Island Nature Trust wants you… to volunteer to patrol its growing number of protected acres [Video]

As Island Nature Trust marks its 45th anniversary with 23 more natural areas protected across Prince Edward Island, it’s looking for a few good people to act as conservation guardians.

The guardians help monitor what’s going on with all of the land under the non-profit’s protection, both forested and along the coastline, specifically looking for signs that people have been altering the landscape.

“Our natural areas all have biological inventories that are conducted when we acquire the land, and then we try to access each of our 111 natural areas every year,” said Melissa Cameron, executive director of Island Nature Trust. 

“That’s a lot of work, and we rely a lot on volunteers to help us monitor for human disturbance in our natural areas.”

Salt marshes are extremely beneficial to P.E.I.’s ecosystem, says Simon Andrea with Island Nature Trust. This specific marsh just east of Stratford is open for nature …