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Grow with the flow: How planting helps mitigate floods in the Wolastoq watershed

March 21, 2024

As one of the first colonial settlements in Canada, New Brunswick has had a long history of environmental degradation with ever-worsening floods caused by deforestation, resource extraction and other human activities. This has pushed... Read More

As one of the first colonial settlements in Canada, New Brunswick has had a long history of environmental degradation...
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How nature restoration helps reduce rising flood waters

April 28, 2020

It’s flood season again. Simon Mitchell, WWF-Canada’s Freshwater Lead Specialist, lives steps away from the Saint John River in New Brunswick, so we asked him how our restoration work can help provide nature-based solutions to this... Read More

It’s flood season again. Simon Mitchell, WWF-Canada’s Freshwater Lead Specialist, lives steps away from the Saint John River in...
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Why bad weather keeps me up at night

July 7, 2014

After the catastrophic disasters of 2013 that saw flood waters wipe out communities and ice storms leaving families in the dark for days, bad weather is increasingly becoming something that keeps me up at... Read More

After the catastrophic disasters of 2013 that saw flood waters wipe out communities and ice storms leaving families in...
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Grow with the flow: How planting helps mitigate floods in the Wolastoq watershed

How nature restoration helps reduce rising flood waters

Why bad weather keeps me up at night

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