Did you know that more than 95% of New Brunswick land is unprotected and vulnerable to activities that could harm wildlife and damage the natural beauty of our province? We need to act now to protect N.B.’s natural areas, and our friends at the Nature Trust of New Brunswick have made it easy for you […]
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Our Executive Director, Lois Corbett, joined conservation and environmental groups clear across the country in welcoming proposed changes to Canada’s Fisheries Act. In articles published in the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal and CBC New Brunswick, Corbett and our Fundy Baykeeper Matt Abbott said the new legislation is good news for New Brunswick, the Bay of Fundy,
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Washington State officials have terminated a lease with Cooke Aquaculture Pacific and fined the company $332,000 after a state investigation conducted last month revealed it had not adequately maintained the net pen that failed last summer and released hundreds of thousands of Atlantic salmon into Pacific Waters near Cypress Island in Washington. The investigation also
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Attention New Editors: Lois Corbett, Executive Director, and Matt Abbott, the Fundy Baykeeper. issued the following statement with respect to the introduction of the new national Fisheries Act. “The new law that protects Canada’s fisheries and their upstream and downstream habitat is good news for New Brunswick coastal communities and the thousands of jobs that
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Bog. Fen. Swamp. Marsh. These words may conjure up images of stagnant and muddy water, but the truth is these different types of wetlands can be beautiful, peaceful, and full of life. They are also critical for the health of New Brunswick’s forests, our coastlines, and our marine waters. Today we are celebrating World Wetlands Day
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In this edition of EcoNews, we bring you a great story about conservation in action from the Gulf of Maine and Bay of Fundy; we give you our reaction to and analysis of the long-awaited New Brunswick water protection strategy, and then our less enthusiastic response to a largely flat-footed climate change bill in N.B.; we
EcoNews — Smart stewardship, help for whales, and a big ‘thank you!’ Read More »
Our Executive Director, Lois Corbett, told reporters the province’s 2018-19 budget was another missed opportunity to help New Brunswickers deal with the health and safety risks of climate change. Corbett told CBC New Brunswick on Jan. 31 that it was another “status quo” budget that was “a missed opportunity to help people take action at
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Attention News Editors: Lois Corbett, Executive Director, issued the following statement today with respect to the release of the province’s 2018-19 budget. “The budget sticks to the government’s early December announcement that there are no additional fiscal measures it is prepared to take to reduce carbon pollution. As we noted then, it is most likely
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A study published last week shows that climate change is and will continue to have a major impact on lobster populations in the Gulf of Maine. The good news: conservation measures adopted by the state decades ago will ensure that the fishery so important to coastal communities will survive the changes. The study, authored by
The federal government announced new measures this week aimed at helping North Atlantic right whales return to the Gulf of St. Lawrence next summer. Fisheries and Oceans Minister Dominic LeBlanc introduced four changes to the snow crab fishery during a press conference in Moncton on Jan. 23, the latest in efforts to address the catastrophic
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