For more than 40 years, Mary Majka has championed nature conservation, environmental advocacy and heritage preservation in New Brunswick. A determined and passionate volunteer, she played a key role in the designation of Mary's Point in the Bay of Fundy as Canada's first Western Hemisphere shorebird reserve. As president of the New Brunswick Federation of Naturalists and the Albert County Heritage Trust, she helped to protect and preserve her province's wildlife and historic and natural sites. With the donation of a parcel of family land to the Nature Conservancy of Canada, she leaves an environmental legacy that will benefit generations of New Brunswickers.