The Confederacy of Mainland Mi'kmaq's Mi'kmaw Conservation Group is thrilled to officially announce nearly 1.2 million dollars in funding awarded to our organization by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Coastal Restoration Fund over the next four years. The funds, as part of the Ocean's Protection Plan will help to build capacity in our communities, enhance and restore coastal areas within the Bay of Fundy watershed and the Northumberland Strait, and many other provide wonderful opportunities. “The Department of Fisheries and Ocean’s Coastal Restoration Fund (DFO – CRF) will help the Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq (CMM) focus on building coastal restoration capacity [...]

The Mi'kmaw Conservation Group and our Friends in Cape Breton, Unama'ki Institute of Natural Resources, made the news yesterday in Star Halifax. We're partnered onto a new ecosystem study in the Minas Passage/Minas Basin and Bras D'or Lakes area with Acadia University and Dalhousie University's Ocean Tracking Network. This study is said to be the largest of it's kind in the Maritimes! To read more about it, click here.