My name is Jeff Marley and I’m the founder and owner of Margo Supplies. Working on my wife’s family orchard, I quickly learned how wildlife damage can impact total yields. I began experimenting with pyrotechnic scare cartridges and developed my own techniques to reduce damage in our fields back in the late 1970s. Using this experience, I began to develop my own techniques to reduce the incidents of wildlife in our fields.
Developing these products became a passion of mine. After moving to Alberta, I started expanding my product offerings, sold units to neighbouring farms, then began working with government agencies and other industries. Margo Supplies was born in 1980.
Behaviour-Based Solutions
Throughout my career in wildlife management, I’ve learned the importance of working with and taking advantage of natural animal behaviour. By creating a “landscape of fear,” we can deter animals from entering control areas and create lasting changes in the local environment – your control area. Our goal is to get the target animals to associate your control area with negative stimuli, reducing their determination to enter the area.
Behavioural solutions are often the best way to ensure that an animal doesn’t simply replace another in the future. We want to create a lasting impact in the target area. Whether you have issues with birds eating your fruit or bears invading your camps and parks, if you convince them it’s unsafe, they will learn.
Non-Lethal
We are manufacturers and users of our products. We prefer to use simple, yet effective tools that don’t get in the way of your home or operation. And because they’re effective, you likely will incur fewer costs with generate better results.
Practical Solutions
Sucessful human-widlife co-existance requires pracitcal products that work and are affordable. People need to be able to count on your work when they need it. It needs to be available and easy to ship, as well as service remotely. We take a great deal of care providing only the solutions we can count on to work.
Systems-Based Approach
I’m in this business because I love the outdoors. I believe it’s important to give back to support wildlife conservation efforts. We donate our time, products and services as well as financial support to the conservation of black, grizzly and polar bears in western North America and the High Arctic.
Conservation
We take a systems-based approach to resolving wildlife conflict issues. This means by using our tools and techniques, we’ll help you create a comprehensive strategy that will keep unwanted wildlife away from the control area. Our systems and philosophy are implemented on our site and used by many of our industry partners. We extensively research and test each system and product.
Learn how our Liard River Hotsprings project helps conserve bears.
MargoTV
Our products are used across the world in interesting, challenging, conservation scenarios. Now you can follow us around as we help solve human-wildlife conflict, test our products, and explore our wild planet. Follow Jeff Marley, Jared, Conrad, and our staff from Polar Bear fencing in Churchill to wrangling cows for tracking collar tests. Follow us along here
We do good work. We have made meaningful impacts to conservation across the world. Providing practical solutions allows people to live with wildlife. One of my passions is developing electric bear fence solutions that professionally exclude bears including grizzly and polar bears from human attractants. I have personally built hundreds of electric fences from the coastal pacific to the high arctic.
– Jeff Marley
