Citizen Science Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia) is a Facebook Group sponsored by the Save Our Old Forests Association. The purpose of the project is to provide a centralised platform to coordinate and promote Citizen Science workshops, events and presentations throughout Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia). Help identify areas of ecological diversity and maybe even find some hidden old growth forest.
Join Citizen Mi’kma’ki to share photos, learn about upcoming events and get involved!
Interview with Gini Proulx
On a sunny afternoon in late August 2024, Nina Newington met up with Gini Proulx and had a great conversation about citizen science. Gini is a citizen science trailblazer in Southwest Nova Scotia – even before “citizen science” became a thing. Gini shared her stories with Nina and talks passionately about her adventures adventures observing and documenting the natural world from her family’s camp near the Tobeatic and all along the Digby Neck and everything in between!
Interviewer: Nina Newington
Documentation: Haeweon Yi
RESOURCES
Congruent Long-Term Declines in Carbon and Biodiversity Are a Signature of Forest Degradation, Matthew G. Betts, Zhiqiang Yang, John S. Gunn, Sean P. Healey
Link To Article
Natural climate solutions (often tree planting) have been proposed to fix climate change. But how good are managed eastern Canadian forests for sequestering carbon? Over the past 35 years, the forests of New Brunswick, Canada have been losing rather than sequestering carbon, according to a scientific article published today in the peer-reviewed Global Change Biology. This is counter to common popular belief that managed forests are carbon sinks and that tree plantations are good for the climate. The study has implications for how eastern Canadian forests are tallied in Canada’s efforts to reduce climate impacts.