With over 2,400,000 students having been educated about conservation through our offerings of over 80 programming options, AHEIA strives to fulfill its mission:
‘To make wildlife and fish part of the value system of every Albertan’.
As a registered charity in Alberta, AHEIA provides conservation and outdoor education to the public and has proudly done so since 1964.
AHEIA’s goals and objectives include promoting the highest standard of sportsman behaviour
and teaching the ethical and humane treatment of fish, wildlife, and all other living creatures.
These objectives are reached by AHEIA’s numerous in-class and online Conservation Education
programs and events including:
• AHEIA Outdoor Wildlife Learning Workbooks and Videos Series
• Alberta Conservation and Hunter Education Certification
• Alberta Fishing Education Program
• Alford Lake Conservation Education Centre for Excellence year-round camp
• Archery Essentials
• Bear Essentials
• Bighorn Sheep Essentials
• Calgary Firearms Centre – Trap, Skeet and 5 Stand shotgun shooting facility
• Canadian Firearms Safety Course
• Canadian Restricted Firearms Safety Course
• Conservation Education Wildlife Museum
• Field Techniques App
• Firearms Questions website (albertafirearmfacts.com)
• Firearms Try ‘n’ Buy
• First Time Hunter Mentor Program
• Identification of Alberta’s Game Fish Quiz
• International Bowhunter Education Program
• KIDWISE Firearm Safety
• National Archery In The Schools Program (NASP)
• Outdoor Women’s Program
• Outdoor Youth Seminars
• OWL (Outdoor Wildlife Learning) Day
• Pleasure Craft Operator Training
• Provincial Hunting Day activities
• Raffles
• Range Officer Certification Course
• Rifle Sight-In Workshops
• Shotgun Coaching Workshops
• Spring Fling
• Teachers’ Workshop
• WISE Awards and Banquet
• Youth and Women’s Shotgun League
• Youth Hunter Education Camps
