Prevent conflicts with wildlife
Learn how you can avoid conflicts with wild animals, from Canada geese to coyotes.
Wildlife
Please take precautions to avoid conflicts or contact with wildlife:
- always keep you, your family and pets a safe distance away from wildlife
- do not feed wildlife or touch wildlife droppings
- avoid attracting wildlife and do not accidentally provide them with food, water or shelter (for example, feed your pets indoors)
- always wash your hands and supervise children washing their hands after working or playing outside
- leave orphaned wild animals alone (parents are often close by and will return for their young)
- do not approach or touch a sick or dead animal
The Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative (CWHC) has issued who may have reason to handle wildlife, including bats.
Wildlife resources
- Harass, capture or kill a wild animal damaging private property
- Prevent conflicts with bats
- Preventing and managing conflicts with birds
- Preventing and managing conflicts with coyotes
- Preventing and managing conflicts with deer, elk and moose
- Preventing and managing conflicts with lynx, bobcats and cougars
- Preventing and managing conflicts with small animals
- Preventing and managing conflicts with snakes
- Preventing and reporting encounters with black bears (Bear Wise)
- Preventing conflicts with beavers
- Wild animal control: information for municipalities
Updated: August 02, 2022
Published: February 10, 2016