Projects

Alberta

The main objective of this project is to create a citizen-based camera program to monitor under-sampled habitats from ABMI’s core grid while simultaneously engaging citizens. The project will aim to produce scientifically sound data...

Alberta

On sites across the province, ABMI deploys sets of four cameras to monitor the occurrence of meso and macro fauna.

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...

Jasper National Park

We are monitoring phenology of alpine vegetation at two scales to be related to climate change, pollinators, and alpine birds to report on the condition and trend of alpine ecosystems in Jasper National Park. Daily timelapse images from...

City of Vancouver

Domestic cats (Felis catus) are abundant in urban areas and can have adverse impacts on urban wildlife and pose public health risks. A key component of understanding the impacts of cats, and developing humane, socially acceptable, and...

Southeast Fraser Valley

For the past five years, BC Parks has been working with partners in the Skagit Valley and other close protected areas to study wildlife utilizing an emerging tool: wildlife cameras.Through the Citizen Science Wildlife Monitoring project,...

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...

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...

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...

Box Lake, Nakusp BC

The main purpose of the habitat enhancement was to provide key basking and thermoregulation structures for the Western Painted Turtle population in Box Lake. This project involved installing anchored cedar logs, separated from the lake...

Gravelotte, Limpopo Province, South Africa

In this study, we used the camera trap survey to access the diversity, abundance, distribution, conservation status and activity rhythms of mammal species in three different property based on cattle management programme: the Holistic...