The term of a "species at risk" listing is 10 years. (Supplied by NWT Species at Risk Committee.)
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NWT Species at Risk List adds the wood bison

Cameron Wilkinson
By Cameron Wilkinson

The wood bison has been added to the Northwest Territories List of Species at Risk.

The wood bison are being considered a threatened species.

There will be a mandatory strategy put in place in the next 2 years to begin to protect their numbers.

Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Robert C. McLeod, says the listing means a strategy must be made in order to maintain healthy animals in the Northwest Territories:

“Wood bison face a number of serious threats in the Northwest Territories, including infectious diseases, predation, human-caused mortality and habitat loss.”

Overall, the population of the wood bison in the NWT is small, sitting at roughly 2 500 animals total, which is a sharp decline of what the numbers previously were.

Cameron Wilkinson
Cameron Wilkinson
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