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Credit: Tourism PEI
If you are planning to visit PEI when the pandemic is over, you now have 405 acres more to explore!
The government of Canada has announced that Parks Canada has purchased a 405-acre property adjacent to Prince Edward Island National Park at Greenwich that will be added to the park.
The newly purchased property is home to unusually large and mobile parabolic dunes with their associated counter ridges or Gegenwälle. It also has a forest, wetlands and coastal dunes that are home to many species at risk and rare species, such as the Piping Plover, the Yellow-banded Bumble Bee and the Little Brown Myotis (bat).
Map of PEI National Park at Greenwich (CNW Group/Parks Canada)
With this new land acquisition, PEI National Park that extends along the north shore of Prince Edward Island for approximately 40 km between Cavendish and Blooming Point and a portion of the Greenwich Peninsula located further east on St. Peters Bay will now encompass an area of approximately 23.84 km2.
The National Park located within the traditional and un-ceded Mi’kmaq territory of Epekwitk protects sand dunes and beaches, wetlands and forests that are home to over 400 species of plants and 300 species of birds and other wildlife.
PEI National Park is one of the smallest national parks in Canada and was established in 1937.
