By John Chilibeck, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter New Brunswick’s Progressive Conservative government spent two years increasing protected natural areas from just under five per cent of the province’s land and freshwater to 10 per cent, a doubling that was proudly announced in December 2022. But now there’s a push from conservationists for far more: to hit 30 per cent by 2030, the vaunted “30 by 30” that the Trudeau Liberal government pledged for the country as a whole at a United Nations biodiversity forum in Montreal a couple of years ago. The local chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society and the Atlantic Salmon Federation recently released the results of a poll they commissioned, suggesting that two out of three respondents in New Brunswick support the bigger goal. “We’re…
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