Media Coverage
Bob Bancroft on Maritime Noon
On Jan. 24, 2020, two concerned citizens called into CBC’s Maritime Noon (radio program) to discuss the delisting and possible sale of Owls Head Park.
(more…)On Jan. 24, 2020, two concerned citizens called into CBC’s Maritime Noon (radio program) to discuss the delisting and possible sale of Owls Head Park.
(more…)Zack Metcalfe
The Advocate
January 24, 2020
For years now, members of the conservation community and even anonymous government employees have expressed to me their worry that exactly this would happen – that years of lethargy from our provincial government would result, finally, in their abandoning the Parks and Protected Areas Plan.
(more…)Marine biologist Dr. Kristina Boerder explains that Eastern Shore marine ecosystems and salt marshes are providing “important ecosystem services” that benefit humans and nature.
Dear Premier Stephen McNeil,
WWF-Canada is concerned with the delisting of Owls Head Provincial Park Reserve and calls on the provincial government to stop the sale of public lands at Owls Head and to honour the commitment to Nova Scotians to legally protect this ecologically significant wilderness area.
(more…)Thank you to Steven Gallant for sharing his photos and videos with us.
The first photo faces East, the second faces South, and the third faces West. Please click to enlarge.
(more…)Full Article Here> Posted by Richard BellJanuary 22, 2020 1:54 PMEastern Shore Cooperator What does Owls Head Provincial Park look like? I took a walk there on January 21 to get some on-the-ground photos. Few people have actually walked the land Read more…
Letter to the EditorContributed by Candace StevensonThe Chronicle HeraldJanuary 22, 2020 Is it not ironic that the province is seeking our input on six new protected wilderness areas at the same time as it quietly removed a provincial park from Read more…
Save Little Harbour/Owls Head Nova Scotia from Becoming a Golf Course is a Facebook public discussion group with 900+ members
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(SHIP HARBOUR, NOVA SCOTIA, 15 January 2020) The first community meeting to inform Eastern Shore residents about recent government actions which impact Owl’s Head Provincial Park is scheduled for Sunday 26 January at 2 pm in the Ship Harbour Community Hall. In late December CBC reported that the NS government had secretly de-listed Owl’s Head Park from the province’s Parks and Protected Areas Plan where it has been awaiting final Park designation. There was no public consultation. Our understanding is that sale of the Park to an American developer for golf course(s) is pending.
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