How a groundbreaking partnership between the Nature Trust and the Peskotomuhkati Nation at Skutik is reclaiming, conserving and restoring land.
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How the MacLeod Family and the Nature Trust preserved ‘fern gully’ for future generations.
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The research of Master’s student Madi White is helping us protect this unique and threatened forest. By exploring the species composition and land usage history, we can gain a better understanding of the factors that are impacting restoration efforts.
Read MoreThis hemlock grows on one of the 15+ properties we are currently fundraising to protect as part of our most ambitious acquisition campaign ever, setting the stage for what would be a record-breaking year for conservation at the Nature Trust.
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Nature Trust’s Stewardship Coordinator Shraddha Vadgama’s passion for nature extends across continents. Shraddha Vadgama’s global conservation journey is honoured with the Don Dennison award.
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When New Brunswickers head to the polls for the Oct. 21 provincial election, we know you’ll have many issues at the top of your mind. At the Nature Trust of New Brunswick, we’re asking you to make room for one more: we’re asking you to vote for nature. Click here to take our pledge to vote for nature this election!
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We’re asking our members and supporters to make nature a priority when voting on Oct. 21. Here are four questions you can ask candidates to see where they stand on protecting nature, biodiversity loss, and climate change.
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To take care of our growing network of nature preserves, which now spans over 13,000 acres of land across 83 preserves, we rely on our network of knowledgeable and passionate volunteers and stewards. Click here to read all about our Stewardship Training Days program, read testimonials from participants and staff, and learn how you can do your part for nature!
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With our annual Great Fundy Coastal Cleanup on the horizon and the federal government’s recent proposal of new Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) along the Bay of Fundy, we’ve got the protection of our coastal ecosystems and the species that call them home on the brain. Click here to learn about one of the staple species of the Bay of Fundy, the harbour seal (Phoca vitulina)!
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The Nature Trust of New Brunswick is proud to announce it has reached a new land protection milestone, now conserving more than 13,000 acres (5260.9 hectares) of pristine wilderness across the province with the recent expansion of the Réserve naturelle Grande-Digue Nature Preserve!
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Scritch scratch, scritch scratch. A little bird sits in a small crevice on the side of a steep riverbank. Scritch scratch, scritch scratch. The crevice grows larger and larger as the bird continues to burrow into it. Scritch scratch, scritch scratch. Eventually, the crevice is large enough to fit several of his fellow birds and a nest for his young. He’s made a home for both himself and his potential family.
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In the foggy July morning off the eastern shore of Grand Manan, mist drips off the tamaracks and bright-green rockweed. Gulls and cormorants wheel over the beaches and rocky shoreline of the Keiko and Errol Nature Preserve at Ross Island.
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We know our Nature Trust supporters love birds, but what about the ones you can’t always see? Some spend their winters along the U.S. coast only to grace our Maritime shores during the spring and summer months, inhabiting some of our most remote and scenic islands to breed and raise their young. Click here to read all about the common eider, one of the many birds that calls our South Wolf Island Nature Preserve home during these warmer months!
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The Bay of Fundy may finally get the protections it deserves in the form of new, proposed Marine Protected Areas—but your help is needed to make sure the most ecologically important areas in the Bay are included in the federal government’s finalized network. Read on to learn more about marine protection, why it’s important, and how you can help ensure the Bay of Fundy gets the attention it deserves while also increasing the effectiveness of the protections already afforded by our land-based nature preserves in the region.
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After a long off-and-on winter, spring is finally here. You’ve had a lovely vacation in Argentina, and as you’re returning to New Brunswick you look toward the clouds. They start to part, and you softly fly down to a beautiful meadow. You’re home, and it has been a long trip. This scene is playing out across New Brunswick right now, as the beautiful songbirds called bobolinks return to their homes after a staggering 20,000-kilometre round-trip! Read on to learn all about this colourful songbird, which of our nature preserves you stand the best chance to catch a glimpse of one, and how you can help ensure its nesting habitat remains safe and undisturbed.
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When you work in conservation, there is always one question that plagues your mind: Is what I am doing really making a difference? If there was ever any doubt, take heart—a new study confirms that the work carried out by conservationists including our team and our invaluable network of stewards and volunteers is not only having a positive impact on the ground in New Brunswick, but is part of a global community actively slowing the biodiversity and nature loss crisis!
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Josh Carew spent his earliest years in Toronto surrounded by the ‘concrete jungle.’ Although he had visited courtyards and playgrounds before, it was not until he moved to Nova Scotia that he truly got to experience the great outdoors for the first time. Now a volunteer steward for the Nature Trust of New Brunswick, Carew is encouraging others to experience the connection and community that comes when you give back to nature.
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As the sun dipped below the horizon, casting long shadows through the dense forest, the barred owl's haunting call echoed through the trees. "Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you allllll!" It was a sound both eerie and enchanting, signaling the onset of twilight and the beginning of the owl's nightly rituals. Far from being a mere vocalization, it was a declaration of presence, a proclamation of territory, and a serenade of courtship all rolled into one. For those fortunate enough to witness it, the barred owl's call was a symphony of the wild, a reminder of the mysteries hidden within the depths of the woods.
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As spring awakens the land, so too does it stir the wood turtle from its winter slumber in Maritime streams! Discover how the Nature Trust of New Brunswick is at the forefront of protecting these at-risk turtles and learn how you can contribute to safeguarding their future.
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With an event this significant on the horizon, why settle for a dim view when you can have front row seats to the celestial show of the century? Read on for your guide to taking in the 2024 total eclipse, including what equipment you’ll need to stay safe, and our recommendation for the best Nature Trust nature preserves to experience totality in tranquility and free of light pollution. Grab your goggles and prepare for event so stellar, it's bound to eclipse all others!
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