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Fighting for Critical Habitat for the Piping Plover

Piping plover adult, by Mathew Schwartz “Canada’s Ocean Playground” has a problem. Our coastline is increasingly developed into private vacation homes and tourism attractions, while local access, traditional use, and wildlife habitat are pushed to the side. Nova Scotia has 13,000 km of coastline and sea levels are expected to rise up to one metre […]

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Nova Scotian naturalists respond to the draft Old Growth Forest Policy

The Nova Scotia government released the draft “Old-Growth Forest Policy for Nova Scotia” in the fall of 2021, asking Nova Scotians to give their feedback on proposed updates. This new version would update the Old Forest Policy of 2012. The document was long and technical, so we provided a selection of responses from expert scientists, naturalists, and

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