Zoologist and photographer Damian Lidgard’s new book focuses on the wild horse population on Nova Scotia’s isolated Sable Island as seen in this undated handout photo. The Canadian Press/Handout-Damian Lidgard
Damian Lidgard has spent 30 years studying and photographing wildlife on Nova Scotia’s Sable Island, and hopes his forthcoming book will give people an appreciation for the beauty and hardiness of the wild horses that have thrived on the remote and inhospitable spit of land for centuries.
The photographer and zoologist with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans says he made his first trip to the isolated, crescent-shaped sandbar—about 40 kilometres long and one kilometre across at its widest point—while working on his PhD in December 1996. Since then, his research on its roughly 20,000-strong seal population has brought him back several times each year, almost without interruption.
