A small, undeveloped island off the north shores of P.E.I. where blue herons, bald eagles and double-crested cormorants nest is set to be purchased by the Nature Conservancy of Canada and eventually placed under the full-time stewardship of the Mi’kmaq.
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“We like the idea of protecting coastal islands,” Lanna Campbell, Nature Conservancy of Canada’s program director for Prince Edward Island, said in a recent interview. “It’s an area of refuge for wildlife because they’re often inaccessible to motorized vehicles or a lot of people, so they’re just really quiet havens for wildlife.”
About 90 per cent of Prince Edward Island is privately owned, and most landowners are good stewards, she said. But there is always the risk that if private property is sold to someone, they might log trees or “threaten its integrity,” she added. “It’s an island that has magnificent wetlands and a home for all kinds of special little creatures,” she said. “And you know, our people would have used that island to sustain ourselves for generations.”
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