Recreational Impacts on the Wildlife of the South Chilcotins

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Recreational Impacts on the Wildlife of the South Chilcotins

64 wildlife cameras have been deployed with the South Chilcotin Mountains Provincial Park and adjacent Mining and Tourism Areas (MTAs) to investigate the effects of multiple types of recreation's impacts on the wildlife living within the study boundaries. This is in addition to a general species inventory.

Project Leads: Robin Naidoo

Affiliations: World Wildlife Fund - US; BC Parks, British Columbia Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy

Project Collaborators: Cole Burton

Focal Species: All; Grizzly Bear

Publications:

Relative effects of recreational activities on a temperate terrestrial wildlife assemblage

Robin Naidoo, A. Cole Burton

Conservation Science and Practice | 2020

Mammalian predator and prey responses to recreation and land use across multiple scales provide limited support for the human shield hypothesis

Alys Granados, Catherine Sun, Jason T. Fisher, Andrew Ladle, Kimberly Dawe, Christopher Beirne, Mark S. Boyce, Emily Chow, Nicole Heim, Mitchell Fennell, Joanna Klees van Bommel, Robin Naidoo, Michael Procko, Frances E. C. Stewart, A. Cole Burton

Ecology and Evolution | 2023

Combining eDNA Metabarcoding, Hydrology-Based Modeling and Camera Trap Datasets to Assess the Potential of River eDNA in Monitoring Terrestrial Mammals

Monika Goralczyk, Arnaud Lyet, Robin Naidoo, Cole Burton, Loïc Pellissier, Luca Carraro

Environmental DNA | 2025

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