by Jenn Smith January 10, 2020
Canadian Pacific has donated $500,000 to the Jim Prentice Wildlife Corridor in Alberta’s Crowsnest Pass, officials said Wednesday.
The Nature Conservancy of Canada said it has acquired more than 80 per cent of the required lands within the corridor area between Crowsnest Lake and Coleman.
The corridor will create a protected network of space across Highway 3, in an area that naturally funnels wildlife — including elk, moose, deer, wolves and bears — north and south through the Rockies.
“This stretch of land is very important because a lot of the larger ungulates and carnivores that exist both north and south of that — north up towards Banff and Jasper, south towards Waterton-Glacier [International Peace Park] and into the U.S. — use this piece of land to connect their populations and keep the genetic diversity so that the animals stay viable,” said Bob Demulder, regional vice-president of the conservancy. This year, the organization will use cameras to track and research wildlife in the zone, to understand which species are moving through the area.
“This was something that the former premier would have loved because he was actually instrumental in the past and doing this kind of support work when he was the federal environment minister, as well as he was very supportive of this when he was the premier,” Demulder said.
Story re-posted from Global News. Written by Kaylen Small.
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