The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) introduced Friday it’s increasing key wilderness space within the Halifax Regional Municipality, alongside the Musquodoboit River.
The non-revenue company stated it’s buying 126 acres, or about half a sq. kilometre, of forest, freshwater wetlands and lakes. It additionally bought a one-kilometre part of river frontage.
In whole, the NCC now owns just below 3.2 sq. kilometres of conservation space within the Musquodoboit River Valley.
“With the addition of this key parcel of land, the entirety of Turtle Lake is now fully protected,” learn an NCC launch.
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The space is a vital habitat for species variety in Nova Scotia.
According to NCC, there may be particular concern for the survival of the snapping turtle and the financial institution swallow, a species of birds that’s listed beneath the Canadian Species at Risk Act.
Only 5 per cent of this forest sort stays within the Maritimes, stated NCC.
Steven Guilbeault, federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change, acknowledged within the launch that extra must be accomplished to halt biodiversity loss.
“It is vital that we take action locally, regionally, and nationally to recover Canada’s species at risk and restore our natural areas and biodiversity,” Guilbeault stated.
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“This project adds important connectivity for wildlife by adding conserved land that connects to existing provincially protected areas.”
He added tasks like these work in the direction of the purpose of defending 1 / 4 of Canada’s land by 2025, and 30 per cent by 2030.
Across the nation, NCC conserves about 150,000 sq. kilometres of land. Of these, about 27.5 sq. kilometres are in central Nova Scotia and just below 360 sq. kilometres in all of Atlantic Canada.
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