Prey driven away by wildfire, YKDFN Chief says wolves are turning to Yellowknife for food
From CBC News:
Wolf sightings have been “persistent” around Yellowknife, Ndilǫ and Dettah recently — and a chief with the Yellowknives Dene First Nation says it’s because they’ve lost habitat in this year’s wildfires.
Fred Sangris, the chief of Ndilǫ, said fires burned a lot of land in the region and drove away the wolves’ prey. “The only food the small mammals can depend on, including the fox, is right here at the city dump and people’s garbage,” he said.
According to N.W.T. Fire, more than 4.1 million hectares of land burned across the N.W.T. this year, topping the previous record set in 2014. About a quarter of the land that burned was in the North Slave region.
