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.

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!

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.

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!

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)! 

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!

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. 

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. 

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! 

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.

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.

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! 

Lauren Aarts tells us about her life as a wrinkled shingle lichen hunter and the Nature Trust’s work to help landholders in New Brunswick learn more about, and help better protect, the natural wonders in their own backyard.

Communications intern Erin Hurley brings us this charming story about the wonders of nature—and how we can all make a difference for one especially magical New Brunswick forest type this holiday season.

The Appalachian Hardwood Forest (AHF) is one of the oldest, richest, and most productive ecosystems in North America. Learn why, and what you can do to help preserve it.

Communications Manager Jon MacNeill shares this story about a day spent on the land with the Wolastoq Grand Chief as part of a Nature Trust initiative to deepen shared stewardship and help revitalize Indigenous names at nature preserves.

Listen to the wonderful Jim Goltz, longtime Nature Trust supporter and volunteer, speak with CBC Shift NB about our campaign to secure a new nature preserve of Appalachian Hardwood Forest near Woodstock and the property’s neat connection to our founder, the late Hal Hinds. 

Read a blog written by our Communications Intern, Ash Noble, about the rare and endangered Furbish’s lousewort, one of the hidden treasures of the Wolastoq/St. John River. Learn more about this unique plant and our work, with partners, to conserve and restore it.

As a supporter of the Nature Trust of New Brunswick, you already help protect the habitat recovery of unique, rare, and beautiful plant and animal species. But right now, you can take that support to the next level by helping to shape Canada's next national biodiversity strategy. 

Hear from some of our conservation leaders about their love of New Brunswick’s natural spaces and their experience as part of the Ambassador Program.

Read a blog by our Communications Intern, Erin Hurley, about the threat of plastic pollution on marine ecosystems and the importance of caring for these critical natural spaces full of colour and life.

Discover the beauty of the 36-hectare (89-acre) property of mature climate-resilient forest and Provincially Significant Wetlands on Scotch Lake we have raised the funds to protect thanks to your generous help!

Read the blog by our Conservation Coordinator, Lauren Aarts, to learn more about why we needed your help to ensure this magical natural space remains intact, forever.