Yukon tender · Expression of Interest
Genetic sample analyses for grizzly bear and black bear hair through two rounds of analyses. The first analysis is to determine what individual bear the hair sample came from (individual identification). The second round of analysis is to better understand how bears identified are related (parentage genetic sample analysis for all individuals identified). Community: WhitehorseTraditional Territory: Ta?an Kw?ch??n Council and Kwanlin D?n First Nation
Reference number: RFEI-2026-2-5119
Issuing organization: Environment
Published: 2026-06-04
Closing date: 2026-06-18
Tender details
The project seeks a lab or research provider to analyze grizzly and black bear hair samples in two stages: individual genetic identification and parentage analysis. The results will support wildlife monitoring, population tracking, and understanding genetic relationships among bears in Yukon.