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Appalachian Corridor is asking for the local communities’ help to raise the required funding to protect Mount Foster in perpetuity. …

A local business owner lends a hand to a threatened bird species: the Chimney Swift. Appalachian Corridor got in touch with the owner of Dunham Brewery since the chimney is used as a nesting or resting site by the birds. Once the Dunham Brewery was aware of the unlikely tenants, the business owner has pledged to protect the chimney for the birds’ use.

Appalachian Corridor and Conservation Espace Nature Shefford (CENS) are pleased to announce the protection of nearly 41 hectares (ha) in the Bromont-Shefford corridor, a high priority wildlife corridor. This newly protected natural area brings to more than 13,500 ha the network protected by Appalachian Corridor and its partners in the Appalachian region of Southern Quebec.

In May 2018, Appalachian Corridor announced the installation of wildlife crossings for turtles and other small animals in Bolton-Est in cooperation with the ministère des Transports du Québec et le ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs. This area had been documented by Appalachian Corridor as a hotspot for turtle collisions, including species listed as threatened in Quebec or Canada.

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ppalachian Corridor celebrates its 15th anniversary.  At the origin of the organization, three nature lovers – ecologist Louise Gratton, conservation biologist Francine Hone and the late Terri Monahan, project manager. These three women created and implemented an ambitious conservation project to protect the natural corridor in the Appalachians of southern Quebec. What was then called the Appalachian Corridor Project came to being in response to growing pressures on the territory.

We announce that an agreement has been reached with the land developers of the Mount Foster real estate project in Bolton-Ouest. For Appalachian Corridor, the agreement meets the requests made by the organization and the population: to ensure connectivity with adjacent large forest blocks, to gain the largest conservation area possible, to offer public access to the summit while allowing real estate development, with as little ecological impact as possible. With this agreement, the project will secure 211 hectares of land in perpetuity, meaning more than three-quarters of the project area.

Appalachian Corridor is pleased to announce the protection of 92 hectares (227 acres) of land in Saint-Étienne-de-Bolton. This land features a remarkable ecological diversity and its protection brings to more than 13,300 hectares the total area protected by private owners on the territory where Appalachian Corridor and its partners focus their efforts.

Appalachian Corridor is proud to have contributed to the installation of a crossing structure for turtles and other small animals on the section of Route 245 that crosses Peasley Pond in Bolton-Est in partnership with Quebec’s ministère des Transports, de la Mobilité durable et de l’Électrification des transports (MTMDET) and ministère de la Faune, des Forêts et des Parcs (MFFP).

Appalachian Corridor joins the Canadian Land Trusts Working Committee and greets the Government of Canada’s commitment to nature. Throughout Canada, critical conservation work is being done on local and regional scales by the country’s land trusts.