Native Plant Producers Society of Alberta

Maintaining Alberta’s Public Wealth

The biodiversity of Alberta’s plants, animals, fungi and microbes belong to the public. As such, they are a part of Alberta’s wealth.
Both global and Alberta environmental degradation face the same challenges. Ecosystems have been diminished in capacity, size, and the ability of the species within them to adapt and survive is increasingly difficult because of environmental stress and habitat destruction. This has a direct negative effect on the wealth of the citizenry.
The Native Plant Producer’s Society of Alberta was created to help maintain and regenerate this wealth. We are achieving this by linking conservation with the job creation for healthy eco- and human systems.

Our first principles are:
■ To operate based on the principles of sustainability: to ensure future generations have access to the abundant resources we have today.
■ Focus holistically on all ecological resources.
■ Find commercial enterprise within sustainable limits.
■ Remember that native flora and fauna provide vital social resources ensuring a sense of place, belonging and connection with the natural environment.
■ Catalog and augmenting the sources of native plant seed by region to maintain high levels of genetic diversity in plant and seed stocks.
■Maintain genetically distinct seed stocks to preserve regional diversity.
■Never develop eco- or cultivars from seed stock.