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: southwestern Alberta, Canada - study area extended from the Canadian-United States border north to the Brazeau River but excluded Banff and Jasper National Parks
D. Timescale of use
Start Year: 2012
End Year: 2014
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: Personal opinion
Brief summary on why the use has been assessed/judged to be sustainable or unsustainable: Because turnover of packs occurred infrequently during our study, we could not reject our hypothesis that abundance and distribution of packs would remain generally stable in a harvested population of wolves over several years.
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
Record source
Information about the record source: scientific_pub
Date of publication/issue/production: 2019-01-01T00:00:00+0000
Source Reference(s):
Date of record entry: 2023-04-18