🌲 Big welcome to our newest coalition members! 🌿
Save Our Old Forests (SOOF) - saveouroldforests.ca and The Dirt Gang - thedirtgang.ca have joined the Coalition - now 32 groups strong!
United to protect old-growth forests & this irreplaceable area. Together, we're stronger. 💚
#savesandylake
Protecting nature OUTWEIGHS profits from exploiting it. 75% of the time, nature is the better investment.
Sandy Lake is a vital economic asset.
#SaveSandyLake #EcosystemServices #NovaScotia
Nova Scotia has <1% old-growth forest left. Some is right here at Sandy Lake, Bedford.
We also protect the new-growth forest, recovering from a 2013 clear-cut. It supports the watershed and will become old-growth one day.
Both are vital. Both need protection before it's too late.
#SaveSandyLake
Let's talk numbers. The proposed Sandy Lake park is a biodiversity haven:
✅ 117 bird species
✅ 24 Species At Risk/Concern
✅ Rare old-growth forest
This is one of HRM's last great refuges. We need housing, but not by destroying what we can't replace.
Speak up.
#SaveSandyLake #ProtectNS
Sandy Lake's inconvenient truth:
Water quality is at a tipping point. Watershed development will trigger a domino effect, damaging the entire ecosystem.
Reject the fantasy of harmless lakeside building.
Tell your MLA: choose the right path, not the easy one.
#SaveSandyLake
After the open house, a quiet moment. 🍃
The best way to connect to the #SaveSandyLake cause is to be here. Walk the trails, listen to the leaves. This park is a prescription for well-being.
Today, just go enjoy your park. Breathe it in. Remember what we protect.
The real story from the Sandy Lake open house. The decision-makers were no-shows, and crucial info was silenced. See the risks and how to fight back before the Dec 3 deadline. sandylakecoalition.ca/take-action
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#SaveSandyLake
There are so many ways YOU can be a part of the campaign to Save Sandy Lake.
Join the movement and take action to protect this important greenspace, a safe haven from the hustle and bustle of the city and for keystone species to thrive.
sandylakecoalition.ca/take-action
#SaveSandyLake
Did you know that you contribute to local conservation efforts and help collect important data for Sandy Lake as a citizen scientist with iNaturalist?
Every observation can help make a difference, so be sure to download the app and bring it on your next hike through Sandy Lake Park!
#SaveSandyLake
Let’s talk traffic!
The proposed development around Sandy Lake will make things much worse, especially along Hammonds Plains Rd.
People, air, water, and wildlife in the area would suffer as a result of the overloading of Hammonds Plains Road.
Learn more: sandylakecoalition.ca/why
#SaveSandyLake
For decades, the Sackville Rivers Association has worked to restore wild salmon to the Sackville River. Tim Houston's authoritarian kleptocracy has given itself the power to destroy it again. #SaveSandyLake
Too bad #Halifax didn't have this. We could see all the wetlands we've been destroying and are about to destroy so developers can pad their portfolios with more sprawl that we can't afford. #SaveSandyLake www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
