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Environment and Protected Areas has published updates to three datasets on oil sands mine reclamation.  These datasets now include information to the end of 2025.

The datasets are as follows...

ABMI has published the following updated field protocols: 
•    Wetland field data collection protocols (2024)
•    Terrestrial field protocols, abridged (2024)
•    ABMI terrestrial Autonomous Recording Unit (ARU) and remote camera trap protocols...

More lichen species profiles have been added to the Biodiversity Browser. These profiles were researched and written by students in the University of Alberta Lichenology course taught by Dr. Diane...

The Human Footprint Inventory (HFI) is a public dataset that maps visible disturbances from human activity across the entire province of Alberta. The dataset is updated annually using a combination...

Alberta Environment and Protected Areas (EPA) has published the update to the Conservation and Reclamation Directive for Renewable Energy Operations, released August 4, 2026.

The Conservation and Reclamation Directive for...

Environmentalists are divided on whether a new funding deal reached between Quebec and the federal government is a meaningful first step to saving the province's dwindling caribou herds or a...

Wildlife conservation group calls for 3rd-party audit of the predator reduction program. Read more here: B.C. considers extending wolf cull again to conserve threatened caribou | CBC News

With the retirement of the Government of Alberta’s Environmental Site Assessment Repository (ESAR), contamination management records previously available through ESAR are now available from the Alberta Energy Regulator’s Products and...

Foundations of Restoration Ecology course. Designed for restoration practitioners worldwide, this online program builds the scientific foundation for effective, standards-based ecological restoration. Course content is free through SER Learn and...