How our work impacts conservation across Canada.
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Where we’re working on the ground from coast to coast.
We need your help to protect our water, wildlife, and wetlands. Here’s how you can make an impact.
New Brunswick
Community pasture helps farmers, cattle and wildlife
Tantramar Grasslands Co-operative partners with organizations like DUC to ensure a healthy future for the land, and everyone who uses it.
Virtual field trips bring nature to the classroom
No longer limited by geography, DUC's education team is introducing students across the Atlantic provinces—and across Canada—to wetlands.
Watch inside a duck’s nest box
Watch and learn about the wood ducks and hooded mergansers using nest boxes installed by a DUC volunteer in New Brunswick—and see newly hatched ducklings!
Vivian Kierstead is DUC’s Volunteer of the Year in New Brunswick
For Vivian Kierstead, volunteering with DUC is a family affair. Vivian and her husband Bill began volunteering with the Kent County chapter 31 years ago, and have passed on their passion to their two daughters.
Birdsong everywhere
Celebrating biodiversity in the Saint John River floodplain with the Acadian Birder
Where are the ducks nesting along the Saint John River?
What a University of New Brunswick student’s research could tell us about waterfowl and nest-box stewardship in the lower Saint John River floodplain.
Re-wilding at Rivière du Nord
DUC reverts decades-old freshwater marsh to saltwater to protect New Brunswick coastline from sea-level rise and provide habitat for endangered species.
Coastal Marsh Conservation
Irving Oil contributes to groundbreaking research on Bay of Fundy salt-marsh restoration.
A force for nature
How committed is Chris Fader to supporting wetland conservation? Not even a hurricane can stop him. It’s this kind of steadfastness that made Fader a joint-recipient of Ducks Unlimited Canada’s (DUC) volunteer of the year award in New Brunswick—an honour he shares with John Johnston of Hanwell.
Setting the gold standard
DUC volunteers are renowned for their devoted service and loyalty. New Brunswick’s John Johnston is the gold standard.
Biodiversity in Missaquash Marsh
There’s no better place to celebrate biodiversity and World Wetlands Day 2020 than Atlantic Canada’s Missaquash Marsh.
‘Tis the season of giving back. Kids triple their fundraising goal in the sweetest of ways.
“They wanted to know how to help.” New Brunswick students earn ‘Wetland Heroes’ designation after holiday donation exceeds expectations.