Boots on the trail
Shorebird Reserve and Interpretive Centre at Johnson’s Mills
Soak in the breeze and celebrate 25 years of shorebird spectacles on the New Brunswick coast (page 6). Learn more, plan your visit and view daily tide times here.
SUMMER 2025
Our
shared future
Explore additional content for the summer 2025 issue of the Nature Conservancy of Canada Magazine
Backpack essentials
Framing nature’s wonders
Nature photographer and videographer Fernando Lessa’s camera captures hope for the future (page 7). Take a look at some of his stunning video work.
Feature story
Common ground, shared future
The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) is working with communities for conservation outcomes that benefit the people and places where nature thrives (page 8). Learn more about Wabano Aki (meaning “Tomorrows Land”) and Bectell Ranch projects.
For millennia, grasslands have been a place of growth and healing, and the story of Ken Norquay and Gordon Beddome is a testament to this power. Join us and hear how this Anishinaabe cultural support worker and cattle producer got to know one another, and how their mutual generosity and connection to the prairie have made amazing things possible for their community.
A note: This episode deals with history that may be difficult to listen to. Take care as you listen.
NCC has partnered with the Bectell family to conserve a 323-hectare property in southwestern Alberta, near Police Outpost Provincial Park. The collaboration aims to preserve both the natural heritage and ranching traditions of the region, allowing the Bectell’s cow-calf ranching operation and sustainable grazing practices to continue. The newly conserved area, featuring extensive prairie grasslands, supports diverse wildlife habitats, including species listed under Canada’s Species at Risk Act, and is part of NCC’s larger Prairie Grasslands Action Plan to protect more than 500,000 hectares by 2030.
Force for nature
Rooted in ranching
Avery Gertner’s love of nature was nurtured on her family’s ranch set in the rolling hills of southern Alberta (page 16).
Advancing conservation
Advancing conservation in Canada
NCC is advancing conservation science to build resilient landscapes where nature and people thrive (page 19). Learn more about how this work has led to a return of grizzly bears in Darkwoods and get to know some of the conservation scientists of tomorrow that NCC supports and trains through the Weston Family Conservation Science Fellowship Program.
Meet all the Weston Family Conservation Science Fellows and their work in this video series.