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In partnership with various funders and collaborators, the ABMI has been collecting LiDAR data since 2022.  During 2024, some of these data—covering approximately 5,600 square kilometres of Alberta—will be made...

Presented by the British Columbia Technical and Research Committee on Reclamation, the 2024 Symposium will be located in Burnaby, BC and feature a short course, field tour, two full days...

Ottawa will not resume negotiations with Quebec on species at risk until the strategy for protecting the habitat of woodland and mountain caribou is tabled. Federal Minister Steven Guilbeault "strongly...

Manitoba’s efforts to champion its critical mineral sector may be putting one of the province’s most iconic species — the boreal woodland caribou — at risk.

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The 50,000-square-kilometre Seal River watershed in northern Manitoba is one of the largest ecologically intact watersheds in the world. Teeming with biodiversity, its conservation value is almost without parallel. Located...

An Alberta government document suggests the province has made little progress in protecting its 15 threatened caribou herds, despite having signed an agreement with Ottawa that promised it would.

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The pristine 50,000-square-kilometre Seal River Watershed region would be the province’s first federally recognized Indigenous protected area. 

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Canada is home to the largest boreal forest in the world, a vast expanse of wilderness rich in biodiversity that stretches from coast to coast. But a major new study...

The Biodiversity Browser is the place to go to find all of the data and information we have compiled for the wide variety of species that the ABMI monitors. More...

Alberta Environment and Protected Areas (EPA) has updated the Contaminated Sites Policy Framework.

The updated document can be viewed here.

This revision includes updates to reflect newer policy guidelines...