Establishing a 2024 baseline inventory of native biodiversity found around Alberta’s second largest conservation facility.

The Edmonton Valley Zoo and its team is passionate about the natural world and are always looking to find ways to promote environmental responsibility and reduce its own environmental footprint. Our Conservation team works to conserve species in the wild, through endangered species breeding programs, instituting green practices on site, and inspiring action by our visitors to protect habitat and wildlife. As a large Municipally run conservation facility located within Edmonton’s river valley – a regionally significant wildlife corridor – we are working to find ways to minimize our impact on the surrounding natural environment by implementing more native plantings and other nature based solutions across the site. This project will establish a methodology and monitoring program from which the Edmonton Valley Zoo can monitor trends in native biodiversity use as we work to improve our site naturalization and model native vegetation restoration practices for the 350,000 visitors/year that we educate about local wildlife and habitat conservation.

Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Summers

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Partner:

Edmonton Valley Zoo

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Public administration

University:

University of Alberta

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