Community Profile

Pledge Status

Complete

Pledge Date

Saturday, May 1, 2021

Program Year

2021

Achievement

2021

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Town of Hampton

Hampton, NB

Kenneth Chorley

Mayor

Pledge Summary

Shaped by water, alive with culture, and full of entrepreneurial spirit – Hampton inspires great living. Discover our natural spaces, innovative places, and welcoming faces. Located in the centre of Southern New Brunswick, we’re part of a vibrant region that offers the best of modern living in a countryside setting. Come for a day or stay for a lifetime; you’ll see why “It’s Our Nature”. In taking the Mayor's Monarch Pledge, we look forward to working with Nature NB and engaged residents to create a welcoming habitat for the Monarch Butterfly.

Community Spotlight

Action Items Committed for 2021

Communications and Convening ▸

Engage with city parks and recreation, public works, sustainability, and other relevant staff to identify opportunities to revise and maintain mowing programs and milkweed / native nectar plant planting programs.
Issue a proclamation to raise awareness about the decline of the monarch butterfly and the species’ need for habitat. This proclamation must incorporate a focus on monarch conservation.

Program and Demonstration Gardens ▸

Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.
Plant or maintain a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at City Hall or another prominent or culturally significant community location.
Launch or maintain an outdoor education program(s) (e.g., at schools, after-school programs, community centers and groups) that builds awareness and creates habitat by engaging students, educators, and the community in planting native milkweed and pollinator-friendly native nectar plants (i.e., National Wildlife Federation’s Schoolyard Habitats program and Monarch Mission curriculum).
Initiate or support community science (or citizen science) efforts that help monitor monarch migration and health.

Past Pledge Archive

Mayor Name	Program Year	Pledge Date	Achievement
MAYOR Robert Doucet	2022	4/7/2022		View Pledge
Mayor Kenneth Chorley	2021	5/1/2021	Signatories	View Pledge