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 »
Biologically diverse habitat conserved for long-term benefit of at-risk species
October 25, 2024Nature Conservancy of Canada protects over 570 hectares of old forest and freshwater wetlands in southwestern Nova ScotiaRead 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 »
Close to 100 hectares of intact forest conserved in Halifax Regional Municipality
July 17, 2024Thanks to the generosity of two nature enthusiasts, 97 hectares of intact forest in the Halifax Regional Municipality is now protected. This ecologically significant piece of nature has been donated by Ann and Maurice Doucet to the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC), who will conserve the land for generations to come.Read more »
Family donates "cathedral” of old hemlock trees to conservation
March 21, 2024Bonnyman family lore states that a beloved grove of hemlock trees will stand as long as the family’s elders do. Today, the Bonnymans are extending that prophecy by donating 37 hectares of old-growth forest, lake shoreline and freshwater wetlands at Mattatall Lake to the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) to conserve the land for future generations.Read more »
Nature Conservancy of Canada announces new addition to Cains Mountain Nature Reserve
November 8, 2023There is good news for nature in central Cape Breton. The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) has purchased a site that expands upon an important natural area in Cains Mountain, Nova Scotia.Read more »
Dr. Bill Freedman Nature Reserve expands with key coastal habitat
June 21, 2023The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) is announcing the expansion of an important private land conservation area within the Halifax Regional Municipality.Read more »
Important migratory bird habitat and rare lichen forest now protected
May 10, 2023The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) is announcing the protection of a new conservation area near the Sable River on Nova Scotia’s south shore. Read more »
