Environmentally Sensitive Areas (ESAs) are key landscape features, providing important ecosystem services to municipalities at regional and local scales. The stewardship of ESAs is essential to the long-term maintenance of ecosystem function and biological diversity of the region. These cherished and often irreplaceable natural places are worthy of retention or special care to maintain water quality, provide flood mitigation, retain natural habitats and diverse landscapes, and preserve other valued ecosystem functions and services.

The ESAs dashboard presents data on ESAs in the Calgary Metropolitan Region, based on definitions, criteria and a database of ESAs developed for the Calgary Metropolitan Region Board (CMRB) in 2024. The data shown is derived from many input datasets and is subject to changes and updates in one or more input datasets. The current version represents the best available information at the time of most recent update. The database was last updated September 2024.