The Nature Conservancy of Canada is confident it can raise the money needed to preserve almost a thousand acres of land on the Bruce Peninsula.
Program Manager John Grant says the Cabot Head property at the tip of the Peninsula will cost close to a million dollars — much of which is coming from the provincial and federal governments.
The Conservancy needs to come up with 135 thousand dollars — but they’re about 80 thousand shy of that — and need to raise it in less than two weeks.
Grant says they’ve got until October 20th but he says they’re confident some big donors will come through in time.
He says the land takes in the east side of the Georgian Bay shoreline, part of the Niagara Escarpment and most of the shoreline around Gillies Lake.
He says the Peninsula is one of the highest priorities in Canada identified by the Nature Conservancy as being a critical sight for preservation of habitat.
The group already owns about two thousand acres and will hand over this thousand acre parcel to Ontario Parks once it acquires the property.
That would protect it from development, logging and anything else that might negatively impact the ecosystem.
Grant says the acreage is home to many rare and unusual species of both plants and animals including the Massassauga rattle snake and several migratory birds.
For more information or to help in the fundraising efforts go online to www.natureconservancy.ca