Feasibility of including reproductive outcomes in oil sands wildlife biomonitoring programs

虽然油砂工业为加拿大提供了巨大的经济利益，但这一资源的开发并非没有争议。事实上，人们对油砂工业对环境和人类健康的影响感到担忧。因此，2012年建立了联合油砂监测（JOSM）计划;该监测计划由油砂生产商支付，包括加拿大油砂创新联盟（COSIA）的13家成员公司。尽管科学家、环保组织和社区组织已经提出了对油砂活动造成的不良生殖结果的担忧，但作为该计划的一部分，还没有对生殖结果进行评估。实验室研究有明确的证据表明，接触与油砂活动有关的化学品和金属会对哺乳动物的生殖产生深远的影响。有人建议，河獭可以作为个体和群体水平的健康风险的指标，以野生动物和人类。因此，该项目的目标是确定是否可以在水獭繁殖结果被收集作为JOSM狩猎者-捕集者收获的野生动物毒理学监测计划的一部分.

Although the oil sands industry provides significant economic benefits to Canada, the development of thisresource has not been without controversy. Indeed, there have been a number of concerns regarding the impactof the oil sands industry on the environment and human health. As a result, in 2012 the Joint Oil SandsMonitoring (JOSM) program was established; this monitoring program is paid for by oil sands producersincluding the 13 member companies of the Canadian Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA). Despite the factthat concerns about adverse reproductive outcomes resulting from oil sands activities have been raised byscientists, environmental groups and community organizations, there have been no assessments of reproductiveoutcomes as part of this program. There is clear evidence from laboratory studies that exposure to chemicalsand metals which are related to oil sands activity can have profound effects on reproduction in mammals. It hasbeen suggested that river otters may serve as indicators for individual and population-level health risks to bothwildlife and humans. Therefore the goal of this project is to determine if reproductive outcomes can bedetermined in otters that are being collected as part of the JOSM hunter-trapper harvested wildlife toxicologymonitoring program.