Wildlife camera shows N.W.T. tundra teeming with life -- including a powerful grizzly

[Spazito]

After retrieving more than 300 SD cards from wildlife cameras spread out over Thaidene Nëné Indigenous Protected Area in the N.W.T. at the end of the summer, it was obvious to Iris Catholique which one to look at first.

The iron post that camera had been fastened to was bent at a 90-degree angle, and people involved in the biodiversity monitoring project were trying to guess what animal could have inflicted the damage.

"Once they figured out it was a grizzly bear ... it kind of puts in perspective like actually how strong they are," said Catholique, the Thaidene Nëné manager for Łutsel K'e Dene First Nation. "This is iron. Angle iron. And the bear totally mangled it."

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Images from the camera show a grizzly bear wandering up to the device one morning in May. The animal disappears from view, and suddenly the camera's angle turns about 90 degrees. The grizzly bear ambles away.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/wildlife-camera-nwt-tundra-1.6702318

[2naSalit]

1. Amazing!

I love seeing this kind of study and the images produced.

[Spazito]

2. Me too!

Seeing these put things in balance if only for a little bit.

[2naSalit]

3. I have to admit my bias...

Once I entered academia at a late age, environmental issues became my main interest and I spent the rest of, mostly, my working years in that field in public and private sectors.

For years I had access to numerous studies and databases while lobbying in favor of nature. Wildlife protection is key to our survival and humans need to act as if they get that fact.

[Spazito]

4. I completely agree....

we are encroaching more and more into wildlife territory, destroying it and all that lives in it. Unless and until we humans realize what we are doing, we are destroying our future along with the very balance of nature that allows us to survive and thrive.

[3Hotdogs]

5. My favorite is the wolves.