The Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (ABMI) is an arms-length, value-neutral scientific organization that measures and reports on the health of Alberta’s biodiversity. The ABMI is being applied to management systems to establish baselines and regional outcomes for biodiversity and then track performance against those outcomes. Notable applications of the ABMI include forest stewardship, oil sands stewardship, and land-use planning. Today, the ABMI is among the most rigorous and broadly-supported biodiversity monitoring programs in the world. The environmental legacy being created through the work of the ABMI is truly enormous. The ABMI is designed to monitor the health of Alberta’s ecological resources in perpetuity.