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Help Protect Wild Spaces Collaboration
Help Protect Wild Spaces in Your Yard, Neighbourhood, Community or Across the Province
in Collaboration with
Nature Champion: Hope Swinimer, Hope for Wildlife
Public Launch at Hope for Wildlife - August 29th (12:00 - 4:00)

Protecting wild spaces in Nova Scotia begins with a deeper recognition that our forests, shorelines, wetlands, and fields are not separate from us - they shape our health, our communities, and our future. As pressures from development, climate change, and biodiversity loss continue to grow, the responsibility to care for these places cannot rest with a few - it must be shared by many. The opportunity is right in front of us: through everyday choices, local leadership, and collective action, each of us can play a meaningful role in sustaining the natural systems and wild spaces that sustain us.
Hope for Wild Spaces embraces two places where nature really needs our care:
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Protecting and restoring our wild places - the forests, rivers, wetlands, coastlines, and habitats that sustain biodiversity and provides more protection for wildlife.
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Creating more room for nature where people live; where human and wildlife connect - in our yards, neighbourhoods, schools, workplaces, parks, and communities.
Here is a Clear Actions You Can Take:

Hope # 1: Find One Space You Can Make Wilder - Take Action and Make It Wilder.
If every person restored a little bit of natural habitat where they live - either in their year, neighbourhood or community - together we could create a web of wild spaces across
Nova Scotia.
Take Action: In Your Personal Yard, Neighbourhood or Community
Capturing Wild Spaces Success Stories
When you take action to protect or enhance a wild space, tell us about it so we can
share the success story with other Nova Scotians.
Hope # 2: Get Involved with Nature Champion Organizations Protecting Wild Spaces
Explore the mandate and activities of one of the organization below - help find ways to contribute to making room for more wild spaces in the province.

Hope # 2: Protected Areas
Help Advocate for the 20% Protected Areas
in Nova Scotia
by 2030.
Protect More Land Survey
Protected Area Survey
Take Action:

Hope # 3: Keep It Wild
Keep it Wild
Citizens Step Up To
Fill The Gaps in Protected Area
Take Action:
Defending Nova Scotia’s Protected Areas System
Hope # 4: Be a Voice for Nature
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Join a local group that’s championing a community-proposed protected area in your area.
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Schedule a meeting with your MLA. Urge them to take action to meet the 20% by 2030 commitment (Not sure where to start? Click here).
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Email Minister Halman (Minister.Environment@novascotia.ca), Minister Rushton (mindnr@novascotia.ca) and your local MLA (find your MLA’s contact information here). Let them know you’re counting on them to legally protect these community-proposed protected areas!
Hope # 5: Institutional and Landsczpe-scale Collaborations
This stage expands conservation efforts beyond individual advocacy by aligning with key land trusts, forestry cooperatives, and regional coalitions.
By building strategic partnerships with future network allies, this action aims to pool resources, scale up land acquisition, and secure long-term, legally protected connected ecosystems across the province.
Stay tuned as we engage these organizations.







