NWT advises residents to report sightings of dead, sick birds

  • 8 months ago
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Social media tasks about dead or dying birds pushed northwest territory remind the residents to report such landscapes authorities. On Tuesday, NWT said that the Environment and Climate Change Department received reports of dead birds in the region on Facebook. “A wild bird if you move strangely or find a dead, don't touch it, EC ECC wrote that the residents should tell the local ECC offices or wildlifevetiarangov.nt.nn.ca immediately.. Although the Facebook post means another frightening situation in NWT, Naima Jutha, regional wildlife veterinarian and chief veterinary officer, said there was no increase in dead wildlife. Jutha said that there was a response to indicators that people see dead or struggling birds during weekend, where thick smoke in some parts of NWT makes sky a deep orange, and from time to time completely prevented sun. On Saturday Facebook post, person explained that raven was few minutes later. Although he approached the ECC staff about such landscapes and was met on social media, Jutha said that there was no increase in the presentation of dead animals to ECC offices. Also, there was no usual even a higher report on the dead wildlife who came typically several times a week. “Today I talked to our officers and said that there was no dramatic change in their calls in their calls,” he said. Jutha said that the task aims to inform people about who will call and what they should do if noticed a sick or dead animal. “I think it's great to publish on Facebook,” he said, adding that it is also important to communicate with ECC through a local renewable source office or through E -mail. He called on people not to touch or approach dead or sick animals. Jutha said that reporting the dead or sick wild life helps the region with ongoing disease supervision and health monitoring.told. In the best scenario, Jutha said that after receiving a report, ECC staff would send tissue to test what might be behind any potential increase in wildlife deaths that would collect, evaluate and evaluate the animal. Jutha, forest fire smoke, just like people can affect the health of animals potentially said. The region still watched bird flu. In April, since 2021, since 2021, a highly contagious bird influenza strain known as H5N1 in Canada in CanadaHe killed or infected millions of birds. “Shoot your wood, we are great in the area here, Jut Jutha said, referring to Bird Influenza. “For the last few years, we have only three positive cases during this epidemic. All of these were in 2022." He said that bird flu will continue and that the new reports of dead birds will be “strictly in communication with wildlife officers”.

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