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Sarah Lavallée is graduating with a special honour as she was selected as the Athenaeum and Acadia Alumni Student of the Year for 2022. This award recognizes a student who has excelled at Acadia and embodies the Acadia spirit. Sarah fully immersed...
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The Harriet Irving Botanical Gardens were recently featured on CBC News. A journalism team visited the Gardens last week as they were preparing a story on the benefits of planting native species in home gardens this season. Melanie Priesnitz, Conservation Horticulturlist says, “planting...
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If you’re walking through the research wing at the Irving Centre you’re almost guaranteed to run into Kevindi Gunasekara (BSc Biology 2021). Kevindi works full time as a lab technician for Dr. Kirk Hillier and in addition to that role she works...
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Mark your calendars for Saturday June 4th (rain date June 11th) for our first Native Plant Sale in 2 years! We’ve missed you and are so excited to get back to selling native plants to new friends. Watch our website and social...
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Participate in the #2022CityNatureChallenge between April 29th to May 2nd to help showcase the Annapolis Valley’s biodiversity! Initiated by the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and the California Academy of Sciences in 2016, the City Nature Challenge (CNC) quickly became an international...
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In early 2022, the Nature Conservancy of Canada purchased nearly 1,100 hectares of old growth and mature forests, wetlands, and lakes in Upper Ohio, Nova Scotia after pulling together money from fundraising, private donors, federal and provincial governments, and the United States...
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If you’re a regular walker of Acadia’s Woodland Trails, you may have noticed our newest installation. There are now two mailboxes containing logbooks mounted on the entrance signs at the Park Street and Westwood Avenue trail entrances. We hope hikers will feel...
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Christianne Hagerman is on a mission to save the iconic Hemlock trees in the popular Kentville Ravine Park. The Acadia Alumni (BSc Biology, 2019) has been interested in the environment her entire life. When asked about her passion Christiane references an impactful...
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Allie Fournier clearly remembers learning about the distressing plight of Nova Scotia’s bat population at an Acadia event called “Bat Tales” in 2013. The event, organized by students as part of Acadia’s annual Sustainability Week, brought attention to White Nose Syndrome and...
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This week, Dr. Mark Mallory and Dr. Jennifer Provencher of Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) assembled a team of researchers to dissect over 175 Arctic seabirds harvested from various Nunavut locations in the Irving Centre labs. The specimens were collected by Inuit hunters...
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