Species at risk now have another safe place to call home in the South Shore.
The Nova Scotia Nature Trust has secured 93 acres in Barren Meadow near Colpton, Lunenburg County.
Directory of Conservation Ross Firth says the habitat is ideally suited to protect Blanding’s Turtles and Eastern Ribbonsnakes.
“They need these areas of woodlands, they need these slow-moving streams, stillwater areas. Areas in which they can over-winter, they can eat, they can forage in order to survive.
Firth says the area will be a safe home for the species for generations.
“For every property that we secure, we make a commitment to steward those properties in perpetuity. We establish an endowment fund which enables us to assign resources internally to monitor the property on a very regular basis.”
Firth says the Nature Trust is always looking for donations of land or money to help in their conservation efforts.
To learn more or donate, follow this link.
**Photo contributed
Reported by: Ed Halverson
Twitter: @edwardhalverson
E-mail: halverson.ed@radioabl.ca
