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• Air Force assessing pristine Sable Island as fuel station for rescue helicopters

  The Sable Island National Park Reserve is famous as a wild and windswept island where horses roam freely and large colonies of grey seals live on its extensive beaches.

  Canada

  Mar 26
• Canadian Armed Forces disposes of unexploded ordnance on Sable Island, N.S.

  A Parks Canada employee reported the ordinance — confirmed to be five boxes of 9mm ammunition and some 'smoke markers' commonly used by vessels — at the end of November.

  Features

  Feb 25
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• Ottawa dedicates $682K to Sable Island protection and research

  Located around 300 kilometres southeast of Halifax, Sable Island is home to species like the Sable Island sweat bee, which is found nowhere else on the planet. 

  Canada

  Feb 4
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• Last Sable Island horse in captivity dies at wildlife park in Nova Scotia

  The 30-year-old animal, which did not have a name and was declining in health, was euthanized on the weekend at the Shubenacadie Wildlife Park north of Halifax.

  Canada

  Oct 3, 2019
• Ecology Action Centre’s longtime policy director leaving company

  Mark Butler will finish his role in October.

  Environment

  Mar 28, 2019
• ‘Eeking out a living on this sandbar’: The hard life of a wild Sable Island horse

  A team from the University of Saskatchewan and Parks Canada performed necropsies on more than 30 dead animals during trips to the isolated sandbar about 160 kilometres off Nova Scotia in 2017 and 2018.

  Canada

  Mar 21, 2019
• Ottawa announces partnership agreement with Sable Island Institute

  Parks Canada says the new partnership agreement formalizes its ongoing relationship with the Sable Island Institute, a not-for-profit organization that carries out environmental monitoring, biodiversity surveys and public outreach.

  Canada

  Mar 1, 2019
• Federal Government to fund cleanup of buildings, debris on iconic Sable Island

  Ottawa announced $3.4 million Monday to remove surplus buildings and other debris from Sable Island National Park Reserve, and to design energy measures to reduce fossil fuel consumption.

  Environment

  Feb 11, 2019
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• N.S. energy and mines minister touts Sable Offshore project as an ‘economic success’

  Derek Mombourquette released an opinion piece celebrating the project's benefit to Nova Scotians and looking forward to a future of new offshore oil and gas projects.

  Environment

  Jan 3, 2019
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• N.S. environmental groups call for ban on Sable Island offshore drilling

  The demands are outlined in a petition signed by more than 60,000 people, dropped off at the local office of Halifax MP Andy Fillmore on Thursday.

  Environment

  Dec 13, 2018