An island in Lake Huron is now fully protected by the Nature Conservancy of Canada.
Cockburn Island, which is twice the size of Bermuda, is now considered a protected area and is home to one of the largest protected, intact hardwood forest ecosystems in southern Ontario. The island is over 42,000 acres in size and is located between Manitoulin Island to the east, and Drummond Island of Michigan to its west.
Nature Conservancy of Canada says that Cockburn Island is the largest protected area in Ontario now in a release from earlier this morning. The NCC ranked Cockburn Island eighth out of 32,000 Great Lakes islands in terms of the importance of protection.