Northern Green Mountains Key Wildlife Linkage

Through a grassroots and welcoming community-based coalition, Cold Hollow to Canada seeks to maintain and build enduring partnerships to protect and steward our corner of the Northern Forest for people and wildlife for generations to come.

 The Wabanaki Forest (New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Canada)

Community Forests International, in partnership with the Wolastoqey Nation in New Brunswick (WNNB), Mi’gmawe’l tplu’taqnn Inc. (MTI), Fort Folly First Nation (FFFN) Habitat Recovery, Passamaquoddy Recognition Group Inc. (PRGI), and Nature Trust of New Brunswick (Nature Trust), propose to create a stewardship fund to provide an ongoing, sustainable source of maintenance funds to support culturally-appropriate and climate-focused stewardship of jointly conserved lands for the next seven generations.

South Quebec

Conseil régional de l’environnement Chaudière-Appalaches (CRECA), partnership with Conseil régional de l’environnement de l’Estrie and Conseil régional de l’environnement du Centre-du-Québec, will use a concerted inter-regional approach to identify core habitat and corridors in a high priority connectivity area in Canada and ultimately develop a connectivity Master plan, including a prioritization of conservation actions and funding possibilities.

Nova Scotia, Canada

Ecology Action Centre will pilot its CoastCheck project, a community based citizen-science coastal monitoring initiative, to better understand how and why our coasts are changing so we may work to safeguard them for future generations.

 Green Mountains of Vermont to the Hudson Highlands of New York

Housatonic Valley Association, in partnership with the Staying Connected Initiative, Litchfield Hills Greenprint Collaborative, and The Nature Conservancy, will integrate place-based community science with high-level connectivity modeling to inform strategic land conservation and restore terrestrial connectivity.

Eastern Quebec, Ottawa and St. Lawrence Rivers, Nova Scotia, and northeast U.S. Tribal territories

Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation, in partnership with St. Francis Xavier University, Canadian Wildlife Federation, SUNY ESF, River Institute, and the Centre for Evidenced-Informed Conservation, will develop an Indigenous-led transboundary strategy to reconnect migratory fish, especially American Eel, to their historic habitats, grounded in partnership with Indigenous knowledge holders and leaders throughout the region to share challenges, strategies, and goals.

Coastal areas of New Brunswick

Nature NB, in partnership with Anqotum Resource Management, Birds Canada, Nature Trust of New Brunswick, Nature Conservancy of Canada, will expand their Healthy Coasts NB program to protect species of conservation concern, promote community resilience to climate change, and support a coastal way of life.

Acadia National Park and Sipayik and Passamaquoddy reservation lands

The Schoodic Institute, in partnership with Maine Coast Heritage Trust, Sipayik Climate Resilience Committee, Friends of Acadia, and The Nature Conservancy, will develop a roadmap to support the leadership and engagement of the Wabanaki people in the Maine Tidal March Restoration Network—a state-wide effort to restore salt marsh biodiversity, provide carbon storage and coastal protection, and protect Wabanaki cultural resources.