(Photo: Submitted by Nature Conservancy of Canada)
The Nature Conservancy of Canada is adding to its list of preserved land.
Spokesperson Craig Smith says two more land donations were recently made, “One in New Brunswick, seven hectares on the Chignecto Isthmus just north of Sackville, and secondarily a piece of land at the Pugwash Estuary, which was a 110 acre parcel protecting inner tidal ecosystems and habitats.”
The land donation in New Brunswick was made by the Daniel Lund of Sackville.
LEGACY GIFT: @NCC_CNC is thankful for a memorial land donation in the NB-NS Chignecto Isthmus Wilderness Corridor. It is by the late Daniel Lund. The project was announced in Amherst with @BillCaseyNS & @CraigSmith_NCC https://t.co/YpAlSRiKMy #nbpoli #nspoli #cdnpoli @cathmckenna pic.twitter.com/4yyKyYNujY
— NCC_CNC Media (@NCC_CNCMedia) February 11, 2019
NCC expands its Pugwash Estuary Nature Reserve in Nova Scotia with 122 acres of coastal forest & salt marsh protected, an important habitat for shorebirds! Thank you, Matthew Currie, for your donation. @environmentca @NSFisherman pic.twitter.com/dy5aJlRKs3
— NatureConservancy.ca (@NCC_CNC) February 11, 2019
It will help provide an important link between land already conserved by the N-C-C and the Tintamarre National Wildlife area.
It will help continue connecting New Brunswick and Nova Scotia moose, in one of the Maritimes most vital conservation corridors, “For wildlife that need to roam and move, they can make their way in either direction across the Isthmus and help preserve long time viability in some of our wildlife populations.” Smith says.
The Chignecto-Isthmus is the centre of what’s known as the moose sex project.
“To date, we have now protected over 2000 acres of private land on the Chignecto-Isthmus,” Smith says.
