Irving Eco-Centre / La Dune de Bouctouche Email Us Visit Our Website Send to a Friend Print Listing Save This Listing ID: 1858 1932 Route 475 Bouctouche, New Brunswick, E4S 4W9 Phone: (506) 743-2600 Toll Free: 1-888-640-3300 Fax: Total # of Visits: 14501 Category: Day Adventures/Experiences, Dunes and Discovery Beaches, Beaches-Saltwater, Wildlife Viewing - Birding, Tourist Attractions, Children/Kid's Events Rating For: Irving Eco-Centre / La Dune de Bouctouche

The Irving Eco-Centre: La dune de Bouctouche has been developed, protected and restored as one of the last great dunes on the northeastern coast of North America.

La dune de Bouctouche offers visitors the opportunity to learn about the dune and its ecosystem.

The fine sand dune extends 12 km into Bouctouche Bay and was created by the constant movement of sand due to the wind, tides, and ocean currents since the last ice age. Estimated to be 2,000-years old, the dune changes shape with every major storm.

It serves as a habitat for a wide variety of aquatic plants and animals, and shore and migratory birds, making this a major ecological site. The dune also serves to protect the bay's calm waters and salt marshes and a sandy beach, bathed by the warm bay waters, stretches alongside.

Explore the unique beauty of the dune by taking a guided tour or participating in an educational activity.

Or, simply take a walk along the boardwalk where you can observe the fauna, without endangering their precious, fragile habitats. The two-kilometer boardwalk extends out to the beach and inner bay and has ramps making it wheelchair accessible.

The boardwalk is open year round (unless a winter storm damages part of it).

The Irving Eco-Centre closes for the season on October 24th until May, 2010

Irving Eco-Centre’s bilingual interpreters are available from May to October to explain why it is important to preserve the dune.

Group reservations: 1-506-743-2600 or 1-888-640-3300

Information: (506) 743-2600 between 8:30 am and 4:30 pm (Mon-Fri) or ladune@nbnet.nb.ca (From May to October toll free 1-888-640-3300)

Directions: Take Exit 32A (for Bouctouche) off HWY 11 onto route 475.  Follow route 475 through Bouctouche and out along the coast north.  You will see the dunes before you come to the Irving Eco Centre.

One of the primary purposes in creating the Irving Eco-Centre: La Dune de Bouctouche was to increase the public's understanding of the dune's threatened environment.

An important purpose of the Irving Eco-Centre is to contribute to the scientific knowledge of dune ecosystems along the north Atlantic coast. Data is collected regularly and assessed by the Eco-Centre's staff for various research projects: dune monitoring and restoration; an insect inventory; a butterfly count; a migratory shorebird survey; and a piping plover monitoring project.

Geomorphology (the study of the forms and the evolution of the earth's crust's relief features on the Bouctouche spit) and ecodynamic mapping (mapping of the dune's plant environment) of the Bouctouche Dune are being carried out by the Université de Moncton.

The Irving Eco-Centre: La dune de Bouctouche  has been developed, protected and restored as one of the last great dunes on the northeastern coast of North America by J. D. Irving Ltd.

When you visit Bouctouche, why not take a look at Pays de la Sagouine?

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