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Fundy latest of 15 UNESCO Biosphere Reserves in Canada.

In New Brunswick, this spot boasts world’s most extreme tides. Even farms are part of the ‘living laboratory.’

Walk the ocean floor around the Bay of Fundy's iconic, towering Hopewell Rocks in mid-morning, have lunch at a national park's picnic area, then kayak around those same rocks, their soaring peaks now almost within tantalizing arm's reach. The world's most extreme tides surge in this bay between the Canadian east-coast provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The New Brunswick side became the Fundy Biosphere Reserve, Canada's 15th UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. It is one of two Canadian areas designated in 2007; 553 such biospheres exist in more than 100 countries.

The designation takes in the bay's coastline, unique sand dunes, Tantramar Marsh, inland farm fields and forests, and the towns of Sackville and Moncton—442,250 ha (1,090 ac) in all.   

Towns and farms are part of a biosphere? Yup. These reserves are “living laboratories,” protecting existing biodiversity while using it for purposes like sustainable tourism. The Canadian Biosphere Reserves Association website links to all 15 Canadian Reserves.

Among other notable spots, the 2,700-sq km (1,043-sq-mi) Frontenac Arch Biosphere in Ontario, covering the 1000 Islands and southern Rideau Canal, also boasts a National Geographic Society's Centre for Sustainable Destinations geotourism charter. So does the Waterton Biosphere Reserve and National Park in southwestern Alberta.

And at the western fringe of Canada, British Columbia’s Clayoquot Sound UNESCO Biosphere Reserve protects the rainforest and ocean resources along Vancouver Island's west coast, with fishing villages Tofino and Ucluelet now turned to sustainable tourism.

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www.novascotia.com
www.tourismnewbrunswick.ca

video :
La Dune de Batouche
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxG_ZLmKMQA
Riding Mountain National Park
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF2dpofz7HQ

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