🇲🇽 PhD candidate @UCalgary @steigj | Impacts of human activities on lemur diversity | #arborealcameratrapping | Conservation Specialist @ABWilderness
Calgary, Alberta
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A few weeks ago I gave an interview on seismic line restoration and caribou. You can read it here 👇
Province plugs predator pathways through seismic line tree planting ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/p…
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🚨NEWS: The CEO of Alberta energy regulator CEO cancelled the public hearing for a proposed coal project in the Eastern Slopes at the request of coal company Summit Coal Inc.
This action is unprecedented and removes transparency.
albertawilderness.ca/joint-n…
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The CEO, a former oil and gas executive, took the reins of the AER in February. His appointment drew the skepticism of many AER critics, who believe that the regulator puts the interests of the energy sector above those of Albertans and the environment.
theglobeandmail.com/business…
🚨NEWS: The CEO of Alberta energy regulator CEO cancelled the public hearing for a proposed coal project in the Eastern Slopes at the request of coal company Summit Coal Inc.
This action is unprecedented and removes transparency.
albertawilderness.ca/joint-n…
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🪨This Sunday: Discover a huge variety of extraordinary, fossilized creatures in the walls of inner-city Calgary buildings!
These fossilized creatures, found in 450 million-year-old rocks, are examples of early life forms.
Sign up: albertawilderness.ca/product…
@Adventures4Wild #yyc
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When oil and gas companies are unable, or unwilling, to pay their land rent, the provincial government will pay it for them. More than 99% of the time, the government never gets its money back thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oil-an…
We weren’t expecting much from the #UpperSmoky draft and Gov of Alberta still disappointed us deeply.
This plan was supposed to be about #caribou recovery and it turned out to be a plan for extinction
Two at-risk caribou herds could be lost forever under the #Alberta government's new draft plan for the Upper Smoky area. If approved a U.S. company can log their winter ranges, which could lead to their extinction.
Read our joint release:
shorturl.at/T2Iem
#abpoli
The creation of #HarvestPreserves will facilitate the spread of #CWD around the province. Very concerning for the already struggling caribou populations!
𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗪𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗹𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮 🦌🧠
In some areas, up to 85% of mule deer are now infected. Researchers, including #UAlberta’s Debbie McKenzie, are racing to slow its spread. Can we stop it before it reaches caribou—or humans?
🔗 Read more: bit.ly/3X3K0jR
#UAlberta
#WildlifeResearch
#ChronicWastingDisease
#PrionDiseases
ALT Close-up of a mule deer facing the camera with a blurred green background.
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🆕A report by 5 former Fish&Wildlife biologists found that no part of the Eastern Slopes can safely, effectively & environmentally accommodate coal mining.
The 2021 report for the Coal Policy Committee was largely inaccessible. Now it's on our website:
tinyurl.com/mv3pk7db
When they say that they’re doing things for Albertans, it seems like the population of Alberta is 14 and they all have millions of dollars…
@BrianJeanAB
Minister @BrianJeanAB issued a new ministerial order rescinding the pause on all new #coal exploration and development in the Eastern Slopes #AbPoli #AbLeg aer.ca/about-aer/media-centr…
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Here's what NO to coal looks like from Calgary. Pt. 2 of the Alberta Energy Regulator public hearings for the proposed Grassy Mountain coal project are on right now. AWA spoke at Pt. 1 of the hearings in December.
Our statement:
albertawilderness.ca/northba…
If you’re interested in the latest update of #wolverines in #Alberta, go check out @JasonTFisherLab ‘s update on wolverine population data and @kentomologie ‘s thread 🌲
@ABForestryParks Minister stated that lifting trapping limits on species like #wolverines was necessary to update population data. However, recently published research provides estimates w/o trapping, & was notably "supported by the Government of Alberta" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Caribou herds need at least 65% of their range to be undisturbed to have a shot at survival. Currently, 6 of AB’s caribou ranges have less than 10% undisturbed habitat remaining, and some – like the Little Smoky Herd – have <1% remaining‼️ - @PhillipMeintzer @ABWilderness
❗An Alberta logging group wants to change laws protecting at-risk species so it can log old-growth forests.
AWA's @PhillipMeintzer explains why that would devastate the declining caribou populations.
Does the forest industry truly #loveABforests ?
fitzhugh.ca/opinion/column-f…
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A completely nonsensical, hypocritical, and baffling decision to allow thermal coal mining to expand its footprint in Canada, while also saying you're committed to ending its export in the next 5 years @s_guilbeault @iaac_aeic
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✨Our Christmas Market is THIS Saturday, Dec. 7! We'll be serving coffee courtesy of @highergcafe and we'll have goodies from Bowness Soapworks, which is donating 50% of proceeds to AWA!
Come drop by! 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
“This is a change that encourages hunting of a species that is isolated, has declined, and is maybe just starting to recover, but there’s no evidence that we need a hunt or that this will in any way manage the population,” Ruiping Luo, a conservation specialist @ABWilderness
NEW: Alberta has quietly opened cougar hunting in a provincial park.
It's the latest in a slew of changes to hunting rules from Alberta Parks and Forestry Minister Todd Loewen, who is a hunter and whose family owns a hunting business.
thenarwhal.ca/alberta-cougar…
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The Alberta government has removed furbearer trapping limits for the 2024-25 season in most zones, including for AT-RISK wolverines
rmoutlook.com/canmore/albert…
Congratulations Kuenzang! 🥳🥳🥳
Congratulations to the third #WhitleyAward winner of the night: KUENZANG DORJI! @rspn_bhutan
🇧🇹 Bhutan
🐒 Golden langurs
🏆 #WhitleyAward donated by Anne Reece
Find out more about his project here: ow.ly/KypU50Ri0bs
#SharedFuture
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Finally out! We examined whether mouse #lemur species exhibit varying density responses to #edge #effects across fragmented landscapes. Our results demonstrate that differences in density patterns can be attributed to species-specific traits and the scale of analysis.
Do #edge #effects vary in closely related mouse #lemur species? This is the question @91Fernandom3 and the Lehman Lab from @utoronto asked in the 10th paper from @AMelinLab and my special issue of @AmJournalPrimat on #primatology in #Canada. doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23621
Although we’re very excited because this was A LOT of work and because it’s one of my thesis chapters, we’re not so excited to report a decrease in density in 6/7 lemur spp and a very important annual decrease in forest cover in Kianjavato
🎉 Exciting news! Our paper on land cover changes' impact on lemur populations in SE Madagascar is out! Alarming declines in lemur densities revealed. Despite expectations, higher forest cover didn't always mean higher lemur populations, highlighting habitat complexity.
🥳Excited to share our latest lemur pop research led by @pamnarvaez and @NicolaGuthrie, w/ amazing collaborators from @MBPartnership, @calgaryzoo, and @OmahaZoo. Many thanks to special issue editors @AMelinLab and @Teichroeb_Lab! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
This paper would not have been possible without the very hard work of a very large team! @NicolaGuthrie @HasinalaR @zs_jacobson @calgaryzoo @WilderInstitute @MBPartnership @steigj @sm_holmes3