The best part, however, of the salt marshes is that they are home to a unique butterfly called the Maritime Ringlet.

The Maritime Ringlet is one of only two butterfly species in Canada living exclusively in salt marshes.

Coastal salt marshes provide unique conditions for habitat specialists like the Maritime Ringlet.

Moreover, the Reserve is one of 10 marshes in Chaleur Bay that is home to the Maritime Ringlet, a rare species of butterfly.

The Chaleur Bay Watershed Group continues the environmental monitoring of the Maritime Ringlet (Coenonympha nipisiquit) that began in 2005.

The transect is preset by the Monitoring Protocol for the Maritime Ringlet Butterfly in New Brunswick, Canada (2007).

During the 2010 summer season, inventories were conducted within 16 potential habitat sites of the Maritime Ringlet and the Maritime Copper, located in the southern part of the...

The Maritime Ringlet butterfly is a small butterfly that lives almost exclusively in the salt marshes in and around the Chaleur Bay (end of July to mid August).

During the 2011 summer season, 16 salt marshes from the southern Gaspé Peninsula were surveyed for the presence of maritime ringlet, maritime copper and short-tailed...

The salt marsh features the rare Maritime Ringlet Butterfly, a small butterfly that lives almost exclusively in the salt marshes in and around the Chaleur Bay from the end of July to mid-August.

Volunteer Canadians from all walks of life are involved in the Atlantic Beach Guardian Program to protect the habitat of the piping plover, the Gulf of St. Lawrence aster and the maritime ringlet butterfly.

During the 2010 summer season, inventories were conducted within 16 potential habitat sites of the Maritime Ringlet and the Maritime Copper, located in the southern part of the...