The Nature Conservancy of Canada is adding 325 acres of land to their collection of protected wilderness in southeastern New Brunswick.
They bought 197 acres of wetlands and forest near Sackville, to add the property to their wildlife corridor on the Chignecto Isthumus, connecting New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
The NCC says this corridor is needed to prevent Nova Scotia from becoming an ecological island, and to allow endangered animals like moose to recover.
So far, they have preserved 3,400 acres on the isthmus.
They also purchased 128 acres of coastal property, including a salt marsh, near Shemogue, which provides habitat for many species of shorebirds and migratory birds.
