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Help Protect and Preserve Our Wetlands

­February 2, 2025, is World Wetlands Day.

Together, let’s celebrate how vital wetland ecosystems are to our well being and quality of life! From helping mitigate the impacts of drought by slowly releasing the water they’ve stored back into surrounding areas, to providing wildlife habitat important for waterfowl and other species including key pollinators, wetlands provide us with a diversity of important ecosystems services. They really are one of nature’s solutions to a healthy and productive landscape and community.

­The time to act is now. Contact us or one of our key Partners to help you conserve these critical wetland resources – in the spirit of World Wetland Day – we invite you to join us as we continue “advancing conservation together” in 2025.

Photo: Ducks Unlimited Canada

The Alberta NAWMP Partnership seeks to maintain healthy prairie, parkland and boreal landscapes that support sustainable bird populations and provide ecological and economic benefits to society. All our efforts are founded in solid scientific principles and research.

Through our Science Fund, our Partnership continues to support like-minded researchers and projects that focus on advancing our knowledge and understanding of ecosystem services, conservation planning and human dimensions.

Applications are now being accepted for the fiscal year 2022-23 and must be received by March 1, 2022.

Get more information and download the application form.

Learn more about some of the projects funded in the past by the Alberta NAWMP Partnership through our Science Stories.