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Dedicated to the conservation of wilderness and the completion of a protected areas network, Alberta Wilderness Association is a voice for the environment. Since 1965, AWA has inspired communities to care for Alberta’s wild spaces through awareness and action. With a provincial office and library in Calgary, AWA has active members, volunteers, and sponsors throughout Alberta and beyond. AWA is a non-profit, federally registered, charitable society.

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Recently Approved Alberta Solar Project Will Threaten World’s Second Fastest Land Mammal

The Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) issued its decision on the Aira Solar Project located south…

The thing we have to tell you is what you always knew (free-roaming bison are wildlife)

Here’s how to write your own letter to government to ask that free-roaming bison are redesignated as wildlife (not livestock. As well, join our annual crocus hunt adventure; enter our photo contest; come to our film festival and we have the latest count on sage-grouse.

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April 6, 2024
Adventure for Wilderness – Nose Hill Crocus Hunt and Geology Tour

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April 7, 2024
Nature Photography Contest! Deadline: April 7

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April 16, 2024
DRIED UP, WHAT NOW?: An Oldman River Documentary Screening

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When citizens and their representatives in government fail to place a high value on wilderness as a resource in itself, then its disappearance – especially in reasonably accessible locations – is swift and certain.
- Bruce M. Litteljohn and Douglas H. Pimlott, “Why Wilderness?”, 1971
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