A. Species
Scientific name: Canis lupus
Common name(s): Wolf
Global IUCN Red List Threat Status: Least Concern
B. Location of use
Geographic location(s):
- Alberta
Country/Region:
C. Scale of assessment
Scale of assessment: Individual Site
Name/Details of location: west of Rocky Mountain House, about 200 km southwest of Edmonton, Alberta (52°27′N, 115°45′W)
D. Timescale of use
Start Year: 2003
End Year: 2008
E. Information about the use
How is the wild species sourced?: Wild species sourced from its natural habitat
Type of use: Extractive
Practice of use: Hunting and/or Trapping of live terrestrial and aerial animals
Lethal or non-lethal: Lethal
Does this use involve take/extraction of: The whole entire organism
Purpose(s) of end use: Recreation, Conservation Management and Damage mitigation
Motivation of use: Income generation from trade (individual/household/community), Recreational and Population/Area Management
Is this use legal or illegal?: Legal under national law
F. Information about the Users
Which stakeholder(s) does the record primarily focus on?: Local people and Non-local Internal
G. Information about the sustainability of use
Is there evidence that the use is having an impact on the target species?: Wild species sourced from its natural habitat
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from an ecological perspective been recorded?: Yes, considered sustainable
Details of assessment carried out: ecological formula on net recruitment of wolf population (see paper`)
Brief summary on why the use has been assessed/judged to be sustainable or unsustainable: At the reported mortality and reproductive rates, net re- cruitment (eq. 3) was 2.5 wolves/year with the 95% confi- dence interval (–56.1 to 61.1) encompassing zero, indicating that reproduction was sufficient to offset the combined natu- ral and harvest mortalities.
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from an economic perspective been recorded?: not recorded
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from a social perspective been recorded?: not recorded
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from a human health perspective been recorded?: not recorded
Has an assessment (or judgement) of sustainability of the use of the target species from an animal health/welfare perspective been recorded?: not recorded
Recommendations provided in the record to maintain or enhance the sustainability of the use of the target species
If industrial de- velopment and associated access increase in this area, as is expected during the next decade, harvest pressure by hunters may increase and more breeding wolves are likely to be killed. Even if limits were imposed, illegal take may occur, making access management important (Person and Russell 2008). Implementation of mandatory registration of hunter kills, combined with web-based surveys of hunters as occurs with other game species, may provide a means of obtaining the information needed for managing wolves for the diverse public interested in wolves in this area.
Record source
Information about the record source: scientific_pub
Date of publication/issue/production: 2011-01-01T00:00:00+0000
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Date of record entry: 2023-04-18