Caribou and Roads: Implementing Traditional Knowledge in Wildlife Monitoring at the Ekati Diamond Mine, 2006 Annual Report, Plain Language Version (BHP Billiton, October 2007)
This 2006 annual report documents the Caribou and Roads Traditional Knowledge Project at the Ekati Diamond Mine, detailing collaboration between BHP Billiton and Kugluktuk Inuit elders to protect caribou through indigenous knowledge integration. The report describes monitoring activities, inokhok construction for caribou guidance, road safety measures, and a March 2007 workshop where 28 community members discussed mine impacts on caribou herds and shared recommendations for future mine operations.
- Date
- 2007-10-01
- Document type
- report
- Parties
- BHP Billiton Diamonds Inc., Rescan Environmental Services Ltd., Vivian Banci, Jimmy Hanak, Jack Ovilok, Helen Enogaloak, Kugluktuk elders, Nunavut Department of Environment, Ekati Environment Department
- Locations
- Ekati Diamond Mine, Northwest Territories, Lac de Gras, Kugluktuk, Pigeon Valley, Pigeon Creek, Pigeon Culvert, Sable Road, Beartooth Pit, Fox Pit, Misery Pit, Misery Road, Airstrip, Great Bear Lake, Paulatuk, Bathurst Inlet, Queen Maud Gulf, Victoria Island
- Parameters
- caribou abundance, caribou migration, caribou habitat, wildlife monitoring, road crossings, inokhok, caribou deterrence, snow fence, traditional knowledge, wildlife safety, spring migration, post-calving movement, herd population trends, Bluenose West herd, Bluenose East herd, Bathurst herd, Ahiak herd, Dolphin and Union herd
- Pages
- 39
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