Policy Support

Alberta NAWMP policy support efforts are directed at federal, provincial and municipal levels of governments, with emphasis on the provincial jurisdiction over wetlands. The Alberta NAWMP Policy Sub-Committee monitors and guides all policy activities within the broader partnership.

Alberta NAWMP policy support efforts are currently focused on:

  • Supporting the development of the Alberta Wetland Policy (and the provincial Water for Life Strategy). Alberta NAWMP Partners, as both participants of the Alberta Water Council and Wetland Policy Project Team, are actively involved in the development and implementation of the policy.
  • Encouraging the development of wetland conservation, protection and restoration objectives for all watersheds in Alberta under appropriate planning mechanisms (e.g. integrated watershed management plans under the Water for Life Strategy, the Alberta Land-Use Framework, Alberta Environment’s cumulative effects management system).
  • Ensuring wetland-associated perennial upland conservation and protection objectives are set for all target landscapes in Alberta under appropriate planning mechanisms (e.g. Alberta’s Land Use Framework).
  • Incorporating enhanced incentives for the conservation, protection and restoration of wetlands and associated native habitats into appropriate government programs.
  • Encouraging the development and provision of permanent cover programs by government through incentives to convert cropland to ecologically appropriate perennial cover. This will be achieved by directly engaging federal government in Growing Forward and promoting new provincial government programs (including monitoring uplands and wetlands under existing Greencover and Permanent Cover programs (PCP).
  • Ensuring waterfowl crop damage prevention and compensation programs are maintained at appropriate levels. Alberta NAWMP will continue to support funding and implementation agencies to ensure program is maintained and adequately funded.
  • Ensuring habitat-related beneficial management practices (BMPs) are included in the second generation of Growing Forward and other government initiatives.
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The Alberta NAWMP Partnership is an excellent example of the cooperation we need. Working with partners is the key to moving conservation efforts along.

H. Loney Dickson
Past Chair of the Prairie Habitat Joint Venture (PHJV), Shorebird Working Group