The Wildlife Compensation Program provides financial compensation to agricultural producers for damage caused by specific wildlife species. Compensation is limited to 80% of the value of the agricultural products listed by the Crop and Animal Insurance Commission. The dataset is published by the Government of Nova Scotia and was last updated on April 17, 2026.
Use Cases
- Analyze compensation patterns for wildlife damage based on the specified agricultural products mentioned in the description.
- Model financial risk from wildlife to agricultural operations based on the program's compensation structure.
- Study the interaction between crop insurance and wildlife compensation programs based on the description of their complementary roles.
Strengths
- Compensation rules are explicitly defined, with a maximum payment limit of 80% of product value.
- Data is provided in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV, XML, and RDF.
- Published under the open OGL-CA-2.0 license.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to its origin in Nova Scotia.
Provenance
- Source
- Government of Nova Scotia
- Collection Method
- Administrative records from the Wildlife Compensation Program.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04 17 15:27:29.461594; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Nova Scotia, Canada