Your Conservation Council team is working hard with science and policy groups from all across Canada to help restore key protections for fish and freshwater and marine habitat lost under the previous government’s amendments in the “Omnibus” bill. Federal Fisheries and Oceans Minister Dominic LeBlanc has opened up a broad consultation. Go to Let’s Talk […]
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Dr. Louise Comeau, the Conservation Council’s Climate Change and Energy Solutions Director, had a busy week talking to media about the recommendations made in the “Final Report of the Select Committee on Climate Change.” The all-party committee made 85 recommendations that are in line with what the Conservation Council has been proposing — including a phase out of
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What’s your favourite tree? Atlantic Forestry Review and the Conservation Council of New Brunswick want to know. It has been almost 30 years since the book, Great Trees of New Brunswick, was published. We think it’s time to work on another compilation that captures your pictures and stories of more of our native trees. Read David Palmer’s history of
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Historic climate action and a wave of forest love are highlights in this edition of EcoNews that we think will find you raising a glass of local apple cider in celebration this Thanksgiving weekend. Paris Agreement on Climate Change a reality The Paris Agreement on Climate Change was formally ratified on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016
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The Mersey Tobeatic Research Institute is organizing an Old Forest Conservation Science Conference on Oct. 19-21, 2016 in Debert, NS. The Conservation Council is supporting this event. Read more here.
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From Field & Forest is a 2-day conference from Oct. 20-21, 2016 in Moncton that will give natural resource managers and rural entrepreneurs the connections and insights to build sustainable businesses from non-timber forest products (NTFPs). Make connections and learn how to target your market and get your products into the hands of regional and
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The Minister of Environment and Climate Change has commissioned an Expert Panel to review federal environmental assessment processes. The Panel’s priority is to engage and consult with Canadians about new environmental assessment process for the country. The panel and will be touring New Brunswick in October with a first stop in Fredericton on Tuesday, Oct.
The first-ever 5 Days for the Forest will occur in Fredericton during National Forest Week (Sept. 19-24, 2016). The forest festival will celebrate our diverse mixed-wood forest, wildlife and flora. The events will foster an appreciation of New Brunswick’s forest biodiversity in an effort to ensure its conservation. Organized by the Conservation Council of New
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“Learn them, love them, protect them,” Jim Goltz quoted his late friend, Hal Hinds, at a guided walk of Odell Park that opened the Conservation Council’s 5 Days for the Forest event on Sept. 19. Hinds wrote those words in Goltz’s copy of Hinds’ botanical reference guide book, The Flora of New Brunswick. Almost 40 people
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By David Palmer for the Atlantic Forestry Review Everyone has a favourite tree, or maybe two or three. Everyone, that is, who loves the woods, and that would certainly be all our readers for sure. Twenty-eight years ago, under the auspices of the Canadian Forestry Association (CFA), and at the urging of Glen Blouin, David Folster,
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