Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute

• Crowsnest Pass wildlife camera-monitoring project finishes first year

  Last year, the Nature Conservancy of Canada started a wildlife camera monitoring project called Linking Landscapes. They’ve collected nearly 450,000 wildlife images so far.

  Environment

  Nov 8, 2022
  
• Alberta wildlife group embracing citizen science and using app to track trends

  An Alberta wildlife institute has seen the evolution of data collection first-hand and is now finding ways to make the most of citizen science, smartphones and community engagement.

  Environment

  Nov 1, 2018
  
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• Okotoks asks residents to help count deer using free app

  In the past, Okotoks used volunteers to walk through the town and count deer populations with a camera, clipboard and pencil, but this year, it's using a free app instead.

  Environment

  Sep 14, 2018
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• Half of Alberta’s boreal forest could disappear due to wildfires and climate change

  Half of Alberta's boreal forest could disappear in just over 80 years due to wildfires and climate change, according to a new study out of the University of Alberta.

  Science

  Mar 26, 2018
• Some of Alberta’s ecosystems shrinking faster than Amazon rain forest: report

  The study says disturbance in the foothills has gone from less than one-fifth in 1999 to 29 per cent in 2015, most from forestry. That's about a 60 per cent increase in disturbance — almost twice the rate in the Amazon over the same time span.

  Environment

  Feb 7, 2018