Today is #WorldWetlandsDay! 🌾.These ecosystems play a critical role in supporting biodiversity, storing carbon, providing filtration, & mitigating the impacts of stormwater. To learn more about our #Wetland work & how to get involved, check out our newsletter at our website!

🌊Our #Coastal & #Marine team has preliminary results summarizing the fall 2022 Ghost Gear season! This includes at-sea retrieval & and shoreline cleanup activities in southwest NS and Cape Breton. Project funded by @FishOceansCAN. Contact zora@coastalaction.org for more details.

Our #EnvironmentalEducation team is gearing up for camp season & buzzing with excitement!🐞 Staff are creating sparks 🔥 with new ideas, & hope you will bee 🐝 there this summer to see the magic 🧙‍♀️ of it all! Contact julia@coastalaction.org for more on our #SummerCamps.

The deadline is approaching to apply for our #Coastal & #Marine Team Lead position. Apply here:

📚 Our Environmental Education team recognizes that not all education takes place in the classroom and we celebrate education by providing opportunities for children to appreciate the values of nature. What better way to learn about the environment than to experience it? 🏕

🌾Head over to our #MahoneBayLivingShoreline website: to learn how we’re repurposing Christmas trees to protect the shoreline. Project supported by @IntactInsurance, @arborday, and @TD_Canada. For more info, contact jordan@coastalaction.org.

🔔 Job Alert! We’re looking to fill our #Coastal & #Marine Team Lead position. 🌊The successful candidate will lead the team’s programs and contracts including marine debris, microplastics, and coastal wetlands. Apply here: Deadline: January 30 2023.

⚓️ At the end of 2022, our #GhostGear team visited Neil’s Harbour, an area hit hard by Hurricane Fiona. ⛈ Our team removed >2100 kg of debris, including 102 lobster traps and 741 ft of rope. For more, contact zora@coastalaction.org. This project is funded by @FishOceansCAN.

🌲Our #EnvironmentalEducation team ended 2022 with a GO family session! This session was all about welcoming parents to GO Crew to show them more about the program. For more info about GO Crew, contact kaia@coastalaction.org.

🌾When selecting plants for the #LivingShoreline, we made sure the plants were adapted to live on the coast. Thank you to CBWES & @tcadaptations for their expertise. This project is supported by @IntactInsurance Foundation, @arborday, and @TD_Canada.

🌲 Last week our New Germany Trailblazers made bird feeders! 🐦 A quick & exciting activity to learn more about what birds eat. To make a bird feeder at home, all you need is a toilet paper roll, nut or seed butter, & birdseed!

💚 It's #GivingTuesday! When you donate today, CanadaHelps will automatically add an extra 1% to your gift. Donations help support our #EnvironmentalEducation initiatives for kids & youth, like the #Trailblazers outdoor program!.Donate here:

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Our #Watersheds team has been working to improve fish habitat in the #LaHaveRiver Watershed, & recently completed the installation of several digger logs on a tributary. @nspowerinc engaged us on this exciting project as part of their hydro redevelopment program. 💧

🗓 This Saturday! 🦞Our #GhostGear team is completing #ShorelineCleanups in Cape Breton to assist with Hurricane Fiona relief, alongside community partners @cbemnetwork & @ACAPCB. This is project is funded by @FishOceansCAN. Stay tuned for ghost gear highlights from this fall!

🍂 We’re excited to be back @ @RossFarmMuseum for Food Futures & Histories, our interactive curriculum-linked program. Thnx to funding from the Dept of Education & Early Childhood Development, we’re offering the program to all interested grade 7 classes! julia@coastalaction.org

RT @cstfoundation: @coastalaction of Nova Scotia works to restore and protect the environment through research, education, action, and comm….

RT @TakeAquaAction: T minus 2 days to register for the AquaHacking Atlantic Canada Challenge! . @smuhalifax @atl….

This fall we launched our new 3-year project - Protecting Coastal Wetlands in NS through Stewardship & Collaboration! 🌾 Working with partners, we will:. ⚒ Build capacity & create an equipment bank.📊 Collect data.☀️ Host workshops . This project is funded by @FishOceansCAN.

RT @ACAPSaintJohn: 🛥️This summer, we collected surface water & sediment samples along the Wolastoq to test for #microplastics. 🔬Samples ha….