Réserve marine de l'Estuaire-de-la-Rivière-Bonaventure

Bonaventure, Canada

The aquatic reserve of Estuaire-de-la-Rivière-Bonaventure (French: Réserve aquatique de l'Estuaire-de-la-Rivière-Bonaventure) is an aquatic reserve of Quebec, in Canada, located near the town of Bonaventure in the Gaspé Peninsula. The mission of this protected area of 218.73 hectares (540.5 acres) i

s to preserve the estuary of the Bonaventure River, one of the ten barachois estuaries in Quebec. On the islands of the estuary one can find several rare species in Quebec including the Macoun's gentian (Gentianopsis virgata subsp. macounii), the Anticosti aster and mat muhly as well as twenty-seven other rare plant species in the Gaspé. The reserve, born from the donation of a forestry company to the government of Quebec in 2001, was partially protected during the creation, in 2005, of the floral habitat of Barachois-de-Bonaventure, intended to safeguard the vegetation of the islands. The protected area, definitively created in 2009, is administered by the Ministry of Sustainable Development, Environment, and Fight Against Climate Change.

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