
Wildlife
Wolverine: Tracking the elusive trickster
The trickster hero — ferocious, clever and strong — will need all of its ingenuity to continue to flourish
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A healthy wolverine population is a strong indicator of a healthy ecosystem, since wolverines need lots of types of food and lots of space to roam.
Today, the biggest threat to wolverines is habitat loss and human development. Researchers are working with Indigenous communities across the North to track and monitor wolverine populations to better understand how their habitats are being affected by human encroachment.
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