💫 Management of caribou threats may benefit wolverine, but a complete management strategy for wolverine would rely on effective caribou conservation actions that have meaningful on-ground impacts and the management of additional wolverine-specific threats.

🔍 For wolverine, current conservation objectives are not well defined. Only four conservation documents list recovery actions for wolverine, and the most recent national document (2014) does not list any. This leads to a disconnect between identified problems and proposed solutions.

🌿 Many threats relevant to wolverine and caribou may be addressed through effective management of caribou critical habitat,which implicitly involves managing for the cumulative effects of industrial disturbance. Is this being effectively done in Canada? Probably not.

🏭 We found considerable overlap between wolverine and caribou in listed threats and recovery actions. Habitat loss, hunting and trapping, sensory disturbance, and linear features were all key threats to both species.

🍁 We systematically reviewed conservation documentation and scientific literature to investigate the extent woodland caribou-focused conservation is likely to benefit wolverine. Writing this paper, I learned so much about how conservation works in Canada.

Here’s a few things that stood out to me: