{"id":98505,"date":"2022-06-02T19:17:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T23:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=98505"},"modified":"2022-06-03T09:06:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T13:06:06","slug":"sackville-non-profit-raises-funds-to-protect-restore-forgotten-wabanaki-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/sackville-non-profit-raises-funds-to-protect-restore-forgotten-wabanaki-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Sackville non-profit raises funds to protect, restore &#8216;forgotten&#8217; Wabanaki forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4944765 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content\" data-id=\"4944765\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"theme-post-content.default\">\r\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\r\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4944765 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content\" data-id=\"4944765\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"theme-post-content.default\">\r\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\"> Community Forests International, a non-profit based in Sackville, has launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/forestsinternational.org\/donate\/forgotten-forest\/#block_id-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fundraising campaign<\/a> to purchase and restore 2,500 acres of forests in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.<\/div>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\r\n\r\n The Wabanaki Forest, also called the Acadian Forest, historically spans the Maritime provinces, the Gasp\u00e9 Peninsula and parts of New England.<\/div>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\r\n\r\n It includes a mix of northern adapted species, such as spruce, poplar larch and birch, along with southern adapted species including oak, pine, maple and hemlock. \r\n\r\n But this unique forest is endangered, according to CFI.<\/div>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\"> A <a href=\"https:\/\/forestsinternational.org\/announcing-the-forgotten-forest-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media release<\/a> announcing the Forgotten Forests campaign says that \"scientists have affirmed what Indigenous communities already knew \u2014 that most of the Wabanaki forest has been drastically altered.\"<\/div>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\r\n\r\n \"The small remnants of this forest that remain intact today are often on hilltops and in hard-to-access ravines, where forest clearing could not easily reach.\"<\/div>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\r\n\r\n For more on this story, CHMA spoke to Craig Tupper, CFI's forest program manager.<\/div>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\r\n\r\n Tupper and his colleagues have been searching for remnants of the Wabanaki Forest \u2014 usually found in corners of larger properties \u2014 lining up sales agreements with landowners.<\/div>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\r\n\r\n The group also plans to purchase and restore areas that have already been harvested, \"actively managing younger forests back to their full ecological potential to augment their ability to sequester carbon and adapt to climate change.\"<\/div>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\r\n\r\n <strong>CHMA's David Gordon Koch asked Tupper about efforts to locate those remnants of the Wabanaki forest:<\/strong><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community Forests International, a non-profit based in Sackville, has launched a fundraising campaign to purchase and restore 2,500 acres of forests in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. \u00a0 The Wabanaki Forest, also called the Acadian Forest, historically spans the Maritime provinces, the Gasp\u00e9 Peninsula and parts of New England. \u00a0 It includes a mix 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