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Instructions & Guidebooks
Bear Aware: How to establish bylaws in your community - a step by step guide.
Mining and Petroleum Environmental Research Group: These guidelines provide best practices for minimizing the impacts of increased industrial activity on bears and bear habitat and handling bear encounters.
Canadian Council on Animal Care: The Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC) is responsible for overseeing the use of animals in research, teaching and testing. Participation in the CCAC program is mandatory for academic institutions. Failure to adhere to CCAC guidelines and policies may lead to suspension of funding for research programs and/or institutions (CCAC, Guide to the Care and Use of Experimental Animals, vol. 1, 2nd ed., 1993; CIHR, NSERC & SSHRC, Memorandum of Understanding on the Roles and Responsibilities in the Management of Federal Grants and Awards, Schedule 3: Ethical Review of Research Involving Animals, 2000). Although the care and use of wildlife is regulated through provincial, territorial and federal legislation, some agencies responsible for wildlife have adopted animal care guidelines, including those of the CCAC, and have established internal committees that oversee the care and use of wildlife for research, management and operational procedures. Many of these agencies are keenly interested in and/or are participating in the CCAC program in order to provide public accountability for their work.
John Beecham, Ph.D., WSPA: The following information was developed based on the experience of the author in raising and releasing American black bears in Idaho between 1972 and the present, from information derived from the scientific literature and from the observations and experience of many bear rehabilitators who responded in 2005 to a survey of bear rehabilitation centers around the world. The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) funded the survey. It was sent electronically to 40 individuals with experience raising and/or releasing orphan bear cubs. They were asked to identify critical components of the rehabilitation process associated with successful releases. Twenty-three individuals representing seven countries responded to the survey, providing information on the methods they used to raise, release and monitor the survival of six species of bears. Specific topics addressed in the survey included the physical characteristics of the rehabilitation facility, handling and care of the cubs, funding sources and release and monitoring protocols. A short follow-up survey was sent to selected individuals to gather additional information about the fates of released bears.
Human-Bear Conflict Working Group - WSPA: This document was designed to provide information for decision-makers in government and specialized non-governmental organizations (NGO) to improve their understanding and management of HBC. HBC situations are complex and each situation requires careful analysis and an interdisciplinary, science-based approach that involves affected peoples. The goal here is to provide a general outline of fundamental concepts and ideas associated with HBC, which can be investigated more thoroughly to deal with specific situations.
Sylvia Dolson et al, Get Bear Smart Society: This 85 page guide will provide you with a better understanding of bear behaviour and an understanding
of various techniques for responding to human-bear conflicts, including an introductory level
working knowledge of bear aversion methodology. The knowledge gained through this guide
will enable you to better understand and diffuse human-bear conflict situations in a manner that
increases safety for the public, the bear manager/police officer and bears.
FundRaising Success, a Target Marketing Group Publication: Face it, no one likes to talk about death - especially not his or her own. And to talk about planned giving, you have to acknowledge the fact that a "planned" gift is one that will be given to a charity after the donor has shuffled off his or her mortal coil. It takes a very specific approach - and personality type - to do it well. This whitepaper introduces you to: (1) Seven essential steps to launching a successful planned-giving program; (2) 10 things you must know about planned giving; (3) The seven deadly sins of planned-giving strategies; (4) How to make planned-giving donors feel special; (5) The privacy pitfalls inherent in planned giving and how to avoid them.
FundRaising Success: You've heard the whispers in the wind - more and more people, especially younger ones - are eschewing personal e-mail and relying on social-networking sites like MySpace and Facebook to communicate with their friends. As a result, many personal e-mail accounts are not much more than repositories for marketing messages whose subject lines get a quick glance before the owners hit the "Delete" button. Whether things have gone that far or not (and we don't believe they have, yet), the fact remains that anyone with an e-mail account is the target of hundreds of marketing messages a day and the potential target of thousands - many of them fundraising appeals from you and your (for lack of a better word) competitors. Your job as a legit professional looking to raise funds via e-mail is to make your e-mail messages stand out amid the ads for male-enhancement pills and diet breakthroughs and the latest appeal from the beleaguered Nigerian prince who wants to give someone a million dollars to help him keep his family fortune from falling into the hands of his oppressors.
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