Projects

Wildlife-Park Visitor Interaction in South BC Coast Parks

Compiled here is a list of current and past projects with wildlife cameras in western Canada undertaken by our membership. You can click on any of the projects to learn more about them, or explore the map. You can also access our searchable database here,  where you can sort or search for projects by target species, affiliation, region, etc.

The Moraine Mesocarnivore Project

The Moraine Mesocarnivore Project

The Beaver Hills Biosphere

The Moraine Mesocarnivore Project investigated the degree to which the network of protected areas, private woodlots, and developed land within the mixed-use landscape of central Alberta's heartland maintains mammalian diversity, and...

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The Sea-to-Sky Mammal Monitoring Project

The Sea-to-Sky Mammal Monitoring Project

Sea-to-Sky Country

Cameras have been deployed across parts of the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District (Squamish, Pemberton, Whistler) at 5 local sites to understand the the impact of recreation on animal populations through investigating how humans and...

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The Willmore Biodiversity Research Project

The Willmore Biodiversity Research Project

Willmore Wilderness

The Willmore Biodiversity Research Project (2009-2012) deployed 60 cameras across a fully protected Mountain landscape to understand the effects of topography and natural mountain heterogeneity on mammal species ranging from flying...

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Timelapse Image Analyzer for Camera Traps

Timelapse Image Analyzer for Camera Traps

International

Visually analyzing and tagging data from thousands of images and videos is a painful process. The Timelapse Image Analyser for Camera Traps project develops freely-available software that helps ecologists efficiently do the above. ...

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Townsend's Big-eared Bat Maternity Colony Relocation Monitoring

Townsend's Big-eared Bat Maternity Colony Relocation Monitoring

Qualicum Beach and Qualicum National Wildlife Area

Wildlife cameras are being used to monitor bat use at an old bat house due to be deconstructed in 2020, and at a new bat condo recently constructed, as a potential new abode for the colony.

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UBC Farm Biodiversity Monitoring Project

UBC Farm Biodiversity Monitoring Project

University of British Columbia

Eight cameras have been setup in the production area and forested portion of the UBC Farm to monitor mammal abundance, diversity, and movement. This is part of a larger long-term monitoring project at UBC Farm that focuses on understanding...

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Western Painted Turtle Nest Monitoring Project

Western Painted Turtle Nest Monitoring Project

Nanaimo Regional District

Wildlife cameras have been deployed to monitor restored nesting sites of the western painted turtle in the Nanaimo Regional District

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WildEdmonton

WildEdmonton

Edmonton, Alberta

Remote camera have been deployed to monitor temporal and spatial activity patterns or urban wildlife in Edmonton, Alberta. The study area comprising Edmonton and prescribed 3.2 km buffer is mostly urban with some suburban and peri-urban...

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Wildlife Responses to Recreation in Joffre Lakes and Garibaldi Provincial Parks

Wildlife Responses to Recreation in Joffre Lakes and Garibaldi Provincial Parks

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...

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Wildlife-Park Visitor Interaction in South BC Coast Parks

Wildlife-Park Visitor Interaction in South BC Coast Parks

The North Shore

This project is using a small number of strategically placed cameras to examine wildilfe movement through parks to support dog management in backcountry recreation areas.

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