Project Timeline
Project launches with funding approval from Environment and Climate Change Canada. The team hosts their first meetings to launch the project.
Nature NB and our team of Coastal Guardians lead a beach clean-up on the Acadian Peninsula, collecting over 84 lbs of waste from our shorelines.
Project partners participate in a blanket exercise at the Red Bank Lodge organized by Mi’gmawe’l Tplu’taqnn and Anqotum Resource Management.
Field visit to the Bernie Bowie Nature Preserve with partners for the Tabusintac and Esgenoôpetitj team.
Birds Canada works with schools to design “Help Protect our Dunes” signs.
The team launched our project logo that serves as a representation of different cultures, languages, values, and wildlife in the coastal zone.
Nature Conservancy of Canada and David Mazerolle host a Walk and Talk on coastal plants on Miscou Island.
Partners host Seashore Explore events for youth across the Chaleur Bay region.
Salt marsh copper (Tharsalea dospassosi) sighted in a marsh in Shediac, NB during a training workshop held for Healthy Coasts NB partners by the Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre.
Nature NB’s Lewnanny Richardson monitoring Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) in the Acadian Peninsula.
Project kick-off meeting for the Richibucto area led by the Nature Conservancy of Canada’s Jennifer White.
Nature NB’s Program Manager Lauren Stead working alongside partners and volunteers to restore a bank swallow (Riparia riparia) colony at Youghall Beach in Bathurst, NB.
For the first time since their introduction in 1990, 3 new subpopulations of Maritime Ringlet (Coenonympha nipisiquit) were found near Caraquet, NB, demonstrating an extremely promising finding for species recovery and population expansion. Photo credits: Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre.
Nature NB, the Nature Conservancy of Canada, and the Greater Kouchibouguac Watershed Association were joined by students from École Mgr-Marcel-François-Richard for a dune restoration event at the Community Centre in Pointe-Sapin, NB. During this coastal dune restoration event, volunteers planted 1,000 marram grass plugs, installed two educational signs about the importance of dune ecosystems, and constructed a wattle fence to stabilize the dune.
A ghost gear workshop was hosted by Nature NB and New Brunswick Environmental Network in Shediac, NB, exploring the challenges and root causes of ghost gear, and to identify practical, collaborative opportunities to advance ghost gear prevention, mitigation, and retrieval.
Healthy Coasts NB partners have been building relationships and identifying priority coastal concerns to support the expansion of restoration efforts along New Brunswick’s Southern Bay of Fundy coast.
