Proposed Reserves

»  Ripple Pond

Though small in size, the proposed Ripple Pond Reserve boasts a wealth of natural riches. Its "fog forest" provides excellent habitat for globally rare lichen. As well, this area features an important salmon river, the Colinet, and some of the best lynx habitat remaining on the province's Avalon Peninsula.....

Proposed Ripple Pond Ecological Reserve

»  Great Northern Peninsula Eastern Forests

One of Newfoundland's priceless gems exists on the Great Northern Peninsula Forests or "Forests of the Rock". The area that runs North of the Main River to South of the Cloud River is the largest stretch of undisturbed old growth boreal forest on the island of Newfoundland.....

Proposed Great Northern Peninsula Forests

»  Main River

The Main River is no ordinary river. Designated as a Canadian Heritage River, the Main River watershed is home to one of the most unusual boreal forest ecosystems in the world. Balsam fir grow up to three times their normal age, up to 260 years old!......

Proposed Main River Reserve

»  Mealy Mountains

The Mealy Mountains rise dramatically from the shores of Lake Melville in southeastern Labrador. Reaching heights of more than one kilometre, they are an island of arctic tundra surrounded by boreal forests and coastal seascapes. Different natural landscapes blend in a mosaic of plateaux, lakes, rivers & waterfalls, coastal plains, wetlands and deep forests....

Proposed Mealy Mountains National Park

»  Lac Joseph - Atikonak

Labrador, or “The Big Land” as it is affectionately known, is a place of immense scale, of mountains, lakes & rivers, of bear, wolves and caribou. Lac Joseph is its essence, its heart. Lac Joseph and Atikonak are its last large ground - moraine lakes, and the Lac Joseph herd is Western Labrador's endangered caribou herd.....

Proposed Lac Joseph - Atikonak Wilderness Reserve

Canada's boreal contains 35% of the world's wetlands, where between 12-14 million ducks annually breed. Our country's boreal wetlands provide migratory habitat for 75% of North America's ducks.