Part of our mission is to promote the greater appreciation of Alberta’s natural environment. Your support of our outreach programs makes this mission possible. We call it #CreatingConnection.

Over the past few years there has been an explosion of interest in citizen science, check out our newly updated page with everything you need to know to participate, and join one of these great upcoming events:
May Species Count, through May 29th, and BiodiverCity Challenge June 9-12.

Get out and contribute your nature observations to the growing collection of boots-on-the-ground data!

Squirrelling away a little every month helps us build a bigger stash, steadily growing the Nature Alberta Endowment Fund as a sustainable source of ongoing funding.

Small monthly donations are easy on your budget, but add up to a big impact! Your contributions support our education and outreach programs through every season.

The Coal Policy has been reinstated, and exploration and development across the entire region covered by the policy has been halted. This is indeed good news. But don’t break out the champagne just yet; this is a temporary reprieve.

Rather than closing the door to new coal mines in the Eastern Slopes, the government is deferring decisions about future projects to a land-use planning exercise. Moreover, four mining proposals already in review are exempted from the ban on new developments.

Over the past two decades, steady progress has been made in refining the principles of ecological forest management and putting the new ideas into practice. To be clear, this does not mean that all of the ideals set forth in the Forest Conservation Strategy have been achieved; indeed, many gaps remain. But we certainly have moved a long way from the days of sustained-yield harvesting.

Unfortunately, the progress we’ve made in advancing ecological forest management is now under threat.

Your contribution to the Nature Alberta Endowment Fund helps ensure we can continue to promote, conserve, and protect Alberta’s natural heritage for years to come, and help inspire the next generation of naturalists.