N.S. news: Nova Scotia Nature Trust meets target [Video]

The Nova Scotia Nature Trust announced Wednesday it has met a target set in 2020 to double its protected lands across the province by 2025.

According to a news release from the trust, the campaign, called Twice the Wild, has now reached more than 30,000 acres after being launched in September 2020, in response to “alarming biodiversity loss, and the growing climate crisis.”

Bonnie Sutherland, the Nova Scotia Nature Trust’s executive director, credited the campaign’s success to an historic public investment in nature conservation, incredible community support, and unprecedented collaboration.

“We applaud the historic federal and provincial commitments to and investments in nature conservation that made the Nature Trust’s ambitious goal to double protected space for nature in Nova Scotia possible,” said Sutherland.

The Province of Nova Scotia committed to protecting 20 per cent of Nova Scotia’s land by 2030, states the release.

“On behalf of all Nova Scotians, I want to thank the Nature Trust for …