Sage Grouse Archive
2012-05-10 The Broader View: AWA’s 2012 Priorities
Wild Lands Advocate article, April 2012, by Sean Nichols highlights the first two of ten priorities AWA has identified to guide our conservation efforts in 2012. Woodland caribou and greater sage-grouse are the first two priorities to be described.
2012-05-03 AWA News Release: Sage-Grouse Reintroduction: More Habitat Protection Needed
Reports in yesterday’s news media reveal details on a program to import sage-grouse from Montana to Alberta. While this reintroduction shows overdue recognition by the Alberta government of the dire situation of one of Canada’s most endangered species, and is likely necessary, Alberta Wilderness Association is concerned. Alberta Sustainable Resource Development’s Fish and Wildlife branch still have not fixed the underlying problem of habitat degradation and lack of protection for all the critical habitat that these endangered birds require.
2012-02-14 ENGO News Release: Conservation groups take Environment Minister to court over endangered Sage-grouse
Conservation groups are taking Environment Minister Peter Kent to federal court over his continued failure to protect Canada’s endangered Greater Sage-grouse and fulfill his duties under the Species at Risk Act (SARA).
2012-01-25 Looking at Alberta: What Do the Sage-grouse See?
Wild Lands Advocate article, December 2011, by Sean Nichols, describing a visit to some of the last remaining "critical habitat" for sage-grouse in Alberta.
2012-01-18 AWA Wilderness & Wildlife Defenders: Federal Minister Fails to Protect Sage-Grouse
The deadline (January 16, 2012) has now passed for Environment Minister Peter Kent to respond to our November petition, demanding that the federal government take the necessary steps to prevent the extirpation of the greater sage-grouse from Canada.
2011-12-06 Survey Says: Albertans Extremely Concerned Sage-grouse May Soon Disappear
In response to a poll featured in the Medicine Hat News on December 2, 2011, 89.8% of all respondents said they were extremely concerned that sage-grouse may disappear from Alberta, as scientists predict.
2011-11-24 AWA Wilderness & Wildlife Defenders: Last chance for Canada's most endangered species?
In a last ditch effort to keep sage-grouse in Canada, AWA and 11 other environmental groups are calling upon federal Environment Minister Peter Kent to stand up for the species he's legally bound to protect, before it's too late!
2011-11-24 AWA News Release: Last chance to save Canada's most endangered species?
Alberta Wilderness Association (AWA) and a coalition of environmental groups are calling on federal Environment Minister Peter Kent to urgently take the steps necessary to prevent the imminent extinction of the greater sage-grouse in Canada.
2011-11-23 Save our Sage-grouse: Petition to Environment Minister Peter Kent
Today Ecojustice, on behalf of AWA and eleven other ENGOs submitted a legal petition to federal Environment Minister Peter Kent, demanding an emergency protection order to prevent the imminent extinction of the Greater sage-grouse.
2011-11-23 ENGO News Release: Federal government must prevent extinction of sage-grouse in Canada
An international coalition of environmental groups is calling on the federal environment minister to take Canada’s endangered Greater sage-grouse under his wing with an emergency protection order.
2011-11-04 Sage-grouse on the Brink: How Governments have Failed Alberta’s Most Endangered Species
Wild Lands Advocate article, October 2011, by Nigel Douglas and Madeline Wilson
2011-10-04 AWA News Release: AWA Welcomes Premier-Designate Redford’s Promise to Protect Alberta’s Endangered Wildlife
Alberta Premier-designate Alison Redford committed during her campaign to suspend the public land sale known as “Potatogate” that would see 16,000 acres of native prairie converted to intensive irrigated agricultural use. She also made other important environmental commitments.
2011-10-00 AWA Hosts Emergency Sage-Grouse Summit
Wild Lands Advocate update, October 2011, by Madeline Wilson
2011-09-10 AWA News Release: Save our Sage-Grouse! Billboards Call for Help
Late this past week billboards across Calgary and Edmonton began flashing a public service announcement about the plight of greater sage-grouse in Alberta. On the heels of a very successful two-day Emergency Greater Sage-grouse Summit the bill boards are an attempt to answer the void of information and awareness available about how serious things really are.
2011-09-09 Sage-Grouse: AWA Letter to Politicans
AWA letter to federal and provincial politicians calling for urgent action to save the sage-grouse before it is too late. The letter includes as an attachment the Communique from the Emergency Sage-Grouse Summit, September 7 and 8.
2011-09-09 AWA Wilderness & Wildlife Defenders: Save Our Sage-Grouse!
The greater sage-grouse has been called Alberta's most endangered species. In 2011, just 13 male birds were recorded in Alberta, a 98 percent decline since 1968. The plight of the sage-grouse is desperate, and these spectacular birds need all the help they can get if they are going to survive in Alberta.
2011-09-08 Emergency Sage-Grouse Summit, Final Communique
Final recommendations from the Emergency Sage-Grouse Summit, hosted by AWA in Calgary, September 7 and 8, 2011. The Emergency Sage-Grouse Summit consisted of leading international scientists, local landowners and environmental organizations working to ensure that the spectacular greater sage-grouse remains on the landscape.
2011-09-08 AWA News Release: Save our Sage-Grouse! Recommendations from Emergency Sage-Grouse Summit
Desperate measures are needed if Canada’s most endangered wildlife species, the greater sage-grouse, is to be saved from extinction in Canada. This is the overwhelming conclusion coming from the Emergency Sage-Grouse Summit, held in Calgary, Alberta September 7-8, 2011.
2011-09-07 AWA Media Advisory 2: Emergency Sage-grouse Summit
Media Briefing 2: Emergency Sage-Grouse Summit - Recommendations to Save Alberta’s “Most Endangered Species”
2011-09-06 AWA Media Advisory 1: Emergency Sage-grouse Summit
Media Briefing 1: Emergency Sage‐Grouse Summit - Last Ditch effort to Save Alberta’s “Most Endangered Species”
