Grants and Contributions:

Sustaining long-term community-based wildlife health surveillance in the Canadian Arctic

FEL-2627-0002

$50,000.00

Apr 1, 2026 - Mar 31, 2027

This project will strengthen community-based wildlife health surveillance for caribou and muskoxen in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut by expanding monitoring, improving data sharing, and increasing northern training opportunities. Led through partnerships among northern communities, Indigenous organizations, governments, and researchers, the project combines Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Western science to better understand wildlife health threats, support conservation and public health decisions, and enhance food security and sovereignty. By maintaining a northern research hub in Yellowknife and growing surveillance efforts into new regions, the project will build local capacity and improve long-term monitoring of Arctic wildlife health.

Polar Knowledge Canada

Strengthen community-based wildlife health surveillance for caribou and muskoxen across the Northwest Territories and Nunavut by expanding monitoring programs, enhancing data sharing, and increasing northern training opportunities, resulting in improved detection of wildlife health threats, stronger local research capacity, and better-informed conservation, public health, and food security decisions.

Calgary, Alberta, CA T2N 1N4

171-2026-2027-Q1-P0013

Grant

Grants and Contributions

Individual or sole proprietorship

Olivia Hee (University of Calgary)

Calgary Confederation

48005

Grants to Support Research and Activities Relating to The Polar Regions

To foster and encourage activities and events that promote greater awareness of, and increase knowledge about, polar regions. Attract, inform and inspire new generations to carry on Canada's increasing activities in polar affairs.