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February 3, 2012
AWA News Release: Beyond Monitoring – Responsible Management Needed for Oilsands Wildlife and Wetlands Impacts
Today, forty five years after the first tar sands mines started, the federal government has…
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• Caribou
• Oil Sands
February 3, 2012
COSEWIC Recommends Emergency Order to List Three Bat Species as Endangered
News release from COSEWIC (Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada) that their…
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• Species at Risk
• Wildlife
February 1, 2012
Scientific Comment on Draft Caribou Recovery Strategy
The February 2012 submission by Scientific Advisors to the Boreal Caribou Science Management Committee of…
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• Caribou
• Species at Risk
January 31, 2012
Southern Mountain Caribou Conservation Strategy
AWA ‘s letter to Parks Canada commenting on the proposed Conservation Strategy for Southern Mountain…
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• Caribou
• National Parks
• Species at Risk
January 25, 2012
ENGO News Release: Will Alison Redford’s Clearcuts Crush Bear Cubs in their Dens?
Joint news release from WildCanada Conservation Alliance, Castle Crown Wilderness Coalition and AWA. Conservationists today…
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• Castle
• Grizzly Bears
• Rocky Mountain and Foothills Forests
January 1, 2012
Canada’s woodland caribou: industrial disturbances in their ranges and implications for their survival
Report by Global Forest Watch Canada. Finds that for the eight boreal woodland caribou populations…
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• Caribou
• Oil Sands
November 30, 2011
AWA Wilderness & Wildlife Defenders: Too Many Roads in Alberta Grizzly Habitat
This past September, Alberta Wilderness Association, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation…
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• Action Alerts
• Grizzly Bears
November 25, 2011
AWA News Release: Habitat focus needed for Alberta’s caribou
Parks Canada’s newly-announced Southern Mountain Caribou Conservation Strategy, including a captive breeding and reintroduction program,…
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• Caribou
• National Parks
• Species at Risk
November 10, 2011
Letter: Protect Caw Ridge from Coal Development
This letter from the AWA to the Minister of Energy and the Minister of Sustainable…
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• Coal
• Energy
• Kakwa
• Wildlife
November 4, 2011
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. “Who should take…
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• Sage-grouse
October 31, 2011
Alberta Woodland Caribou – Proposed Federal Recovery Strategy Declares War on Wolves, Lets Habitat Degradation Continue
Wild Lands Advocate article, October 2011, by Carolyn Campbell. “A long overdue proposed federal woodland…
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• Caribou
• Species at Risk
• WLA Archive
• Wolves
October 19, 2011
Wolf Bounty FOIP
Certain municipalities in Alberta pay a “bounty” for wolves killed within their borders, despite the…
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• Wolves