Larissa Nituch is a Science Operations Supervisor with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, leading the delivery of the provincial rabies research and control program. She has worked for MNRF for over 12 years in a diversity of roles related to wildlife research and monitoring, operations, and policy, and holds a Masters of Science from Trent University, focusing on disease in wild American mink. Larissa is also the lead for MNRF’s Chronic Wasting Disease Surveillance program as well as a variety of other wildlife health projects.

Websites and Links mentioned:
OPS Careers Website: https://www.gojobs.gov.on.ca/Jobs.aspx
MNRF Website: https://www.ontario.ca/page/ministry-natural-resources-and-forestry
MNRF on Facebook & Instagram: @ONresources
MNRF Rabies: https://www.ontario.ca/page/rabies
MNRF CWD: https://www.ontario.ca/page/chronic-wasting-disease

Thank you so much to Larissa for sharing her time and knowledge with us!

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You can help to stop the spread of rabies by:

• reporting dead bats
• checking your cargo, truck, boat and trailer for raccoons, especially if you’re leaving the United States
• removing food sources around your home that might attract wildlife, including pet food
• contacting local animal control if you find a wild animal in your truck or cargo
• not releasing wildlife without reporting it to the MNRF
• never trapping and relocating wildlife (it’s illegal to move wild animals more than 1 km)

I recorded this episode on the Williams Treaty, signed in 1923 by 7 Anishnaabe First Nations. The closest community to me is the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation. This region is the traditional territory of the Anishnaabe and Haudenosaunee peoples, which they shared peacefully under the Dish with One Spoon Wampum agreement. Today, it is still home to many First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples.

Music by Scott Holmes
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes  

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