Lasting landscapes it's an opportunity to preserve historic land; as part of that, the Nova Scotia Nature Trust put some funding aside called The Nature Fund that is to encourage conservation partners and other levels of government to step up and help them reach a really ambitious target of protecting 17 percent of Canada by 2020. There is a fundraising campaign underway now to get them closer to that goal.

Bonnie Sutherland the executive director of Nova Scotia in Nature Trust

Now the public donates some money and governments donate some money toward this project but it turns out that there's an unexpected four hundred thousand dollars on the table. If the trust can raise a