23 Feb Species at Risk and Water & Fisheries Management
The Environment & The Constitution Series: Species at Risk and Water & Fisheries Management AN ELC REPORT SERIES The ELC is pleased to present a series of reports and webinars in relation...
The Environment & The Constitution Series: Species at Risk and Water & Fisheries Management AN ELC REPORT SERIES The ELC is pleased to present a series of reports and webinars in relation...
Battleground Environment Deconstructing Environmental Jurisdiction under the Canadian Constitution BACKGROUNDER TO AN ELC REPORT SERIES The environment and all that it entails does not specifically appear in the Canadian Constitution. Rather, the environment...
CESD finds insufficient Monitoring, Listing and Enforcement is undermining protection of Species at Risk and Biodiversity in Canada Since 1995, the Office of the Auditor General of Canada has had a mandate...
An update on the E.L. Smith Solar Farm: Case Comment on Edmonton River Valley Conservation Coalition Society v Council of the City of Edmonton In August 2021, we released our report “Here...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On the wrong path: the proposed Trails Act needs changes to ensure trail management reflects science Edmonton, Alberta - November 3, 2021 - The Trails Act (Bill 79) was tabled...
Changes made to Alberta’s forest laws in May 2021 but has anything really changed? The need to shift to managing forests not forestry Earlier this year, changes were made to the Forests...
Accounting for Nature: The Kananaskis Conservation Pass In 2022, the Environmental Law Centre (“ELC”) will be releasing a report about the funding of conservation. For our purposes, conservation funding broadly refers to...
Bank Swallows and Motorsports: In the race to save species at risk, we need to pick up the pace This story, like many that deal with species at risk in Canada, is...
Woodland Caribou vs. Everybody When you think of Canada and its wildlife, there are a few iconic animal species that might immediately come to mind. Perhaps you think of the beaver,...
Moving from Conversion to Conservation: ELC publishes Agricultural Lands Law and Policy in Alberta Alberta’s agricultural lands support numerous social, economic and environmental benefits. Despite this, we have lost and continue...
Habitat Matters: Habitat laws, challenges and new directions Habitat is essential to the survival of all species. Our activities across the landscape have a significant impact on the habitat of other...
Bat Week runs from October 24 to October 31st Correction: An earlier version of this blog has been corrected to note that non-licenced animals may be hunted under s.24 of the...