Moose populations are declining in some parts of Canada’s west and the government of British Columbia province is planning a major study to find out why. 230 moose will be collared and tracked by satellite. If they stop moving over a 24-hour period they will be presumed dead. Helicopters will fly biologists in to try to see what happened and take tissue samples for analysis.
“Big concern”
Listen“There’s big concern and big effort being made to sort out what the issues are and then deal with them,” says Doug Heard, a wildlife biologist with the British Columbia Ministry of Forests of BC.
Hunting, road building, wolf predation and changes to the ecosystem may be factors in the moose decline which is more pronounced in the western United States and is also occurring in parts of Europe. But for now, no one is sure why moose are dying.
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