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The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) is working to restore more than 850 hectares of grasslands and seven kilometres of shoreline at Buffalo Pound north of Moose Jaw, an area roughly equal to 1,065 Canadian football fields.

To help complete the project, the NCC is asking the public to donate to it.

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The non-profit bought the land from a local cattle producer using internal money. It has since raised 85 per cent of the costs to cover the purchase, hoping people will donate enough money to cover the remaining expenses, $525,000.

Cameron Wood overseesconservation for the NCC in Saskatchewan. He said it was imperative to buy the land as soon as possible. It sits west of Highway 2, adjacent to the north shoreline of Buffalo Pound Lake.

“It’s more a question of ‘what is the risk if it weren’t purchased for conservation?’ And there is certainly a risk that at some point in the future that habitat could have been altered for cottage development, for market gardens, even for other recreational uses like golf courses,” he said.