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Claudio Bianchini is a Registered Professional Biologist with more than 20 years’ experience with inventory and research projects on many species of mammals (bears, furbearers, ungulates, small mammals, and cetaceans; birds (raptors, waterfowl, tundra and forest birds); amphibians and reptiles. In addition, he is also experienced with ecosystem and vegetation inventories.
Claudio has worked on wildlife and vegetation inventories, monitoring, and habitat assessment projects in Nunavut, Alaska, and Alberta; as well as throughout British Columbia. In addition, Claudio worked as a wetland technician for the British Columbia Ministry of Environment Lower Mainland Region (1994-1995). During this period, he also worked for the British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Kamloops District, on a Silvicultural Systems Research Project where he conducted small mammal and forest bird research.
From 2005 to 2012, Claudio was a field biologist for an on-going wildlife monitoring program for the Agnico Eagle Meadowbank Gold Mine project, north of Baker Lake, Nunavut; from 2008 to 2009 for the Areva Uranium Mine project at Kiggavik, Nunavut, and from 2010 to 2012 the Cameco Uranium Mine project at Turqavik-Aberdeen, Kivalliq, Nunavut.
In 2011, Claudio participated in the survey of the Beverly and Ahiak herds, Queen Maud Gulf and Northeast Mainland calving grounds.
During 2011 and 2012, Claudio was involved with the Environmental Impact Assessment for the Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk Highway. In 2007, Claudio also participated in the field programs for the Hackett River Silver Project and the Bathurst Inlet Port and Road Project in the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut. In addition to the field program, Claudio was also involved with Ecosystems and Vegetation Effects Assessment for the Bathurst Inlet Port and Road Project.
For the Meadowbank, Kiggavik, Turqavik-Aberdeen and Beverly and Ahiak projects, he has conducted aerial and ground surveys of calving and post-calving caribou, muskoxen, carnivores, waterfowl, other breeding birds, small mammal trapping, and soil and vegetation sampling, and has been involved in the writing of the Environmental Impact Assessment for the Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk Highway.
Claudio has worked on many Terrestrial Ecosystem Mapping (TEM) projects throughout British Columbia. His contribution to these projects included the development of wildlife habitat models for many species, including caribou, moose, elk, mule deer, mountain goats, bighorn sheep, bears and furbearers, forest birds, amphibians and reptiles; the identification of ecosystem units, and the subsequent species inventory, habitat evaluations, suitability/capability ratings, and writing of the final reports. In addition, Claudio has also conducted site series classifications, air photo eco-typing and vegetation mapping.
Other projects have included vegetation and wildlife habitat assessments for government, local residential and commercial developments. These have included; various British Columbia Hydro environmental impact assessments; private hydro run-of-the-river power proposals; habitat assessments for mining projects in Nunavut, northern British Columbia and Alberta; wildlife assessments and monitoring for linear developments such as the Inland-Pacific Connector Pipeline, Terasen’s Coldwater III Pipeline Replacement, Pine Pass Highway Re-alignment, the Sea-to-Sky and Gateway projects; snow tracking of furbearers such as wolverine, marten, otter, and lynx, and winter range habitat surveys for mountain goats, caribou, mule deer, moose and elk.
In 2003, he participated as a field biologist surveying Killer Whales and Humpback Whales in the Gulf of Alaska.