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Save Alberta's Grizzlies!
Action Grizzly Bear is a campaign initiated by local and international conservation voices focused on advocating the recovery of Alberta’s grizzly bear. It is a grassroots campaign designed to network people concerned about the imperiled grizzly and mobilizes them with the knowledge and tools to take action. At such a critical time for grizzly bears, taking action to recover it will be up to the public. Let the government know we want to continue to call Alberta “grizzly country” and that we want future generations to be able to do the same.
With your help, Action Grizzly Bear is calling on the Alberta Government to commit to recovery and immediately implement the five fundamentals known as the B.E.A.R.S Essentials for Recovery.
Latest Posts
A Grizzly Challenge: Ensuring a Future for Alberta's Threatened Grizzlies (pdf, 39 pp.)
2010-05-28
Addresses some important questions about the status and future of Alberta’s Threatened grizzly bear population. Although a great deal of important research about the size and structure of the grizzly bear population has recently been completed, many concerns still remain about the adequacy of the province’s efforts to provide enough protection for grizzlies and their habitat to allow recovery. Report draws from the best-available science and successful experiences in the United States. Written by Jeff Gailus and jointly published by Sierra Club Canada and six other North American, national and provincial environmental organizations.
ACTION ALERT: Great News! Grizzlies Listed as Threatened
2010-06-07
ACT NOW to instantly send a thank-you letter to Minister Mel Knight for this important step!
Grizzly Bears in Alberta can now check off the E in the B.E.A.R.S' Essentials - (endangered species listing). Thanks to the more than 1200 participants in Action Grizzly Bear and Sierra Club Canada members, including your meetings with, and letters and phone calls to the key decision makers. Alberta's Minister of Sustainable Resource Development, the Honourable Mel Knight, with the support of Cabinet's internal Resources and the Environment Policy Committee http://alberta.ca/home/250.cfm has listed Alberta's remnant grizzly bears as "Threatened" under Alberta's Wildlife Act. Details and links are in his news release at http://alberta.ca/acn/201006/28501FF40EEF0-D53C-C48F-6FF952CC62DDEF7C.html
Click here to instantly write and send your thank-you letter to Minister Knight. Click here to donate to keep the momentum going on Action Grizzly Bear or other Sierra Club Canada campaigns.
Alberta's official listing of the grizzly bears signals that the government has heard the outcry and knows it needs to act. Although with almost no legal teeth in the Wildlife Act, listing now gives the public a visible tool to hold government politically accountable for action on grizzly bear recovery and to hold industry socially responsible for their own actions in grizzly bear habitat.
Grizzly bears in Alberta are on the eastern edge of Canada's declining northwestern population of grizzlies (Alberta, B.C., N.W.T, Yukon and Nunavut), and are at the rapidly, westward receding range of the grizzly bear. Federal action is still pending on the 2002 COSEWIC recommendation for federal listing of the great bears as a Species of Special Concern under Canada's Species at Risk Act. That Act has a limited (when compared to the USA Endangered Species Act), but more robust set of legal requirements for action on recovery than Alberta's Wildlife Act.
For more information on the listing decision:
- Minister's news release & links http://alberta.ca/acn/201006/28501FF40EEF0-D53C-C48F-6FF952CC62DDEF7C.html
- Who's on the Cabinet committee that was part of the decision http://alberta.ca/home/250.cfm
Alberta Minister Commended for Key Step in Grizzly Bear Recovery
Sierra Club Canada and the more than 1200 participants in Action Grizzly Bear are commending Alberta's Sustainable Resource Development Minister, Mel Knight, and his Cabinet colleges for listing Alberta's grizzly bears as a Threatened Species under Alberta's Wildlife Act, a necessary step to recovery that was first recommended by the government's multi-stakeholder Endangered Species Conservation Committee in 2002.
Conservation groups issue province a ‘grizzly’ challenge
A report, sponsored by seven environmental groups, is calling for the Alberta government to do more to protect the province's grizzly bears.
The report, called A Grizzly Challenge: Ensuring the Future for Alberta's Threatened Grizzlies, written by Canmore's Jeff Gailus, was produced with the intention of establishing a common position and an argument presented by a coalition of invested groups: the Alberta Wilderness Association, the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Association, the David Suzuki Foundation, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club of Canada, the Wild Canada Conservation Alliance and the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative.
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http://www.canmoreleader.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2605348 All-terrain trails, wilderness roads hastening grizzly decline, report says
An extensive network of roadways and all-terrain vehicle trails carved deep into critical grizzly-bear habitat in Alberta is hastening the decline of the carnivores, whose population is already perilously close to collapse in the province.
That’s one of the conclusions of a 38-page report titled A Grizzly Challenge, which is the product of four years of research by a coalition of seven environmental groups that argue the Progressive Conservative government is not doing enough to protect the bruins.
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Government spokesman Dave Ealey said the province is moving ahead with habitat protection and controlling human access as part of its recovery efforts.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/prairies/all-terrain-trails-wildern... Campaigner Profile
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Dianne Pachal
Dianne’s life passion is wilderness and wildlife, and engaging concerned citizens. Drawing upon more than 30 years of experience in conservation advocacy and organization management, she leads our Alberta campaigns to protect wild species and spaces. Action Grizzly Bear,...
