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Grizzlies Need You Now to Protect Their Park Homes

Just Days to Act

The Alberta Government is set to pass laws in a matter of days; dismantling protection of all parks, including more than 23,000 sq km critical for grizzly bear habitat and currently protected in Wilderness Areas, Wildland Parks and Ecological Reserves.

  1. SEND A LETTER TODAY just click under Take Action, then read, write & click to send from the Action Grizzly Bear action page. http://www.sierraclub.ca/en/action-grizzly-bear
  2. On Facebook?  See Save Alberta’s Parks Now!  "Like" that page & suggest to friends to Save Alberta's Parks from new laws to dismantle them!
  3. If in Edmonton, Monday, Nov. 15, be at the Legislature.  Back up Friday's press coverage by being present & introduced during Question Period as opposed, 1:30 pm Or attend in evening 8:00 onward for debate. Book seat ahead with Official Opposition Andrew.Fisher@assembly.ab.ca

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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.

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ACTION ALERT: This is our chance to protect Alberta’s grizzly bear.

2010-03-23

Click here to instantly write and send a letter to Minister Knight and Premier Stelmach

If you live in Alberta, click here to find your MLA and their contact information

For the second time in a row, Alberta’s Endangered Species Conservation Committee, a multi-stakeholder committee representing government, First Nations, industry, forestry, academia, ranchers, hunters and conservationists, has recommended that Alberta’s Grizzly Bear be listed as a Threatened species under the Wildlife Act.

It is now up to Sustainable Resource Development Minister Mel Knight to decide if the grizzly bear will be given the legal protection it needs. ... Read more »

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Action Alert: Alberta's Threatened Grizzly Bear Needs Protection NOW!

2010-02-23

Letters can be written and sent directly from the Action Grizzly Bear website. Click here to send your letter now!

Alberta’s grizzly bear is a threatened species that needs special protection.  In 2002, Alberta’s Endangered Species Conservation Committee (ESCC), representing scientists, universities, First Nations, industries, hunters, conservationists and ranchers, recommended that the grizzly bear be listed as a Threatened species under Alberta’s Wildlife Act. Unfortunately, the government so far has failed to implement this recommendation and Alberta’s grizzlies continue to suffer from a wide array of threats.

Rather than taking action to protect bears, the province has embarked on a further status review and, eight years later, it will ask the ESCC once again to re-examine whether the grizzly bear should be listed as a protected species. Barring any government delays, we expect the status review to be complete in a few weeks time.


Once the status review is complete it will be up to Mel Knight, the newly appointed Minister of Sustainable Resource Development, to decide if the grizzly bear will be listed as Threatened and given legal protection. Help Minister Knight make the right decision!

In the eight years since the original recommendation to protect the bears under the Wildlife Act, grizzly habitat has continued to be lost or damaged due to industrial and residential development and motorized backcountry access.  At roughly 600 bears, Alberta’s grizzly population remains far below provincially and internationally recognized thresholds. The IUCN, an international organization of government and non-government members with expertise in endangered species recovery, identifies 1000 adults (which generally means 2000 animals in total) as a healthy population, beneath which a threatened or endangered listing is necessary.
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