Wildlife
Through ACA’s Wildlife Program, we work to enhance wildlife and their habitat. The partner-driven program’s projects include teaming up with ranches and farms to trial different approaches that balance wildlife habitat with working operations, working with volunteers who provide location sightings of snakes and amphibians, and partnering with stakeholders to restore water quality by improving wildlife habitat along the shores of waterbodies.
Our experience has shown us that we accomplish most of what we do because of our partners. Our wolverine and furbearer study initiatives would not work without vital input from Alberta’s trappers and the MULTISAR project is successful in large part due to buy-in from the ranching community. ACA’s partnerships make the majority of our wildlife work possible.
Featured Projects
2019/20 Projects
Please see the projects we are currently working on in our Annual Operating Plan.
- ACA/4-H Pheasant Raise and Release Program
- Alberta Wildlife Status Reports
- Alberta Volunteer Amphibian Monitoring Program (AVAMP)
- Connectivity Project
- Amphibian Monitoring Using Environmental DNA
- Enchant Project – Strong Farmlands. Thriving Habitat.
- Working with Alberta's Trappers to Monitor Furbearer Population Trends
- Habitat Legacy Partnership
- MULTISAR – Milk River
- MULTISAR – South Saskatchewan
- MULTISAR – Taber
- MULTISAR – West
- Pheasant Release Program
- Piping Plover Recovery Program
- Pronghorn Fence Crossing Enhancement
- Pronghorn as a Grassland Indicator
- Pronghorn Movement and Enhancement (Fence Trials)
- Pronghorn Road Crossing Enhancement (Pronghorn Xing)
- Ridge Reservoir Habitat Project