We've recently added two reports to our website to aid in the management of ecological corridors at the municipal level.
Check our latest reports:
Ecological Corridor Overlay: Recommendations for Implementation in Rural Municipalities
This document was developed in partnership with the Oldman River Regional Services Commission. We recommend the use of an “overlay district” — a zoning district that is applied on top of an existing zoning designation — as a planning tool to help maintain ecological corridors at the municipal level. Development applications within an ecological corridor overlay district may be subject to additional requirements or considerations, such as following mitigation guidelines to ensure wildlife movement can continue. This report provides sample language that municipalities can incorporate into a land-use bylaw when ready, along with suggestions for other ways to integrate ecological connectivity into municipal planning.
Development Mitigation Guidelines for Ecological Corridors
This document was developed to provide guidelines that encourage development to proceed in ways that do not impede ecological connectivity. The goal is to help municipalities and developers minimize the impacts of development on terrestrial wildlife movement. The strategies included were developed following engagement with experts in municipal planning and ecological connectivity. The suggested mitigation strategies are intended to complement results from the Wildlife Movement tool (https://miistakis.shinyapps.io/cra_app/), which assesses a proposed developments impact to delineated ecological corridors.
We would like to thank our generous funders for this work: Alberta Real Estate Foundation, Wilburforce Foundation, and Woodcock Foundation.
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