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The ACA’s Corporate Partners in Conservation Program is a unique program that allows corporate donors to play a part in protecting Alberta’s natural heritage. It encourages long-term partnerships for a minimum of five years and has the added benefit of providing employees with an opportunity to be directly involved. Getting staff involved – whether it be planting trees, installing or removing fencing or conducting wildlife surveys – makes them feel like they are personally making a difference.
How companies can get involved
The first is through the Habitat Securement, Enhancement and Management Fund, which allows corporations to purchase and manage lands for conservation. ACA staff and a partnership team from the corporate donor work together to identify geographic areas to focus on and ACA staff identify specific parcels and manage the land purchase itself. These land purchases can be used as conservation offsets for impacts related to a wide range of industrial developments.
The second way corporations can get involved is through the Special Project Support Fund, which allows corporate donors to fund specific projects. Examples might include funding a lake aeration program to improve fish survival over the winter or funding a specific fishery or wildlife study. The corporation’s name becomes associated directly with the sponsored project and, where appropriate, the name and logo of the company is placed on signage located at access points associated with the project.
Whichever type of involvement is most appropriate; it has the advantage of linking your corporation with a conservation organization that has a 10-year history of undertaking high-quality, high-profile conservation throughout Alberta – for the benefit of all Albertans.
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