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Position on Opening a Hunting Season for Sandhill Cranes
February 9, 2026
Celebrating Ontario Community Champions on World Wetlands Day
February 2, 2026
Petition Requests Immediate Federal Legal Protection for Piping Plover Habitat at Wasaga Beach
January 27, 2026
Indigenous Grassroots Intervention in Bill 5 Court Challenge Asserts Bill 5 Ignores Indigenous Law, Harms Rights and Culture
December 15, 2025
Environmental Champions Honoured for Conservation Efforts
December 10, 2025
Nature Groups Organize Bird Counts This Holiday Season
December 8, 2025
ON Nature Magazine Winter 2025
December 4, 2025
Partners Advance Ecological Corridors Planning in the Sault Ste. Marie/Garden River Region
November 18, 2025
Areas of Natural and Scientific Interest Now Under Threat
November 4, 2025
Broad Coalition of Civil Society Organizations Presents Legislative Petition to Repeal Bill 5
October 20, 2025
Environmental and Labour Leaders Call for Repeal of Bill 5 – On First Day of the Ontario Legislature’s Fall session
October 9, 2025
Bill 5 Threatens the Survival of Polar Bears in Ontario
October 6, 2025
ON Nature Magazine Fall 2025
September 5, 2025
HCA Contributes Almost 4,000 Hectares of Protected Lands to Support Canada’s 30×30 Conservation Target
July 7, 2025
Wetland Loss and Pollution in Ontario Cause First Extirpation of an Endangered Terrestrial Species in Canada
June 23, 2025
The Hard Work to Overturn Bill 5 Starts Today
June 5, 2025
Bill 5 Must Be Withdrawn
June 3, 2025
ON Nature Magazine Summer 2025
May 30, 2025
Bill 5 Bulldozes Critical Endangered Species Protections
April 22, 2025
Parks Canada Funding Cuts
March 21, 2025
World Frog Day Marks a Leap Backwards in Ontario
March 20, 2025
ON Nature Magazine Spring 2025
March 7, 2025
Ron Reid
December 18, 2024
Ontario Needs to Get Serious About Protecting and Restoring Nature
December 18, 2024
Nature Groups Organize Bird Counts This Holiday Season
December 10, 2024
Protected Areas in Waiting
November 28, 2024
ON Nature Magazine Winter 2024
November 26, 2024
Ontario Nature’s Analysis of Bill 212 and the Highway 413 Act
November 22, 2024
Ontario Nature Expands the Gananoque Lake Nature Reserve
November 5, 2024
Ontario’s Endangered Species Threatened, Again
October 24, 2024
ON Nature Magazine Fall 2024
September 6, 2024
Public Notice of Controlled Burn on Pelee Island
September 3, 2024
City of Brampton and TRCA contribute over 1900 hectares of natural heritage lands towards Canada’s 30×30 conservation target
August 19, 2024
ON Nature Magazine Summer 2024
June 7, 2024
Ontario Nature Furthers Snake Conservation
April 25, 2024
Guelph Contributes 274 Hectares of Conservation Land to Canada’s Protected Areas Target
April 3, 2024
Community Forests Deliver on Conservation
March 21, 2024
ON Nature Magazine Spring 2024
March 11, 2024
Ontario Nature Publishes Ontario Reptile and Amphibian Atlas
January 9, 2024
Nature Groups Organize Bird Counts This Holiday Season
December 5, 2023
ON Nature Magazine Winter 2023
December 1, 2023
Ontario Nature Expands the Lost Bay Nature Reserve
November 21, 2023
The Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority Contributes an Additional 830 Hectares Towards Canada’s Protected Areas Target
November 7, 2023
ON Nature Magazine Fall 2023
September 11, 2023
ON Nature Magazine Summer 2023
June 11, 2023
Hamilton Conservation Authority Contributes Large Natural Areas to Canada’s Protected Areas Target
May 9, 2023
Groups celebrate major win for public participation in court case related to Bradford Bypass
April 25, 2023
Largest Provincial Citizen Science Effort Underway to Help Birds and Biodiversity in Ontario
April 20, 2023
ON Nature Magazine Spring 2023
March 10, 2023
Count Birds Instead of Gifts This Holiday Season
December 13, 2022
ON Nature Magazine Winter 2022
December 5, 2022
Bill 23 Media Statement
November 28, 2022
Ontario Nature Staff and Volunteers Plant 750 Trees
October 24, 2022
ON Nature Magazine Fall 2022
September 28, 2022
