November 14, 2024
Trapped Still
Fish entered the canals simply because there was nothing to prevent them from doing so….
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November 12, 2024
Send a Letter: The Trapping Limits for Vulnerable Furbearing Animals Must be Reinstated!
Alberta Minister of Forestry and Parks Todd Loewen has quietly removed yet another restriction meant…
November 11, 2024
Bully for the Blackbirds: Inspiration From Nature
There is a lesson here, for us little people fighting conservation battles. By Lorne Fitch…
November 7, 2024
Minister response to AWA concerns on hunting “problem” grizzly bears
In response to Alberta Wilderness Association’s letter expressing our concerns with allowing hunting of “problem”…
November 7, 2024
Legal Battles, Lost Opportunities, and the Long Road to Species Protection
Like most problems associated with the SARA, this is rooted in issues of jurisdiction between…
November 6, 2024
AWA Statement: Unacceptable Removal of Trapping Limits on Furbearing Animals
Alberta Minister of Forestry and Parks Todd Loewen has quietly removed yet another restriction that…
October 18, 2024
Alberta’s Nature Summit: Implications for a made-in-Alberta Nature Strategy
As part of their public engagement on a made-in-Alberta Nature Strategy, Alberta hosted a one-day…
September 18, 2024
Adventure for Wilderness – Bats in the Weaselhead, August 21, 2024
Text and photos by Christin Spatz and Lindsey Wallis When thinking about bats, we often…
August 26, 2024
AWA supports Ecojustice’s request to designate the Vista Mine expansion under the Impact Assessment Act
On August 26, 2024, AWA sent the Minister of Environment and Climate Change a letter…
August 22, 2024
AWA input for Alberta’s draft Little Brown Myotis and Northern Myotis Bat Recovery Plan
On August 22, 2024, AWA provided input on the draft Little Brown Myotis and Northern…
August 21, 2024
AWA letter to Minister Loewen on the hunting of Grizzly Bears
AWA wrote to Minister Todd Loewen (Forestry and Parks) expressing our concerns with opening “problem”…
August 2, 2024
Of Tree Rings and Tea Leaves: What the Trees Have Told Us
It might not be common knowledge in today’s world, but these old trees can talk….