![]() ![]() But, Ben was able to move quickly on the project, faster than anyone else, so we just gave him our blessing to do that,” she says.įerguson says they’re still working on the specifics of the finances, and having all the lands appraised. So we were in conversation with a number of our partners to see if there were any sort of collaborations. This acreage would be a big one for NCC to bite off on our own. “We were looking around at a number of potential conservation partners. Ultimately, the overall goal of the Hastings Wildlife Junction project is to protect at least 20,000 acres over the next few years. The lands in question jumped out at them as it was such a large parcel of ecologically significant land in southern Ontario, so they’ve had it on their radar for some time. NCC and its partners have helped protect 35 million acres across the country since 1962.įerguson says that NCC did a scan of a lot of large landholdings in Ontario back in the spring of 2020. The NCC is Canada’s leading not for profit, private land conservation organization, working to safeguard vital natural areas and the species sustained within them. Consisting of a partial land donation by Land’escapes Ben Samann, the rest of the land will be financed and NCC will be working towards raising the funds over the course of the next several months to pay for this acquisition, called the Hastings Wildlife Junction and the associated costs with acquiring and maintaining it for generations to come. 20, Kristyn Ferguson, the NCC’s large landscapes program director, revealed that they were working toward a major conservation project to protect 12,000 acres near Bancroft. In a media release from the Nature Conservancy of Canada, sent out Oct. ![]()
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