{"id":7424,"date":"2015-07-14T10:15:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T14:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.canadahelps.org\/?p=7424"},"modified":"2024-11-01T10:15:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T14:15:08","slug":"conserve-steward-and-educate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadahelps.org\/en\/giving-life\/featured-series\/conserve-steward-and-educate\/","title":{"rendered":"Conserve, steward, and educate"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post was provided by Jessica Bradford, Communications Coordinator at Nature Trust of New Brunswick, as part of our environment series.<\/em><\/p>\n

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A bald eagle soars over the Upper St. John River region of New Brunswick.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Like our\u00a0<\/em>neighbours at the Nova Scotia Nature Trust<\/a>, our natural Canadian biodiversity is abundant in every corner and crevasse of our home and native land \u2013 and there is no exception in New Brunswick.<\/p>\n

Since our start in 1987, our mission and mandate at the Nature Trust of New Brunswick is based on three pillars:<\/strong> conserve, steward, and educate<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 As a registered charitable organization dedicated to conserving the province\u2019s ecologically significant landscapes, the Nature Trust of New Brunswick has conserved over 6,000 acres of land (equaling to 2,400 hectares) in more than 40 beautiful and diverse nature preserves in New Brunswick. Our preserves range from the Bay of Fundy islands, to mature riverine forests; extensive salt marshes, to urban wetlands brimming with biodiversity.\u00a0 The quantity and quality of natural diversity is overwhelming across the entire province, and we at the Nature Trust of New Brunswick not only work to protect such invaluable diversity, we also work to educate our community when it comes to preserving our precious natural environment.<\/p>\n

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Nature Trust of New Brunswick brings the classroom outdoors.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Engagement through education <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Just as crucial as our conservation mandate, our mission to educate our community has become increasingly important to convey the necessity of conservation to our wider community.\u00a0 As part of our mission to educate, we not only teach the essentials, we also work to instill a sense of responsibility and conservation ethic to our young and impressionable environmental stewards of the future who walk through our doors.\u00a0 With this goal in mind, the Nature Trust has creatively engaged all people, both young and old, to learn of the importance of stewardship.<\/p>\n

With a particular focus on our young stewards, we work to actively engage students through initiatives such as our Youth in Nature project, a program which facilitates art workshops on nature preserves, or our Power of Nature project, a program which allows young stewards to actively take part in nature preservation.\u00a0 We also educate our young stewards through our one-of-a-kind Nature Sessions program, a program which films our students in music videos alongside popular local musicians on nature preserves just like the one featured below.\u00a0 It\u2019s a fun and creative way to get kids out into the great outdoors while engaging with nature and music.<\/p>\n