Concerns

Hay-Zama Concerns

Oil and gas exploration and production. Two of the largest producers in the area are Nav Energy Trust (formerly Navigo Energy) and Pengrowth Energy Trust (formerly Crispin Energy).
The surrounding forests are highly fragmented by seismic lines, cutlines, ATV trails and logging activity.
Deforestation
Hunting
Avian botulism outbreaks have been noticed more frequently in recent years. In 1989, an outbreak killed 6,022 birds, and in 1998, 1,000 birds died. In the late summer and fall of 2000, a cleanup operation disposed of about 100,000 dead birds.
The Hay-Zama wood bison herd may be at risk from the wood bison in and around Wood Buffalo National Park, which are infected with bovine tuberculosis and bovine brucellosis.
Other pressures on the herd include expansion of agriculture in the boreal region, in particular commercial bison ranching, and increasing industrialization of northern parts of the province.