Alberta shutterbugs urged to capture province s flora and fauna during biodiversity challenge
If you re thinking about getting into the great outdoors over the next few days, a bonus might be to participate in some citizen science while showcasing your photos as part of the BiodiverCITY Challenge.
Social Sharing We hope to send you off on a nature walk during four-day blitz that begins June 10
Posted: Jun 10, 2021 8:00 AM MT | Last Updated: June 10
An image of an American Goldfinch, snapped during the YEG BiodiverCITY Challenge in 2020.(Supplied by Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute, photo by Kim Y.)
Creating forestry jobs in northern Alberta
Alberta awarded 72,000 cubic metres of annual allowable cut to Norbord Inc. and Bigstone Cree Nation through an open, competitive process.
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Aerial view of part of Forest Management Unit G16, about 70 kilometres northwest of Grande Prairie.
Last summer, Alberta’s government opened two competitions for timber quotas in northern Alberta as part of the Forest Jobs Action Plan. These timber allocations are part of the annual allowable cut (AAC) but had not yet been issued to an operator.
Short‐term recovery actions such as predator reductions and translocations will likely just delay caribou extinction, says the paper, published in the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology. It is clear that unless the cumulative impacts of land uses are effectively addressed through planning and management . we will fail to achieve self‐sustaining woodland caribou populations.
Co-author Robert Serrouya of the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute said he and his colleagues used years of satellite data to determine how the forest on caribou habitat in B.C. and Alberta changed between 2000 and 2018.
Over that time, they found the two provinces had a net loss of at least 33,000 square kilometres of the old-growth forest that caribou need. That s about five times the size of Banff National Park.
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Threatened caribou herds in Alberta and B.C. have lost twice as much habitat as they’ve gained over the last twenty years and the pace of loss is picking up, new research says.
It concludes caribou protection measures such as shooting wolves that prey on them or penning pregnant cows for their protection won’t be enough to save the species.
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“Short?term recovery actions such as predator reductions and translocations will likely just delay caribou extinction,” says the paper, published in the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology.