AWA's 2025 Cypress Hills Bioblitz YouTube video by Alberta Wilderness Association

We hosted a bioblitz in Cypress Hills Provincial Park back in June with our partner orgs!🌱🐜🌳🐦

Check out this video to take a closer look at this unique region and its many rare and endangered species: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1zP...

If eradication of invasive wild pigs is proceeding so well, why do I keep getting this in my email in places that the province of saskatchewan swears has no pigs?

Alberta’s cleanup rules for renewable projects are onerously expensive, report says The Business Renewables Centre-Canada analyzed the cleanup requirements for renewable projects in 27 jurisdictions and found Alberta’s are most expensive

This is ludicrous. The Government of Alberta is requiring 30% up front security for renewable energy projects, meanwhile Alberta holds less than 1% of the $260 BILLION needed to cleanup oil and gas disturbance across the province. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli

Here's a map showing orphan sites across Alberta. The problem is MASSIVE & only getting worse as more companies go under. The AER says there's another $2.37 BILLION worth of liabilities held by companies in "high financial distress." Industry needs to pay what they owe for cleanup. #ABLeg #ABPoli

Coalition files appeals against Alberta Energy Regulator over orphan well clean-up costs Group of Alberta landowners, scientists and others argues the province’s watchdog hasn’t collected enough money from oil and gas companies for remediation

“Farmers & landowners across Alberta like me trusted the O&G companies to clean up these wells on our lands once they’ve stopped producing, but many energy companies have betrayed Albertans and dumped their cleanup duties onto everyone else.” #cdnpoli #ableg

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Cypress Hills Bioblitz - Citizen Day! - Alberta Wilderness Association Date: Sunday, June 8 Time: Various (see below) Location: Elkwater town site, Cypress Hills Provincial Park The Cypress Hills hold national environmental significance due to their high cultural valu...

Cypress Hills Bioblitz – Citizen Day!
Sunday, June 8
#bioblitz #Alberta
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Environmental groups publish report on how logging proposal could wipe out two caribou herds in Alberta "This is a Canadian icon, and we're actively wiping them out, and I think that should just be a big disappointment to all Canadians and to Albertans. It's embarrassing."

LOCAL NEWS: Environmental groups publish report on how logging proposal could wipe out two caribou herds in Alberta

Op-ed: Unsustainable logging practices and unfair trade arguments threaten Alberta's caribou herds "The dilemma posed by Weyerhaeuser’s logging proposal underscores a deeper issue within the trade and environmental policies. The need for transparent, fair, and ecologically responsible practices is paramount."

LOCAL NEWS: Op-ed: Unsustainable logging practices and unfair trade arguments threaten Alberta's caribou herds

Logging irony: Unsustainable logging practices, unfair trade arguments threaten Alberta caribou The UCP government's draft plan to intensify forestry efforts threatens Upper Smoky Caribou populations

OP-ED: Irony is one of Alberta’s most sustainable products. A current example is provided by the Weyerhaeuser Company, an American timber giant, which is proposing to clear-cut log the remaining core forested winter range of two Alberta caribou herds.

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@youralberta.bsky.social knows this plan will drive the Redrock-Prairie Creek and Narraway caribou herds to extinction. Their own data shows it. Our report brakes down how this plan fails to protect caribou.

This week, AB held the 1st public session re:draft Upper Smoky SRP. This plan was supposed to protect caribou. But, we heard from staff that the goal is economic development with NO INTEREST in what happens to caribou.
This government will be responsible for the extirpation of 2 caribou herds in AB

Caribou herds will be destroyed under Alberta government draft plan, say conservation groups According to these groups, the draft plan allows Weyerhaeuser to clearcut the remaining critical winter habitat and eliminate the ability of these caribou to annually migrate to the foothill’s forests.

LOCAL NEWS: Caribou herds will be destroyed under Alberta government draft plan, say conservation groups

Go vote!

We weren’t expecting much from the #UpperSmoky draft and Gov of Alberta still disappointed us deeply.
This plan was supposed to be about #caribou recovery and it turned out to be a plan for extinction

Some great Instagram slides from @commonhorizoncommun.org highlighting some of the major problems/risks with Alberta's draft Mature Asset Strategy for cleaning up oil and gas wells (with taxpayer money). #ABleg #ABPoli #CDNPoli

📢Reminder: The job posting is open until Sunday!

Cleanup costs for conventional oil & gas "liabilities" in AB may exceed $100 billion. Our schools, hospitals & other public services are consistently underfunded, yet the govt plans to use taxpayer money to let companies off the hook for cleanup. This is corporate welfare. #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli

Wild Lands Advocate By Alberta Wilderness Association. Birds and the Beetles: Pollinators are not just bees, and their decline or loss signals a hurting ecosystem. Albertawilderness.ca

📢Let's talk #pollinators - it's important to remember that they are more than just bumble bees, and their decline or loss signals a hurting ecosystem. Read about it in our newly published #Spring Wild Lands Advocate!

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#conservation 🌎

Please, please, pleaseeee do not eat meat from #CWD positive deer 😞

Help us tell the AB government that we do not want “harvest preserves” in the province!
One of our biggest concerns is the spread of #ChronicWastingDisease, a fatal disease in cervids 🦌 , everywhere in the province!

Send your letter 👇

We're hiring! Visit the link for more info:

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#calgaryjobs

#Conservation easements are a great success story for Alberta — they've permanently conserved ~400,000 acres of ecologically-valuable land. But lately, the idea of them seems to cause anxiety.

Join us March 25 ONLINE or in person as Guy Greenaway discusses this dynamic.

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