Nature Conservancy of Canada announces new program director for Newfoundland and Labrador
Piers Evans of St. John’s joins private land conservation charity
The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) in Newfoundland and Labrador has a new program director in charge of its private land protection and stewardship activities across the province. Since 1996, the charitable land trust has completed over 30 conservation projects, protecting nearly 14,000 acres of wetlands, forests and coastal areas across the island of Newfoundland.
The charity has unveiled Piers Evans of St. John’s, who holds both a master’s of science degree and a bachelor’s of science degree from Memorial University. His career background is diverse.
Evans was a municipal sustainability coordinator for the Conservation Corps NL’s Municipal Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Project in the Conception Bay North area and a climate change coordinator with the Town of Portugal Cove-St. Philip’s. He also served as a project coordinator with the Northeast Avalon Atlantic Coastal Action Program.
Evans says he looks forward to building on NCC’s work across the province, conserving important areas of plant and animal diversity and for people to enjoy.
NCC has worked with people and communities to successfully establish nature reserves across Newfoundland. From the Grand Codroy River Valley and Sandy Point in Bay St. George, Robinson’s River, Barachois Brook and Reidville on the west coast, to Lloyd’s River in central and to Freshwater Bay, Maddox Cove and the Salmonier River Valley on the Avalon Peninsula.
NCC also played a constructive role with the King George IV Ecological Reserve, Burnt Cape Ecological Reserve and Lundrigan’s Marsh Stewardship Area in St. John’s. NCC also led the creation of the Labrador Nature Atlas.
“I look forward to continuing the stewardship of our beautiful sites across the island so that we can manage and care for them in the best manner possible,” Evans said. “I am also eager to engage with members of the communities where we work to see how we can help them achieve their aspirations of conserving the lands for today and future generations.”
Evans is also volunteer vice-chair of the Environmental Education Commission in St. John’s. The commission is responsible for the operation of the Environmental Education Centre at Echo Pond.
The NCC office is located at 103-136 Crosbie Road, Suite 103 in St. John’s. This office space is being generously donated by Rob Crosbie, of Crosbie Group, who has volunteered with NCC for over 10 years.
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The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) is the nation's leading not-for-profit, private land conservation organization, working to protect our most important natural areas and the species they sustain. Since 1962, NCC and its partners have helped to protect 14 million hectares (35 million acres), coast to coast to coast, with more than 32,979 hectares (81,494 acres) in the Atlantic provinces. To learn more, visit natureconservancy.ca.
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