Stephenson says she hopes her group can pay off legal fees and loans within the next year.
The conservancy will then will start looking to save more islands.
Pendleton and Simpson islands are home to some rare birds of prey, moose and deer.
 
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  e clout. This has nothing to do with 'saving' land or 'rare species' and EVERYTHING to do with CONTROLLING more and more land. The cheaper they can buy it now, the more they will want for parts of it later, when THEY develop it or offer landlord/tenant leases for oil or gas or timber. What's called a 'land assembly' in this article is the mosaic acquisition of land until TNC has unbroken corridors and can control -- and intends to control -- human movement.)

 
August 6, 2004
 
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St. John, New Brunswick, Canada - The Nature Conservancy of Canada has launched a public campaign to raise $225,000 to help save more New Brunswick islands from development.

 

The money will be used to pay the costs of acquiring Pendleton and Simpson islands in Passamaquoddy Bay.
 

Linda Stephenson, with the Nature Conservancy of Canada, says this is just the beginning of an ongoing land assembly, which also includes Nova Scotia.

 

"In 1978 a Sheep Island in Mahone Bay sold for $18,900. That same seven-acre island was sold in 2003 for $320,000. So, we want to move while we still have the opportunity in the Passamaquody Bay so that an island that we might be able to acquire now for, say, $200,000, we get while it's affordable and aren't faced to pass on it five years from now because it's $1 million."

 

Stephenson says she hopes her group can pay off legal fees and loans within the next year.
The conservancy will then will start looking to save more islands.
Pendleton and Simpson islands are home to some rare birds of prey, moose and deer.
 
http://nb.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=nb_natureconservancy20040806