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    Episode 18: The Forgotten Closures, with Grace Wark

    Episode 18: The Forgotten Closures, with Grace Wark

    The United Conservative government announced in February its plan to close 20 provincial parks and seek third-party management for 164 Crown sites, and the public was furious.

    Then COVID-19 hit.

    With all that has occurred in 2020 to date, it’s easy to understate the importance (and danger) of this decision, as what is already a vastly under-protected environment is opened up to the possibility of exploitation for profit. But a 57,000-signature petition urging the reversal of the UCP’s decision suggests plenty of Albertans are fighting for parks, and with the pandemic highlighting our need to preserve nature, this is a story that deserves more of our focus.

    Grace Wark is a conservation specialist with the Alberta Wilderness Association, a Calgary-based, non-partisan, non-profit group devoted to promoting community care of wildlife and wilderness. She joins The Forgotten Corner this week to offer expertise into the impact that park closures of this magnitude will have.

    In an environmentally essential episode, we dissect the UCP’s shortsighted decision and discuss some of the various for-profit results that could emerge at the literal expense of Albertans and the wilderness surrounding them.

    Follow Grace on Twitter at @WarkInProgress
    Follow the Alberta Wilderness Association on Twitter at @ABWilderness

    Read Grace’s op-ed in the Narwhal here.

    Read more on the parks closures here:
    https://calgaryherald.com/news/politics/ucp-moves-forward-with-plans-to-delist-alberta-parks-as-government-commits-43-million-to-improve-existing-sites/wcm/2c11bb0f-6d8a-4c6c-ad0b-19bfbab253d7/amp/

    https://globalnews.ca/news/6899395/alberta-government-parks-partnership-rules/amp/

    https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5484095

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