After a troubled decade, it’s time Ottawa and the provinces undertook a serious review of the game farming industry. More than 600 farmers in Alberta and more than 500 in Saskatchewan have put up tall wire fences and run domesticated elk and white-tailed deer in an effort to diversify their Read more
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has banned four former Saskatchewan elk farmers from growing grain or raising livestock because their land may harbour chronic wasting disease organisms. They’re among 40 farms in Saskatchewan where elk tested positive for the fatal brain-wasting disease after a diseased elk was imported from South Read more
The spread of lethal chronic-wasting disease to a third species of wildlife in Canada has scientists calling for a wide-ranging inquiry into elk- and deer-farming industry. The highly contagious so-called mad-elk disease was found last week in a white-tailed deer on an Alberta game farm. Over the past two years, Read more
Handling heads is not how most people make their living. But, for local Wildlife Technician Dwight Dobson, it’s just another day at the office. He is part of a province wide effort to control Chronic Wasting Disease. To help facilitate that, the Department of Environment is requesting that all hunters Read more
CARNDUFF — Another wild mule deer is suspected of having Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Saskatchewan. The positive test result came from a mule deer shot this fall southeast of Saskatchewan Landing Provincial Park near Stewart Valley. The sample from the two-year-old mule deer buck has been sent to the Read more
A test done in Saskatoon indicates there may be another case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a wild deer in Saskatchewan. The suspicious case was found in a two-year-old mule deer buck taken this fall southeast of Saskatchewan Landing Provincial Park near Stewart Valley. Earlier this month the province’s Read more
REGINA — The provincial Environment Department is asking for the public’s help to control the spread of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in wild mule deer. Four cases of the disease have been confirmed in the province since fall 2000, with three being found in the Manito Sand Hills south of Read more
Saskatchewan has its fourth confirmed case of chronic wasting disease in the wild deer population, but this one is different from the previous three. “It showed up in an area outside of what we thought was the containment area,” said Kevin Callele, manager of resource allocation with Saskatchewan Environment’s fish Read more
Manitoba- Chronic wasting disease, a fatal neurological disorder similar to mad cow disease, has been found in a wild deer in an area previously thought free of it, officials in the Canadian Prairie province of Saskatchewan said on Thursday. Since 1990, three cases of the disease had been found in Read more
Saskatchewan Environment has received confirmation of another case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in wild deer. The latest positive sample was found in a two-year-old mule deer buck taken this fall near Saskatchewan Landing Provincial Park, north of Swift Current. The sample was tested at the Canadian Co-operative Wildlife Health Read more