SNBRA enjoys being involved with local communities. Here are some pictures from Summer 2010. They showcase just how much we enjoy being a part of the Southwest Nova Biosphere Reserve community! For pictures from Summer 2011 click here
For more details on these projects and more please visit Our Projects page
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- Middleton Day Camp’s Butterfly Garden
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- Bridgetown Day Camp’s Butterfly Garden
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- Lawrencetown Day Camp’s Butterfly Garden
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- Lawrencetown Day Camp’s Butterfly Garden
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- Lawrencetown Day Camp kids are such great helpers!
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- Lockeport Day Camp’s Butterfly Garden
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- Shelburne Day Camp’s Butterfly Garden
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- Jeff Bonazza, community outreach coordinator, helping plant a butterfly garden at White Point Beach Resort
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- White Point Beach Resort Butterfly Garden
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- A Monarch Caterpillar on one of our milkweed plants
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- Monarch Chrysalis
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- Species at Risk Outreach Table in Bridgetown with MTRI
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- MTRI-SNBRA Table at the Bridgetown B.A.S.H
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- SNBRA visits the Keji Seaside. Doug Smith leading us on a search for Piping plovers
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- Beautiful Keji Seaside White Sand Beaches!
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- A lagoon in the Keji Seaside
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- Green crabs are an invasive species in Nova Scotia. Efforts are currently in place to remove them from the Keji Seaside to avoid ecosystem degradation
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- Parks Canada employee, Jenna Bent, with Summer 2010 Outreach Coordinator, Jeff Bonazza
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- Roughly 1000 green crabs are caught daily in this Keji Seaside lagoon
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- Our canoes on a clam flat in the seaside
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- Chris McCarthy, Parks Canada employee, digging for soft shell clams
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- Soft Shell Clam
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- The Invasive Green Crab
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- CTV live on location in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia where Live @ 5 showcased the wonders of Southwest Nova Scotia
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- Maeghan Power Noble being interviewed by CTV’s Star Dobson about the SNBR
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- Maeghan Power Noble explaining the importance of balance between people and nature within the SNBR
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- The Southwest Nova Biosphere is a place for everyone to enjoy!
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- Our new Southwest Nova Biosphere Reserve T-shirts!
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- Cannon at Fort Anne, Annapolis Royal, over looking the Annapolis Basin
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- Fort Anne National Historic Site is the oldest National Historic Site in Canada
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- Stairs to climb up the star-shaped wall at Fort Anne, Annapolis Royal
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- Fort Anne, Annapolis Royal
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- Jeff, Maegan and Bob looking at Piping plovers in Ragged Harbour
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- Look carefully, do you see the Piping Plover?
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- Please adhere to Piping Plover signage on our beaches!
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- Port Royal Mi’kmaq Interpretation
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- Port Royal Historical Interpretation.
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- Port Royal Historical Interpretation- showing us how the Acadians made shingles for the fort
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- A Variety of furs at Port Royal National Historic Site
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- A Variety of furs at Port Royal National Historic Site
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- Stopping to smell the flowers at Port Royal National Historic Site
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- Blanding’s Turtle Hatchlings at Oaklawn Farm Zoo
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- Our Blanding’s Turtle Awareness set up at the Zoo!
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- Is it real or fake? This is a model of a 22 year old Blanding’s Turtle. Thanks Species at Risk team for the life-like model!
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- Blanding’s Turtle Hatchlings at Oaklawn Farm Zoo!
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- Blanding’s Turtle Gymnastics!
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- Blanding’s Turtles eggs that were kept in incubation at Oaklawn Farm Zoo as part as concervation efforts. You can see some are hatching!
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- Blanding’s Turtle Hatchlings
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- Leslie Saunders, community outreach coordinator, with a Blanding’s Turtle hatchling
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- Blanding’s Turtle Hatchling
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- Blanding’s Turtle Hatchlings
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- Jeff Bonazza, community outreach coordinator, with a Blanding’s Turtle hatchling
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- Michael the Blanding’s Turtle!
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- Blanding’s Turtle Push Ups. Look at the Yellow speckled shell :)
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- Lawrencetown Day Camp at Oaklawn Farm Zoo with Michael the Blanding’s Turtle
