Feasibility of including reproductive outcomes in oil sands wildlife biomonitoring programs

尽管油砂行业为加拿大提供了巨大的经济效益，但这种资源的开发也并非没有争议。事实上，人们对油砂行业对环境和人类健康的影响表示了一些关切。因此，2012年建立了油砂联合监测(JOSM)计划；该监测计划由包括加拿大油砂创新联盟(COSIA)13家成员公司在内的油砂生产商支付费用。尽管科学家、环保团体和社区组织对油砂活动造成的不利生殖后果提出了担忧，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物质和金属会对哺乳动物的繁殖产生深远的影响。有人建议，河獭可以作为个体和种群层面对野生动物和人类健康风险的指示器。因此，该项目的目标是确定是否可以确定作为JOSM猎人-捕猎者捕获野生动物毒物监测计划一部分收集的水獭的繁殖结果。

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.