Channel - Port aux Basques
SAM Member Since: August 2003
Area Protected: 727 acres
The Town of Channel - Port aux Basques, with a population of ~4,200, is located on the south-west coast of Newfoundland. The town is the central point of entry or "gateway" to the island, via ferry. It is known for its natural, deep water port and in the past was used by the Basques people as a safe-haven in stormy seas. Channel-Port aux Basques was once two separate communities and it wasn't until 1945 that the two were integrated into one.
Conservation Areas
Within a larger stewardship zone, the agreement designates 727 acres of wetland and coastal habitat of significance to waterfowl as 3 Management Units: Shorts Pond, Big Barachois and Rocky Barachois. These ponds and marshes and their surrounding vegetated buffers provide prime habitat for nesting and brood rearing of juvenile waterfowl. The Stewardship Zone contains formally designated critical habitat beaches that are used by breeding piping plover each year.
Big Barachois, 480 acres.
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