It was a big and successful year for the Appalachian Corridor.<\/p>\n
The Appalachian Corridor is a section of the Green Mountains located in Southern Quebec that dedicated volunteers and community members are fighting to save. They are working to make the Cooridor a conservation site in order to protect the plants and animals that call it home. As a very popular migratory route from Quebec to Vermont, and even further south, it is more important now than ever to protect the land due to the effects of climate change, the Appalachian Corridor team argues. In positive news, every year the percentage of permanently protected land increases and this year has been the most successful yet.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have protected nine new properties forever for a combined total of 700 hectares. Appalachian Corridor is now 7.6 per cent permanently protected,\u201d said M\u00e9lanie Leli\u00e8vre, executive director of the Appalachian Corridor.<\/p>\n
All these conservation achievements are credited to the scientific studies conducted via government grants.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had the chance to do lots of good science to better understand the land,\u201d said Leli\u00e8vre.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy protecting large natural corridors, we are protecting biodiversity which is the only way to ensure all the services provided by nature are maintained,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Leli\u00e8vre said that the work was only done through the \"generous donations of the community.\" The volunteers receive two calls a month from private land owners that want to donate a piece or all of their land to the effort, she added.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe national objective for conservation is 17 per cent, so we still have lots of work to do,\" said Leli\u00e8vre. \"But we are quite proud of those results because 20 years ago there was no other protected area in the region.\"<\/p>\n
\u201cThe mission of The Appalachian Corridor is to not only protect biodiversity but create a large natural corridor of protected areas,\" she added.<\/p>\n
The Appalachian Corridor is a beautiful serene piece of nature that is slowly being protected forever.<\/p>\n
Here is M\u00e9lanie Leli\u00e8vre, executive director of the Appalachian Corridor, speaking with CIDI:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was a big and successful year for the Appalachian Corridor. The Appalachian Corridor is a section of the Green Mountains located in Southern Quebec that dedicated volunteers and community members are fighting to save. They are working to make the Cooridor a conservation site in order to protect the plants and animals that call…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":21328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,222],"tags":[3209,3212,3208,3210,3211],"radio":[246],"origine":[274,259,260],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21315"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=21315"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=21315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}