News Releases
Accelerating the pace of land conservation in Atlantic Canada
November 15, 2024The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) is hoping to continue its momentum in Atlantic Canada by expanding several nature reserves and creating new ones. It is putting out a call to the region’s private landowners to explore conservation options through selling or donating healthy, intact forests, wetlands and shoreline properties. The charity is also encouraging the region’s business community and foundations to help them accomplish more land protection. Read more »
Françoise Roy to lead Nature Conservancy of Canada in Atlantic provinces
October 9, 2024Françoise Roy has become the regional vice-president of the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) in the Atlantic provinces.Read more »
Mature forest on Bay of Fundy protected for conservation
August 21, 2024A mature Wabanaki (Acadian) forest in southern New Brunswick is now protected by the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC). The breathtaking 233-hectare seaside forest was a partial land donation by the family of Ruby Brown of St. Martins. NCC announced today that the Fundy Bay View Nature Reserve is dedicated in memory of the family’s patriarch, Austin Brown. The natural area will continue to provide carbon storage and essential habitat for countless native species. Read more »
Crucial nesting habitat for federally endangered piping plovers protected by the Nature Conservancy of Canada
October 18, 2022There is encouraging news for globally endangered piping plovers in New Brunswick. The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) is today announcing a conservation victory in the northeastern section of the province. Read more »
Nature Conservancy of Canada re-opens Shorebird Interpretive Centre
August 3, 2022After being closed to the public for the past two summers, the Johnson’s Mills Shorebird Reserve and Interpretive Centre re-opened on Canada Day weekend. Read more »