Nova Scotia designates five new nature reserves
19 Oct 08
The Nova Scotia government is following through on its promise to designate the significant majority of lands acquired from Abitibi-Bowater last year as wilderness areas and nature reserves.
On October 16, 2008, the Province announced that five new nature reserves have been designated, totaling 594 hectares. The new nature reserves are:
- Long Lake Nature Reserve, Lunenburg County (261 hectares)
- Sixth and Coades Lakes Nature Reserve, Queens County (129 hectares)
- Eighteen Mile Brook Nature Reserve, Queens County (66 hectares)
- West Branch Medway River Nature Reserve, Annapolis County (79 hectares)
- Martin Brook Nature Reserve, Shelburne County (60 hectares)
For more information on the five new nature reserves, click here:
http://gov.ns.ca/news/details.asp?id=20081016003
CPAWS applauds these designations, and looks forward to the remainder of the lands acquired from Abitibi-Bowater last year being protected in the near future.
The provincial government is also moving ahead with a wilderness area designation for lands purchased along the Shelburne River.
CPAWS is requesting that this area be designated as quickly as possible, that it be expanded to include the public lands of the adjacent Tobeatic Boot, and that a logging road punching through the wilderness area be removed.
For more information on the Shelburne River Wilderness Area, click here
http://www.gov.ns.ca/nse/protectedareas/wa_shelburneriver.asp