A Trent University student has won a US$14,000 scholarship to study lynx in Ontario.

Megan Hornseth will use the Wildlife Conservation Society scholarship to cover her costs as she traps and collars lynx with global positioning system hardware near Thunder Bay.

The Wildlife Conservation Society is a U.S.-based group that saves wildlife and wildlands through science, international conservation and education.

Hornseth wants to know where lynx travel so she can learn about their habitats, she said.

“As a little kid, my mom tells me I was the kid poking at everything,” Hornseth said.

“My hope is to be able to determine some sort of policy to mitigate the decline - or increase - of the population.”

Canada lynx are threatened in the United States, but not in Canada. Without a global perspective on wildlife management, she said, there is no hope of protecting species.

Hornseth graduated from the University of Guelph two years ago and worked on an endangered species of fox in southern California and red squirrels in the Yukon before returning to school at Trent in January for a master degree.

“Having the two contrasting projects, one with an endangered species and one that wasn’t, allowed me to see that I really wanted to work with endangered species,” she said.

Her goal is to increase public awareness of the need for global wildlife management, she said.

“It’s an interesting award, because it is specifically for wildcat research. I was competing against tigers and jaguars and different species of leopards,” Hornseth said.

“The most important part is that the Wildlife Conservation Society is on my side. That can’t help but increase awareness.”

Information from: www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com

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