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Collecting and Archiving Wildlife Specimens in Canada

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Environmental Specimen Banking and Monitoring as Related to Banking

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The Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS) has been actively collecting wildlife specimens for toxic chemical analysis since the mid-1960s. In many cases, the portion of the specimen remaining after analysis was deep frozen for possible future use. By 1979, this collection numbered over 10,000 individual specimens and threatened to outgrow the available storage facilities. It was becoming increasingly apparent that a specimen bank could be a valuable asset to an environmental monitoring program by providing the capability for retrospective analysis and that the CWS collection represented a unique opportunity to establish such a facility. A commitment was then made to transform the existing ad hoc storage operation into a viable specimen bank, as an integral component of a CWS national monitoring program for toxic chemicals in wildlife.

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  1. Toxic Chemicals Program Section Wildlife Toxicology Division, Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0E7, Canada

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Elliott, J.E. (1984). Collecting and Archiving Wildlife Specimens in Canada. In: Lewis, R.A., Stein, N., Lewis, C.W. (eds) Environmental Specimen Banking and Monitoring as Related to Banking. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6765-6_9

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