The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) is announcing a new conservation site in southwest Alberta. This 303-hectare property, dubbed Chapel Rock, boasts…
The Ginns donated a significant portion of the value of the property to HAT to achieve this goal, the Trust said in a statement. “It would have been difficult for us to save the Highlands forest in perpetuity without mentoring from the capable staff at HAT. We trust our gift will inspire other people to cherish and protect nature,” the Ginns said. Jonathan Wilkinson, federal environment minister, said in a statement: “Together, and with the support of programs like the Canada Nature Fund’s Natural Heritage Conservation Program, we are making progress toward our goal of conserving a quarter of Canada’s land by 2025.”
An ecologically diverse 23-acre parcel of land bordering Thetis Lake Regional Park is now officially protected by the Habitat Acquisition Trust. It was owned by Anne and Jim Ginns for 50 years, . . .
Image Credit: SUBMITTED/Nature Trust of B.C./Graham Osborne January 27, 2021 - 5:30 AM The Nature Trust of British Columbia is working to protect grassland near Princeton with the recent purchase of hundreds of hectares. The non-profit land conservation group is working to buy up to 1,052 hectares of land known as the Princeton Grasslands-MapleCross Meadow in three phases, according to a Nature Trust of BC media release. Phase one and two are now complete with 868 hectares acquired with 189 left to go. The property is home to important habitat for the Williamson’s sapsucker, a small woodpecker that is estimated to number less than 500 adult birds in Canada. The Princeton Grasslands are also habitat for barn swallows and olive-sided flycatchers, both threatened species, and the western screech owl. It is also adjacent to provincial winter range for mule deer.