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Protesters concerned about endangered moose ordered to take down Digby County blockades
Protesters who've been blocking logging roads in Digby County for weeks to protect what they say is endangered mainland moose habitat have been ordered by a judge to leave.
Protesters block logging road, say endangered moose at risk
Protesters blocking a logging road not far from the Tobeatic Wilderness Area in Digby County want the Department of Lands and Forestry to stop allowing industrial logging in the area.
Annapolis County councillors want moratorium on glyphosate spraying in their area
Opposition to herbicide spraying is growing in Annapolis County where protestors are camping out on land slated to be sprayed and municipal leaders are calling on the province to issue a moratorium on the forestry practice.
Forest fires started by 'machine tracks' prompt calls for temporary ban on logging
Two fires that burned more than a hundred hectares of forest in King County, N.S., last month were started by machinery in the woods, Nova Scotia Environment said.
Old-growth trees cut down to build Highway 103 access road, says group
A group that's trying to protect an area of wilderness about 40 kilometres west of Halifax is angry that the province is allowing a road to be built directly through what they say is old-growth forest.
CBC Investigates
From high overhead, a sobering look at a moose population in deep trouble
Aerial survey results obtained by CBC show the endangered mainland moose is in steep decline in Nova Scotia.
Cutting down trees in old hardwood forest 'scandalous'
Naturalists are pushing back against a plan for a forestry consortium to cut down trees in one of Nova Scotia’s oldest forests.
Inside the big house: Tour the Nova Scotia prison that just turned 50
The Springhill Institution opened on Sept. 30, 1967. It has apartment-style housing, a wood and metal shop, and a type of in-house retreat that is the first of its kind in Canada.
Syrians find comfort — and work — in rural Nova Scotia
Sorting onions on a conveyor belt might not be everyone's idea of a dream job, but for one group of Syrian men it's a way to support their families and live in communities they have grown to love.
Joggins residents question why province made clearcut a nature reserve
A Nova Scotia landowner is frustrated by the province's strategy of conserving forested land after they gave a nature reserve designation to a clearcut area only after all the trees were gone.