Southern Alberta’s forests need your help! Clearcut logging in the Castle is beginning right now, and a similar program is scheduled to begin near Bragg Creek in the summer. Now more than ever Albertans can help keep the momentum going for changes in how our forests are managed.
Below, we outline three opportunities which are coming up in the following week; opportunities for you to lend your support. Read more »
Take action TODAY to stop logging of Alberta's Castle Special Management Area, and support its permanent protection. The Castle was announced as a protected area in 1998, but the Alberta government never turned that announcement into law.
With your help, we have delayed the logging for months, but now Spray Lake Sawmills' equipment is on-site and ready to start clear-cutting. Read more »
Starting next Tuesday, the public hearings on Enbridge’s destructive tar sands pipeline comes to Edmonton and it’s important that we are there.
Don’t Tar Our Future or BC’s Coast
Rally at the Enbridge Tar Sands Pipeline Hearings
Wingate Inn (18220-100th Avenue)
Spread the word! Invite your friends to the Facebook event.
Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline is 1,170 km of potential destruction, proposed to go from just outside of Bruderheim, AB to Kitimat, BC. It would carry approximately 525,000 barrels/day of tar sands oil and 193,000 barrels/day of toxic condensate back along the same route to Alberta. The pipeline would cross the traditional and unceded territory of dozens of BC First Nations, over 1,000 streams and rivers – many of them salmon bearing – would go through the Great Bear Rainforest – the last remaining intact temperate rainforests on the planet – and would bring over 200 super-sized oil tankers through one of the narrowest and most dangerous straights in Canada. Every step on this path is a disaster waiting to happen. Each one would be tragic even before there is a spill. And each one can be prevented. Read more »
Four days on Saturday, January 14th and counting, holding back the clear-cut logging in the Castle Special Place protected area. For more info on this businesses + residents+ outdoor ethusiasts+ conservation group action: Facebook "like" Stop Castle Logging; website www.savethecastle.org; blog at www.stopcastlelogging.org and media release. Read more »
At this very moment, logging machinery is beginning to move into the Castle, in preparation for the clearcutting of 120 hectares of forest. But there is still a chance for a last minute reprieve.
Opinion polls have made it clear that Albertans are strongly opposed to the clearcut logging plans, and want to see the Castle protected. Thousands of letters and phonecalls have been made to the Premier. Please consider making a call to the Premier's office in support of the Castle. It is a game of numbers, and the more people that call, the better the chance of a positive outcome.
We are in need of christmas trees - real or not - and would love it if you could spread the word. We use christmas trees in a lot of our enclosures for the patients we have and they are great for habitat enrichment and perching. If you would like to donate a christmas tree, please clean it off of any decorations. Unfortunately we can't use trees that have lights attached to them. If you would like to donate, you can call us at 780-433-0884. Donated trees can be dropped off at our location in Spruce Grove, which is about 10-15 minutes from WEM. Thank you!
The Government of Canada says it's committed to openness and transparency, but it has yet to make information about who is breaking environmental laws, and what it's doing to prevent and punish those violations, easily accessible through an online database. Read more »
Canada’s treasured Jasper National Park could be on its way to gaining a theme park-like attraction. Brewster Travel Canada, owned by a US-based company, wants to blast out the side of the cliff beside the Icefields Parkway to build the “Glacier Discovery Walk” – a massive infrastructure “skywalk”, and charge people who wish to admire the view. Read more »
Alberta's grizzly bears are listed as a Threatened species; there are fewer than 700 left.
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Most grizzly deaths occur because there are too many people in their habitat - too many roads and trails criss-cross lands that grizzly bears need to survive.
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The Alberta government is not adhering to its own road density thresholds. In fact, the density of roads and other linear features in grizzly habitat is up to 4 times greater than thresholds set in Alberta's
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We need your voice to help protect Alberta grizzly habitat.
Right now the Canadian government is in Durban, South Africa trying to block any progress on an International response to the growing climate crisis. They are actively trying to thwart the process. Luckily, people right across Canada, joined by people all over the planet aren't going to let them.
We, the 99% know capitalism is broken and can’t fix the earth. Their solutions are killing the planet and poisoning our communities. Read more »