The Nature Conservancy of Canada will be making a presentation in Yarmouth later this month, updating its work in
Western Nova Scotia.
The Tusket River Environmental Protection Association is hosting the event.
NCC is Canada’s largest private land trust with over 2.8 million acres of protected land across the country.
It has over 6000 acres of nature reserve in the Tusket watershed and is securing new reserves in the Lobster Bay Area.`
Doug van Hemessen, the Nova Scotia stewardship coordinator for the Nature Conservancy will be speaking.
He says it’s been about four years since their last session with TREPA.
“The main purpose is to bring up to date, TREPA folks and others who are there, on what’s been happening with NCC.
We continue to aquire property in that region, so there’s new things that have been going on.”
van Hemesson says groups like the Tusket River Environmental Protection Association, for instance, help spread the word.
“We’re a small organization in Nova Scotia, and nationally in total actually. We’re only five people in our Halifax office and we have
34,000 acres across the province that we manage. We just don’t have the capacity to be everywhere at once and everywhere when we
need to be.”
The session will take place at the Beacon United Church Parlour, Thursday, January 19 at 7 P.M.
