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CPAWSTRACKS ACROSS CANADA

Protecting Ontario’s Exploring our
waning moose population parks responsibly
with CPAWS NB
CPAWS Wildlands League is calling on the Ontario
government to end the hunting of moose calves. Moose CPAWS New Brunswick is keen to
populations have dropped by 20 per cent in the last help people Discover Our Parks
decade alone. Crucial to maintaining a stable moose this summer. In celebration of the
population is ensuring enough calves survive. 150th anniversary of confederation,
our “Get Outside! NB” program
Declining wildlife is a global crisis. In Ontario, the Photo: Evan Ferrari/CPAWS will be hosting special festivities
moose population faces many challenges, including the Wildlands League in each of our provincial parks,
increasing pressure of a changing climate. Parasites, in partnership with Parks New
Brunswick and Nature NB.We’ll
disease, predation, hunting, and degradation of habitat all play a role. Moose have long have nature activities – like nature
walks, seashore exploring, canoe
survived in ecosystems modified by resource extraction and forest management, living paddles, and guided hikes – to
encourage New Brunswickers
with a continual expansion of road networks.The ways in which we regulate hunting and and visitors to explore our parks
as a safe, guided, dependable way
forestry are therefore key in promoting the resiliency of this iconic species. of being introduced to outdoor
experiences.The celebrations will
The Ministry of Natural Resource and Forestry’s data reveals this is a problem in more highlight the diversity of cultures in
than 45 per cent of wildlife management units. Help us safeguard moose and end the calf New Brunswick, include different
generations coming together to
hunt.Visit wildlandsleague.org to take action today. celebrate 150+ years of connecting
to nature, and inspire youth to carry
- Niamh Wall, CPAWS Wildlands League For more information, visit www.wildlandsleague.org on a legacy of nature conservation
and stewardship.We’ll be happy to
Map of new marine protected area have volunteers, or come along as a
Map: Fisheries and Oceans Canada participant!

New marine area in Nova Scotia, and the - Roberta Clowater, CPAWS New Brunswick
protected area for first one established in over
Nova Scotia a decade. It will help protect For more information, visit www.cpawsnb.org
important habitat for the
2017 began with great news for marine endangered leatherback sea CPAWS NB’s
conservation in Nova Scotia! After seven turtle, Atlantic cod, and Atlantic Get Outside program
years of negotiations and campaigning, the wolffish, as well as important connects youth to nature.
federal government has initiated the final occurrences of deep sea corals,
step in the very long designation process sponges, and sea pens. Photo: CPAWS NB
for St. Anns Bank Marine Protected Area,
located off the eastern coast of Cape This new marine protected
Breton Island. area will be entirely off limits to oil
and gas exploration, and completely off
At 4,364 square kilometres in size, this limits to bottom-trawling.Three zones,
will be the largest marine protected covering about 20 per cent of the marine
protected area, will be created for lower
impact fisheries.

We are grateful to the many people who
took the time to write a letter of support
for St. Anns Bank Marine Protected
Area during the public review period. If
all goes well, the official designation by
the Department of Fisheries and Oceans
should occur within the next few months.

- Chris Miller, National Conservation Biologist

Please visit www.cpawsns.org

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