Join us for a webinar to learn about the Last Hope Camp and the struggle to protect an 80-year-old forest in Nova Scotia with Nina Newington from Extinction Rebellion!
Forest protectors and members of Extinction Rebellion have been camped out by a logging road in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia since December 2. On April 22nd - Earth Day -- that will be 142 days of camping through snowstorms, gales, and temperatures of minus 25C!
They are there as a last-ditch effort to protect an 80-year-old forest on ‘Crown’ land by Beal's Brook west of Highway 10 near New Albany.
According to Nina, endangered mainland moose and wood turtle are known to be in this area. So are Pine marten, officially endangered in Cape Breton, and in trouble everywhere else.
Since they set up camp, several different species of rare lichen have been discovered in the forest slated to be cut. All need undisturbed habitat, three of the species are classified as species at risk.
