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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute Biodiversity Browser User Survey

In 2017, the ABMI publicly released the Biodiversity Browser (BB) on its website, as a kind of "encyclopedia of life" for Alberta species. The intent of the BB has been...

Wetland Best Management Practices Knowledge Exchange Webinar Round-Up

The Wetland Best Management Practices Knowledge Exchange webinar series was started in 2017 and has hosted speakers from across Canada. Each month the series features online presentations on boreal wetland research and...

Your Forest Podcast - All About Ducks Unlimited Canada's National Boreal Program

The host of Your Forest Podcast Matthew Kristoff, invited Ducks Unlimited Canada’s National Boreal Program on January 13, 2020 in Edmonton to discuss everything there is to know about wetlands...

Screenshot of species at risk registry website, edited to show the title of the conservation agreement, and associated map in Appendix B

Woodland Caribou (Boreal population) with Cold Lake First Nations: Conservation Agreement

On December 13, 2019, a conservation agreement for woodland boreal caribou was signed with Cold Lake First Nations. The geographic area covered by the Agreement includes the Cold Lake Boreal Caribou...

Screenshot of species at risk registry website, edited to show the title of the conservation agreement. Overlain is the flag of Newfoundland and Labrador, as well as the Flag of Canada.

Bilateral Conservation Agreement for Woodland Boreal Caribou in Labrador

This month, the province of Newfoundland and Labrador and the Government of Canada announced a bilateral conservation agreement for the conservation of boreal caribou in Labrador's Lac Joseph (NL1) , Red...

InnoTech Alberta Set to Speak About Launch of CCLM Knowledge Portal

This February, attendees of the Canadian Land and Reclamation Association (CLRA) Alberta Chapter AGM and Conference will have the opportunity to hear first-hand about the diverse resources available to them...

Fort Good Hope Landscape credit Amos Scott

K’asho Got’ı̨nę and GNWT Celebrate the Establishment of Ts’udé Nilįné Tuyeta Indigenous Protected Area

November 26, 2019 (Yellowknife, NWT) Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) National Boreal Program offers a sincere congratulations to Indigenous partners, the K’asho Got’ı̨nę of the Sahtú region and the Government of...

NBCKC Secretariat Dec 2019 teleconference

NBCKC December Meeting - 2nd annual

In mid-December, the Science and Technology Branch coordinated a teleconference for nearly 40 members of the National Boreal Caribou Knowledge Consortium (NBCKC). Represented at this meeting were Indigenous communities and...

Collaboration Key to Unique Wetland Stewardship Initiative

Canada’s boreal forest is an impressive 1.3-billion-acre region spanning from the north-west border of the Yukon, all the way to Labrador, and is the largest contiguous forest landscape on Earth...

Wetland Mapping of the Akaitcho Region

A small idea, beginning with discussions and collaboration with First Nation and Metis community leaders, has become Ducks Unlimited Canada’s largest ever wetland mapping project. The Akaitcho region, located on the eastern...