In 1971, a Canadian art student visited a fogbound island to draw wild horses; she stayed nearly 50 years studying its wildlife, and Sable became a national park reserve

In 1971, Zoe Lucas arrived on Sable Island as a young art student, drawn by its remote landscape and wild horses. What began as a short visit to the windswept island soon became a lifelong connection. Lucas kept returning, eventually spending more than five decades documenting its horses, wildlife and changing ecosystem through field observation and research.

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