{"id":8426,"date":"2026-05-27T19:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=8426"},"modified":"2026-05-27T19:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:34:08","slug":"505-ha-of-crown-lands-in-the-backlands-under-consideration-for-formal-protection-feedback-sought-27may2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=8426","title":{"rendered":"505 ha of Crown lands in the Backlands under consideration for formal protection, feedback sought 27May2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8428\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/c2ac6871cb8d4729845d5bae821e3395\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8428\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8428\" src=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-27-at-7.40.10-PM-300x189.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-27-at-7.40.10-PM-300x189.png 300w, https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-27-at-7.40.10-PM-1024x645.png 1024w, https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-27-at-7.40.10-PM-768x484.png 768w, https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-27-at-7.40.10-PM.png 1477w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View <a href=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/c2ac6871cb8d4729845d5bae821e3395\">Protected Areas Consultation<\/a> for a description of the lands under consideration for protection,\u00a0 maps and access to a form to provide feedback<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.novascotia.ca\/en\/2026\/05\/27\/new-nature-reserve-announced-more-land-water-protected-nova-scotia\">News Release<\/a> issued today, the NS Gov: Environment and Climate Change announced protection of &#8220;836 hectares of Nova Scotia\u2019s land and water, and 5.2 kilometres of its coastline&#8221; AND opening of consultation on\u00a0 &#8220;13 proposed new or expanded wilderness areas and nature reserves&#8221;, those including &#8220;<strong>Herring Cove Backlands Wilderness Area, Halifax Regional Municipality (new, 505 hectares)<\/strong>&#8220;,<\/p>\n<p>A link is given to the <a href=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/c2ac6871cb8d4729845d5bae821e3395\">Protected Areas Consultation<\/a> which takes place beginning today (May 27) and continues to July 28, 2026. Citizens are asked to &#8220;review the information and maps&#8230; and provide comments before July 28, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>It is surely very good news!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a News Release issued today, the NS Gov: Environment and Climate Change announced protection of &#8220;836 hectares of Nova Scotia\u2019s land and water, and 5.2 kilometres of its coastline&#8221; AND opening of consultation on\u00a0 &#8220;13 proposed new or expanded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=8426\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15,3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-conservation","category-parks-and-protected-areas","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8426"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8437,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426\/revisions\/8437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}