Building Ontario's Nature Network

Ontario Nature is pleased to announce the Building Ontario’s Nature Network project - a four year initiative funded by The Ontario Trillium Foundation. The goals of the project are to provide support to the Nature Network by establishing and supporting regional conservation offices and to celebrate the conservation successes of the Nature Network and Ontario Nature.

Building Ontario’s Nature Network provides support to Ontario Nature member groups through three regional coordinators who act as information conduits between the provincial and local levels. The coordinators serve as resource people to the Nature Network for information on provincial and local conservation issues. Supporting the Nature Network involves answering inquiries, providing conservation expertise and providing conservation problem-solving advice to member groups. The media campaign communicates the message of nature protection to a wide spectrum of people across Ontario, and helps to promote a conservation ethic that honours responsibility and care for the environment.

The three regional coordinators are professionals with a diversity of skills, knowledge and experience who are familiar with conservation issues at the local, regional and provincial levels, as well as Ontario Nature’s conservation priorities.

For more information about Building Ontario’s Nature Network, please contact: Ontario Nature at 1-800-440-2366 / 416-444-8419 or email info@ontarionature.org.

	The Ontario Trillium Foundation, an agency of the Ministry of Culture, receives annually $100 million of government funding generated through Ontario’s charity casino initiative. The Foundation provides grants to eligible charitable and not-for-profit organizations in the arts, culture, sports, recreation, environment and social service sectors.

The Ontario Nature Network is a province-wide network of more than 140 groups that protects Ontario's nature and provides provincial leadership in parks and protected areas, land-use planning policies and conservation science. A strong commitment and concern for nature is shared by each group and demonstrated through their own activities.