Winter 2025

Newsletter Archive

Calgary Connect: new graphic materials

Check out our latest graphic materials highlighting 5 years of wildlife monitoring in Calgary.

We've shared often about our Calgary Connect project, which utilizes remote cameras in Calgary natural areas to learn more about wildlife movement between parks and through the Calgary Metropolitan region. Late last year, we released graphic materials that highlight some of what we’ve learned through five years of remote camera images. Key take-aways from the materials include:

• Calgary has an ecological network that provides connections between habitat inside the city and natural landscapes outside the city. A diversity of wildlife use this ecological network. We have fun thinking of the network like a transit system – a moose would use the “Elbow River Line” to travel from “Weaselhead Station” to “Griffith Woods Station.”
• Six wildlife species were recorded using the underpass at Tsuut’ina trail that connects Weaselhead and natural lands along the Elbow River on Tsuut’ina Nation. This underlines the importance of investment in wildlife-road mitigation. Without this mitigation, Tsuut’ina trail (SW Ring Road) would have created a barrier that would have severely compromised the ecological corridor’s ability to provide wildlife movement.

Visit our reports page to view the following graphic materials: Calgary Connect - Ecological Network, Calgary Connect: 5 Year Species Activities Maps, and Calgary Connect: 5 Year Graphical Summary.

Thank you to our Calgary Connect project partners: City of Calgary, Alberta Parks, Friends of Fish Creek Provincial Park Society, Weaselhead/Glenmore Park Preservation Society; and funders: The Calgary Foundation, TD Friends of the Environment Foundation, Enbridge, and Alberta Ecotrust Foundation.