Wildlife Effects Monitoring Program, Construction Phase, Ekati Diamond Mine (BHP Billiton, January 1999)
This 1998 Wildlife Effects Monitoring Program report for the Ekati Diamond Mine documents baseline and impact data on valued ecosystem components including caribou, grizzly bears, wolves, wolverines, upland breeding birds, loons, and raptors during the mine's construction phase. The monitoring found minimal impacts to wildlife, with caribou displaying avoidance behavior near the mine but spending less than 1% of migration time in proximity to it, and landfill management issues attracting gulls and ravens with potential effects on songbird predation.
- Date
- 1999-01-01
- Document type
- report
- Parties
- BHP Diamonds Inc., Golder Associates Ltd., Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency (IEMA), Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development (RWED), Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS), Ecology North
- Locations
- Ekati Diamond Mine, Northwest Territories, Lac de Gras, Slave Geological Province, Yellowknife, Bathurst Inlet, Arctic Ocean, Panda Pit, Misery Pit, Long Lake Tailings Containment Area
- Parameters
- caribou abundance and behaviour, caribou collisions, caribou disturbance, caribou habitat loss, caribou habitat reclamation, barriers to caribou movement, grizzly bear habitat and den sites, wolf den sites, wolverine activity and denning, upland breeding bird density, loon occupancy, raptor nesting and fledgling success, wildlife-human interactions, vehicle and aircraft traffic, landfill attractants, mine construction disturbance
- Pages
- 272
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