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Fescue Across Borders: Conservation of fescue grasslands in the Waterton region
Contributing IUCN constituents:Parks Canada Agency - Agence Parcs Canada
Project Details
| Name | Fescue Across Borders: Conservation of fescue grasslands in the Waterton region |
| Description | Grassland ecosystems are among the most threatened in the world. Alberta's Foothills Fescue and Foothills Parkland grasslands have undergone substantial, ongoing declines, with less than 35% remaining intact. Waterton is the only Canadian national park that protects the Foothills Parkland ecoregion and has improved its condition through past projects by achieving gains on invasive species control, active restoration of disturbed areas, species reintroductions (leopard frogs), visitor engagement and volunteer activities, among other initiatives. The successes achieved through past programs can now be enhanced by improving partnerships with neighbours to achieve greater results within and beyond park boundaries. Approach: — Develop a joint prescribed fire plan with Kainai Nation. — Collect native seeds from priority high-quality sources. — Return missing or degraded processes (fire, grazing) and biodiversity components onto the landscape to restore lands with diminished structure, function and biodiversity. — Apply prescribed fire on the landscape to reduce aspen and shrub encroachment and for non-native plant control. — Focus on cooperative programs across regional boundaries to improve actions such as invasive plant control, ecological restoration and focused research. — Apply human wellbeing and climate smart Conservation Standards along with Indigenous–lead programs (e.g. Kainai Eco-cultural restoration initiative). — Support Kainai eco-cultural restoration plan. |
| Contributing IUCN Constituent | Parks Canada Agency - Agence Parcs Canada |
| Start Date | 4/1/2022 |
| End Date | 3/31/2024 |
| Conservation Actions | 2.2 Invasive/Problematic Species Control2.3 Habitat & Natural Process Restoration3.4 Ex-Situ Conservation7.2 Alliance & Partnership Development |
| Needed annual budget | - |
| Total annual budget | - |
| Staff | ♀ - | ♂ - |
| Beneficiaries | ♀ - | ♂ - |
Potential reduction of species extinction risk resulting from threat abatement actions
Absolute value (STAR)
0.1
0% of the total biodiversity conservation potential of The Americas is covered by this project.
543,527.6
45.4% of global biodiversity conservation potential is from The Americas.
This stacked bar chart represents the relative disaggregation of the selected contribution's total potential opportunity for reducing global species extinction risk through taking actions to abate different threats to species within its boundaries. The percentages refer to the amount of the total opportunity that could potentially be achieved through abating that particular threat.
% Contribution of threats to species extinction
1.35%
8.2 Problematic native species/diseases
1.55%
2.1 Annual & perennial non-timber crops
3.84%
5.2 Gathering terrestrial plants
10.92%
3.3 Renewable energy
11.22%
4.1 Roads & railroads
11.67%
8.4 Problematic species/diseases of unknown origin
12.30%
1.1 Housing & urban areas
13.41%
9.3 Agricultural & forestry effluents
14.65%
11.1 Habitat shifting & alteration
15.66%
5.3 Logging & wood harvesting
Threat type