilderness in Alberta’s Rocky Mountains. This multi-use landscape houses a nearly intact large mammal...

Christina Lake

The Christina Lake Project seeks to understand how oil sands development, together with forest harvesting and roading, affect mammal communities in this highly developed corner of Alberta’s boreal forest. This unique landscape is a...

Sechelt Peninsula

Conservation and management of Roosevelt Elk (Cervus canadensis roosevelti) requires accurate and precise population estimates. Current regional inventory methods involve aerial inventory surveys with corrections for sightability based on...

Two study areas: 1) southwest of Prince George & 2) northwest of Kamloops

Two arrays of 50 wildlife cameras were deployed southwest of Prince George and northwest of Kamloops to identify the impacts of forest harvesting on distributions of moose and their predators. Predator distributions will be used to...

Flathead valley, BC

We are collecting photos of grizzly bears so we can estimate body condition using a computer-based measurement method of bear size described by Shirane et al (2020; https://peerj.com/articles/9982/). The placement of cameras is critical...

WMU 4-23

20 cameras monitoring recreation effects of motorized and non-motorized recreation near Fernie. Paired cameras on adjacent wildlife trails.

Bella Coola Valley / Nuxalk Territory

The Bella Coola Valley / Nuxalk Territory was recently provided with an independently conducted Bear Hazard Assessment (BHA) and new Human Bear Conflict Management Plan (HBCMP) following decades of continued human-bear conflict incidence...

West Kootenays

Wildlife cameras have been deployed throughout two regions burned by wildfire, one in 2018 and one in 2021, with cameras within unburned control sites, and burned sites at various burn severities. Many cameras are also up in two unburned...

Huascaran National Park

Evaluate the response of the native mammal fauna during the lockdown in Huascaran National Park