Action Alerts
2013-05-24 AWA Wilderness & Wildlife Defenders: Thanks and Next Steps Needed for Little Smoky Caribou
You have made a difference! In early May, the Alberta government deferred new mineral rights sales in the Little Smoky and A La Peche caribou ranges north of Jasper Park! Please take a minute to thank Ministers McQueen and Hughes and press them for the next on-the-ground habitat steps needed for these caribou to survive.
2013-04-24 AWA Wilderness & Wildlife Defenders: OHV Access and the SSRP
With the South Saskatchewan Regional Plan (SSRP) draft being due out sometime later this year, we ask you to take a few minutes out of your day to let the government know how much you value Alberta's wildlands, wild life and wild waters. Please help provide an alternative to those voices clamouring for motorized recreation in our forests and headwaters.
2013-03-28 AWA Wilderness & Wildlife Defenders: Alberta's Wolf Bounty
Decisions on Alberta’s wolf population are now being made by local authorities, and by hunting groups with funding from foreign special interest groups. And the Alberta government seems unwilling, or unable, to do anything to intervene.
2013-02-06 AWA Wilderness & Wildlife Defenders: Request AB Energy Minister Defer New Leases in Threatened Little Smoky Caribou Range
In violation of Alberta’s 2011 woodland caribou policy that places an immediate priority on maintaining caribou habitat, Alberta Energy plans auctions of new oil and gas leases within the Little Smoky caribou range in west central Alberta on February 7, March 7 and April 25, 2013. Please take a moment to write Energy Minister Ken Hughes to request these lease sales be deferred until habitat can be restored for the Little Smoky caribou population, which is at imminent risk of local extinction.
2013-01-02 AWA Wilderness & Wildlife Defenders: Mt. Norquay Proposal to Break Banff Park Wildlife Assurances
The federal government is seeking public comments until January 4 on a proposed plan to allow summer chair lift operations and tourism into what is now secure grizzly habitat in Banff National Park. We hope you will take a moment to ask decision makers to protect Banff Park wildlife and keep this important summer wildlife habitat secure, as was promised as part of a previous expansion of the ski hill’s footprint.
2012-11-24 AWA Wilderness & Wildlife Defenders: Wild prairie grasslands or gas wells and pipelines?
As we reflect on 2012 and AWA's 2012 conservation priorities and progress, we will be providing updates on issues of concern. For four years, we've been keeping you up-to-date on Suffield National Wildlife Area and this very question: What will it be, wild prairie grasslands or 1,275 new Cenovus gas wells and 220 kilometres of new pipelines? Well, we still don't know and we hope that with help from you, letters to federal Minister of the Environment Peter Kent will help remind him just how important this area is to native biodiversity and the protection of this significant region in Alberta.
2012-09-07 AWA Wilderness & Wildlife Defenders: National Parks Need Protection
On Friday September 7, 2012 the Jasper Environmental Association is inviting friends of the National Parks to start gathering at noon to peacefully protest federal government decisions that compromise the natural character of our National Parks system. Click through to the article for details about this event.
2012-06-04 AWA Wilderness & Wildlife Defenders: Speak Out in Defence of Nature and Democracy
In the April 26, 2012 proposed budget our current federal government bundled an assortment of non-budgetary changes that, among many things, serve to substantially weaken Canadian environmental laws. The proposed changes will only be reviewed by the federal budget committee. We all need to let our representatives know that bundling non-budgetary changes into a budget, and the substantial weakening of Canada’s environmental laws, is not acceptable. Visit http://www.blackoutspeakout.ca/index.php to learn more about how important voices across Canada are being silenced, and what you can do to speak out.
