Wilderness Area · can
Fourchu Coast Wilderness Area
- Area
- 48 km²
- IUCN cat.
- IV
- Year
- 2016
Overview
- Designation
- Wilderness Area
- IUCN category
- IV · Aire d'habitats / espèces
Gestion active pour maintenir habitats / espèces particuliers
- Established
- 2016
- Managing authority
- Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
43 distinct species · 50 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 24 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Fourchu Coast Wilderness Area : 22 espèces reliées par 22 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology1 basins · 11 lakes · 7 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
6,0km
Lake surface here
0,39km²
Basins crossed
1
Max stream order
2
Max drainage
1 597km²
Discharge in basins
0,3m³/s
Mean precip.
1 474mm/an
Mean T°
5,8°C
Moisture idx
0,54
Max snow
36%
Mean runoff
1 116mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
41m
Watersheds crossing here
Lakes (11, top by area)
- Bagnells Lakearea2,6 km²avg depth5.4 m
- St. Esprit Lakearea1,9 km²avg depth3.7 m
- Lake #08545area1,7 km²avg depth3.8 m
- Lake #08551area1,3 km²avg depth3.5 m
- Lac 1035609area0,8 km²avg depth3.7 m
- Lac 1035204area0,7 km²avg depth3.7 m
- Lac 1036004area0,6 km²avg depth3.2 m
- Lac 1035648area0,3 km²avg depth4.2 m
- Lac 1035051area0,1 km²avg depth2.3 m
Rivers / streams (7, ord ≥ 4)
- Klondikes Brookord 2len here2.31 km37%total6 km
- Eastern Brookord 1len here1.83 km26%total7 km
- Ferguson Riverord 2len here1.17 km26%total5 km
- Taylors Brookord 2len here0.33 km3%total10 km
- Little Johns Brookord 1len here0.17 km12%total1 km
- Morrisons Brookord 2len here0.10 km2%total4 km
- Fullers Riverord 1len here0.04 km2%total2 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- 45.67458, -60.38363
- Open in maps
- OpenStreetMap → · Satellite →
Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.