Healthy Wildlife

The blog of the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative

Monthly Archive: June 2014

The uses of trail cameras 0

Ontario/Nunavut

The uses of trail cameras

Trail cameras are an increasingly popular method of gaining information about the presence, population composition, activities, health and interactions of a variety of wildlife species.  As digital photographic technology has become both more sophisticated...

CWHC Announces New Executive Director 1

News & Announcements

CWHC Announces New Executive Director

The Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative (CWHC) has selected Dr. Craig Stephen, a wildlife health specialist and a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan (U of S), as its new executive director. Stephen will assume...

Rabies in a Raccoon in New Brunswick 0

Atlantic / Rabies

Rabies in a Raccoon in New Brunswick

On June 2nd of this year, a raccoon from St. Stephen, New Brunswick, tested positive for the raccoon variant of rabies.  The raccoon rabies variant was last detected in New Brunswick in May 2002,...