Rare wolverines on the move in NWO

Ministry of Natural Resources
News Release

The Boreal Wolverine Project has now captured and collared six wolverines (three females and three males) in the Ear Falls - Red Lake area of northwestern Ontario. The latest captures, two males caught the last week of February, are on the move.
Neil Dawson, Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) Wolverine Project Lead at Northwest Science and Information in Thunder Bay is plotting the locations received from the satellite collars. He notes that one recently captured male (M02) is currently just over 100 km west of his capture location, and the other male (M03) moved 40 km east of his capture site before heading west again.
In addition, Dr. Audrey Magoun, Living Legacy Trust Boreal Wolverine Project Leader will be conducting the second aerial track survey within the study zone to determine the distribution of wolverine and prey species within the area. Aerial radio-telemetry flights are also being conducted to keep tabs on a couple of the wolverines whose satellite transmitters are working only sporadically.
The project team have also set up a series of remote cameras and established hair-snagging stations in a portion of the study area to evaluate the effectiveness of these non-invasive techniques for detecting wolverine.
Earlier this year, one female (F02) was accidentally killed in a trap set for otters. Her radio collar was recovered and has been redeployed on one of the recently captured males (M03). During the one month that F02 was radio-tracked, she covered an area of over 500 square kilometres.
Ontario’s wolverine population is listed as a special concern by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC), which means it’s sensitive to human activity or natural events.