Sahtu Wildlife Health Outreach and Monitoring Program: Evaluating the health of moose, barren-ground and mountain caribou in the Sahtu Region, Northwest Territories

• Main Authors: Kutz, S., Veitch, A.
• Other Authors: Elkin, B., Kenny, B., Popko, R., Yukon, C.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Polar Data Catalogue 2015
• Subjects: Bluenose East caribou herd; Bluenose West caribou herd; Body condition; Capacity building; Caribou; Disease; Moose; Northwest Territories; Parasite; Pathogen; Sahut Settlement Area, Northwest Territories, Canada; environment; Canada; Colville Lake; Fort Good Hope; Sahtu Region
• Online Access: https://www.polardata.ca/pdcsearch/PDCSearchDOI.jsp?doi_id=1567

We trained local wildlife health monitors (WHMs) to collect samples and record health and condition data on animals that they harvested for subsistence. A pilot project was developed in 2004 in Déline. Two aboriginal hunters that were recommended by the local Renewable Resource Council were trained...