Wildlife Monitoring Plan, Ekati Diamond Mine (BHP Billiton, January 1998)
This draft Wildlife Monitoring Plan for BHP's Ekati Diamond Mine outlines a risk-based framework for monitoring impacts on valued ecosystem components (VECs) including caribou, grizzly bears, wolves, wolverines, and birds. The plan details monitoring hypotheses, implementation strategies, and measurement endpoints for tracking mine-related stressors from construction through post-closure phases.
- Date
- Document type
- Report
- Parties
- BHP Diamonds Inc., Golder Associates Ltd., Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency (IEMA), Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC), GNWT (RWED)
- Locations
- Ekati Diamond Mine, Northwest Territories, Yellowknife, Bathurst Inlet, Slave Geological Province, Panda pit, Misery Pit, Diavik Diamond Mine, Exeter Lake, Lac du Sauvage, Lac de Gras, Sable Lake, Lupin winter road
- Parameters
- caribou abundance and behavior, grizzly bear population and den sites, wolf population and den sites, wolverine population and den sites, upland breeding birds, breeding and migratory waterbirds, raptors, habitat loss and reclamation, vehicle collisions, aircraft collisions, disturbance from mine activities, barriers to movement, fly rock and pit safety, attractants and garbage disposal, ecological land classification (ELC)
- Pages
- 202
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