Wildlife Effects Monitoring Program (WEMP), Ekati Diamond Mine (BHP Billiton, April 2011)
BHP Billiton's 2010 Wildlife Effects Monitoring Program annual report documents wildlife impacts and management at the EKATI Diamond Mine in the Northwest Territories from October 2009 to September 2010, including monitoring of habitat loss, wildlife mortalities and incidents, caribou behavior and migration, predator occurrence, and breeding bird populations across 1,600–6,300 km² study areas.
- Date
- 2011-04-14
- Document type
- report
- Parties
- BHP Billiton Canada Inc., Rescan Environmental Services Ltd., Government of the Northwest Territories Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Canadian Wildlife Service, Diavik Diamond Mines Inc., Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency, Yellowknives Dene First Nation, Tlicho Government, North Slave Metis Alliance, Kitikmeot Inuit Association, Lutselk'e Dene First Nation
- Locations
- EKATI Diamond Mine, Northwest Territories, Lac de Gras, Yamba Lake, Yellowknife, Bathurst caribou herd range, Misery Road, Sable Road, Grizzly Road, Pigeon Road, Fox Pit, Panda Underground, Koala Underground, Koala North Underground, Long Lake Containment Facility, Misery Pit, Beartooth Pit, Koala Pit, Koala North Pit, Slave Geological Province, Daring Lake, Diavik, Kennady Lake, Snap Lake, Treeline, Arctic Circle
- Parameters
- wildlife habitat alteration and loss, caribou abundance and migration, caribou behaviour and activity budgets, caribou road permeability and deflection, grizzly bear occurrence and incidents, wolf den occupancy and productivity, wolverine abundance and movement, fox occurrence and incidents, falcon and raptor nesting occupancy and productivity, breeding bird diversity, wildlife mortalities, vehicle-wildlife interactions, waste management and wildlife attractants, wildlife deterrence and mitigation effectiveness, wildlife-infrastructure conflicts, DNA mark-recapture abundance estimates
- Pages
- 267
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