Check out our new video on Canada’s newest addition to the national parks system, the 3000 hectare Pituamkek National Park Reserve on Prince Edward Island, to be co-managed by the Mi'kmaq and Parks Canada. See an interview featuring Chief Darlene Bernard (elected chief of the Lennox Island First Nation for 18 years, until June 2025) by the Endangered Ecosystem Alliance’s Ken Wu.
The new national park reserve contains spectacular coastal wetlands, vegetated sand dunes, and old-growth forests, and is being expanded over time with various land acquisitions. $71.9 million has been provided by the federal government to the First Nation over 12 years for the co-management, monitoring, stewardship, and protection of the ecosystems in the park with jobs for the local people.