Dr. Donald Reid
Associate Conservation Zoologist

Donald Reid joined the Wildlife Conservation Society in August 2004 as a wildlife biologist working out of Whitehorse, Yukon.  Don has spent 25 years working as a wildlife biologist in the academic, non-government, private and government sectors.

In the boreal and sub-boreal forests of western Canada, Don has studied the foraging, habitat and behavioural ecology of river otters and beavers, and the effect of different landscape scales of forest harvesting on the population dynamics of snowshoe hare and lynx. In the mountains of British Columbia, Don has been a member of teams studying wolverines and mapping mountain goat habitats.  In arctic Canada, he has studied the role of predation in a non-cyclic lemming population, and the demography of nesting seabirds.  In the eastern Himalaya of Sichuan Province, China, Don has studied habitat selection by giant pandas, and the general ecology of red pandas and Asiatic black bears, a project that was partially supported by WCS.  

For the past eight years, Don worked for the British Columbia provincial government, undertaking research and acting as a coordinator of environmental risk assessment for land-use planning, as well as acting as an adviser and reviewer for a variety of wildlife inventory and research projects.  He has published numerous papers and book chapters in the scientific and popular literature.  He is a past member of the IUCN Species Survival Commission Bear and Procyonid Specialist Groups.