On the front lines

On The Front Lines: Strategies For Healthy Beaches In Nova Scotia 6 Nova Scotia’s beaches are How to Get There picturesque and enjoyable for human visitors – but they also • Develop provincial coastal policy, legislation and management serve as crucial habitat for a regulations that give high priority to wildlife habitat, vegetation and variety of vegetation and wildlife biodiversity protection. [...] Carefully designed beach access can contribute During July and August 2008, to the economic well-being of the Nova Scotia Lifesaving coastal communities, allowing Society counted over 260,000 residents and visitors to explore visitors on just 21 supervised and appreciate local beach beaches. [...] On The Front Lines: Strategies For Healthy Beaches In Nova Scotia 9 There is no network to coordinate beach research activities and outcomes in Nova • Establish a provincial beach research and advisory network Scotia. [...] Research and monitoring projects also educate and engage government, universities, and communities, and promote coordination and cooperation. [...] This to set priorities for beach has lead to the degradation of management and to facilitate beach systems, declining wildlife information sharing and joint decision-making.