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Last Dance for Sage-grouse?

Just 13 Male Birds Remain in Alberta, as Recovery Fails

Alberta Wilderness Association
1 Sep 2011

In 2011, just thirteen male greater sage-grouse were counted in Alberta. Without emergency action to protect sage-grouse habitat, the species will die out in Alberta, and the finger of blame will be pointed squarely at provincial and federal governments which have failed to act. Read more »

Source: Alberta Wilderness Association

Posted September 1, 2011 by AEN

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Revised Draft of Lower Athabasca Regional Plan highlights Alberta’s Cavalier attitude towards environmental protection and Indigenous Rights

Sierra Club Prairie
Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation
30 Aug 2011

Edmonton — Alberta’s Government’s Department of Sustainable Resource Develop released their latest draft of the disputed Lower Athabasca Region Plan (LARP) leaving little to be desired by both environmental groups and First Nations alike. Previous draft’s had both groups unanimously agreeing that LARP left loopholes allowing for exemptions to environmental standards and led to a further degradation of constitutionally protected treaty rights. Read more »

Source: Sierra Club Prairie

Posted August 30, 2011 by AEN

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Pembina reacts to revised draft of Lower Athabasca Regional Plan

Pembina Institute
29 Aug 2011

CALGARY — Jennifer Grant, director of the Pembina Institute's oilsands program, made the following statement in response to the release today of a revised draft of the Government of Alberta's Lower Athabasca Regional Plan: Read more »

Source: Pembina Institute

Posted August 30, 2011 by AEN

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Pembina reacts to draft Woodland Caribou Recovery Strategy

Pembina Institute
26 Aug 2011

CALGARY — Simon Dyer, policy director with the Pembina Institute, made the following statement in response to the Government of Canada's release of a draft recovery strategy for woodland caribou:

"By allowing 95 per cent of woodland caribou habitat in northeastern Alberta to be lost, the Government of Canada is proposing that Canadians 'write off' virtually all the habitat that supports Alberta's caribou herds in order to promote irresponsible levels of oilsands development.

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Source: Pembina Institute

Posted August 26, 2011 by AEN

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Proposed caribou recovery strategy violates SARA

Ecojustice
26 Aug 2011

EDMONTON — The federal government’s draft woodland caribou recovery strategy — released today, four years overdue — is illegal and fails on multiple fronts to comply with requirements under the Species at Risk Act, Ecojustice said today.

“This is not a recovery plan. This is barely a survival plan,” said Melissa Gorrie, Ecojustice staff lawyer. “SARA requires that recovery plans be based in science, but this plan clearly prioritizes political and industrial interests over that of the animals it is supposed to protect.” Read more »

Source: Ecojustice

Posted August 26, 2011 by AEN

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Alberta’s Woodland Caribou in Peril

Newly-revealed Documents Show Scientists Trying to Sound the Alarm

Alberta Wilderness Association
18 Aug 2011

The plight of Alberta’s woodland caribou has become so desperate that Alberta government scientists are recommending that the species be downgraded from a threatened species to an endangered species, according to newly‐released documents. Although the province’s Scientific Subcommittee recommended the downgrading nearly a year ago, still the government is failing to act. Read more »

Source: Alberta Wilderness Association

Posted August 18, 2011 by AEN

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Alberta Caribou Protection Lost in Secret Forestry Deal

Alberta Wilderness Association
Ecojustice
17 Aug 2011

With a long overdue federal recovery strategy for Alberta’s critically threatened woodland caribou anticipated to be only weeks away, the Government of Alberta has quietly signed a new 20 year Forest Management Agreement (FMA) with Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries (Al-Pac) that closes the door on protecting caribou habitat in northeastern Alberta. The agreement seems to ignore the protection scientists say is critical for woodland caribou and other wildlife affected by forestry and oil sands industries in the FMA’s 58,000 km2 swath of north central and northeastern Alberta. Read more »

Source: Alberta Wilderness Association

Posted August 17, 2011 by AEN

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Motorized Access Levels in the Ghost Too High for Grizzlies

Ghost Watershed Alliance Society
Alberta Wilderness Association
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - Southern Alberta
Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
10 Aug 2011

 Motorized access density in southern Alberta’s Ghost Watershed is more than three times that officially recorded by the Alberta government, and more than four times the maximum recommended in the province’s Grizzly Bear Recovery Plan says a new report released August 8. Motorized access levels in bear habitat strongly correspond to high mortality rates for grizzly bears. Read more »

Source: Alberta Wilderness Association

Posted August 11, 2011 by AEN

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Federal Court overturns Minister’s decision not to recommend emergency protection for caribou

Pembina Institute
Alberta Wilderness Association
Ecojustice
29 Jul 2011

EDMONTON — The federal Environment Minister’s “out of the blue” decision not to recommend emergency protection for woodland caribou in northeastern Alberta ignored scientific evidence and must be set aside, the Federal Court said late yesterday.

Environment Minister Peter Kent must now reconsider the government’s position on emergency protections for the caribou.

The Federal Court recognized that scientific evidence indicates the caribou face threats to their survival. Read more »

Source: Ecojustice

Posted August 3, 2011 by AEN

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Conservation Volunteers: Unravelling the Wire

Nature Conservancy of Canada
Edmonton & Area Land Trust
Aug 13 2011 - 9:30am - 3:30pm

Join NCC and Edmonton and Area Land Trust as we tear-down and roll-up a woven fence inhibiting wildlife movement amongst the patchwork of wetlands in the Cooking Lake Moraine. You can help us improve the connectivity of this area all in a days work! For more information and to register for events, go to www.conservationvolunteers.ca.

Source: Conservation Volunteers

Location

Hicks Property - Cooking Lake Moraine Natural Area Tofield, AB
See map: Google Maps

Posted July 7, 2011 by AEN

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