The Wildlife Awareness Course provides an overview of wildlife in Canada that participants should be aware of when working or recreating in a remote environment. The program focuses on methods of preventing and avoiding an encounter through education and planning, but also deals with ways to minimize the consequences when an encounter becomes unavoidable.
Our Wildlife Awareness program is available as a 4 hour “facilitated” course, or can be completed as a self study unit that includes an exam. At the conclusion of the workshop participants will have been “exposed” to:
- Bears
- Ungulates
- Cougars
- Mosquitoes (West Nile Virus)
- Ticks (Lyme Disease)
- Rattlesnakes
- Rodents (Hantavirus)
- Bats (Rabies)
- Giardia and Cryptosporidium
Specific areas of focus can be added or enhanced as required, in order to relate more closely to your work environment. For example for those working in the Arctic we have included Polar Bears.
Hours: 4