Planting Event at Sydenham River Nature Reserve
September 19, 2022
ON Nature Magazine Summer 2022
June 22, 2022
Statement on Indigenous Peoples Day
June 21, 2022
Paddlers Heading to Wolf Lake to Survey Birds and Highlight Need for Permanent Protection
May 19, 2022
Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) and partner Municipalities’ Lands Recognized Federally as Protected Areas
April 11, 2022
Groups launch lawsuit against federal environment minister over decision not to do an Impact Assessment on the Bradford Bypass
March 16, 2022
Draft conservation agreement for Ontario caribou weakest in Canada, says environmental groups
March 14, 2022
Environmental groups fight to protect endangered piping plover population at popular Ontario beach
March 11, 2022
ON Nature Spring 2022
March 3, 2022
Ontario Nature Protects Ecological Gem
December 13, 2021
Environmental groups call on Canada to protect habitat of Ontario’s threatened boreal caribou
December 8, 2021
Start a Tradition by Counting Birds This Holiday Season
December 8, 2021
Media Statement: Auditor General Report on Species at Risk
November 25, 2021
Talking Trees Interactive Art Walk in Thunder Bay
November 15, 2021
Environmental groups heading to court to protect endangered piping plover population at Ontario beach
November 1, 2021
Improving Accessibility at the H.N. Crossley Nature Reserve
October 18, 2021
Ontario Nature Staff and Volunteers Plant 900 Trees
September 26, 2021
Planting Event at Sydenham River Nature Reserve
September 20, 2021
Environmental Groups Celebrate Protection of Lower Duffins Creek Wetland
September 17, 2021
ON Nature Fall 2021
September 10, 2021
Court Declares Ontario Government Broke the Law
September 8, 2021
Statement in Support of Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc
June 2, 2021
Visiting Our Nature Reserves Update
April 20, 2021
Ontario Government Passes Bill 257: Planning Act Amendments That Unleash Sprawl MZOs From Basic Planning Rules
April 13, 2021
Environmental groups secure halt to impending destruction of Lower Duffins Creek Wetland
March 15, 2021
Environmental groups file urgent motion to stop destruction of Lower Duffins Creek Wetland
March 8, 2021
Statement on Bill 257 regarding legislation to exempt MZOs from planning laws and policy
March 4, 2021
The Government of Ontario’s Promise to Grow the Greenbelt
February 24, 2021
Over 90 groups and prominent individuals offer a new blueprint for expanding Ontario’s Greenbelt
February 17, 2021
Visiting Our Nature Reserves Update
January 15, 2021
Christmas Bird Counts Continue Despite COVID-19 Pandemic
December 10, 2020
The Ontario Government Betrays the People of Ontario in Favour of Bad Developers with the Passage of Schedule 6
December 8, 2020
Environmental groups sue to keep Ontario wetlands protected
November 30, 2020
Reaction to Auditor General’s Environment Report
November 19, 2020
Nearly 100 groups tell the Ontario government it is unacceptable to use MZOs to override wetlands protections
November 17, 2020
Regional and Provincial Groups to Governments: COVID-19 Recovery Should “Stop Sprawl and Grow the Greenbelt”
October 15, 2020
3,000+ Canadians urge American tissue giant, Procter & Gamble, to be more responsible with their use of Ontario’s forests
October 12, 2020
York Region launches shocking attack on the Greenbelt: Eleven groups call on the Premier to take immediate action
October 7, 2020
Reaction to Canada’s Speech From the Throne
September 23, 2020
Media Statement: South Shore Protection
September 10, 2020
Legal Action Launched Against Ontario’s Omnibus Bill 197
August 31, 2020
Statement of Solidarity with Black Lives Matter
June 26, 2020
Ontario Nature Reopens its Nature Reserves
May 12, 2020
Ontario Nature Reserves are Closed
April 3, 2020
Ontario Nature Protects Geological Wonder
March 24, 2020
Our response to COVID-19
March 18, 2020
Keep up with Ontario’s Environmental News
March 6, 2020
We must celebrate nature now more than ever
June 3, 2019
Ontario Nature awards conservation heroes
June 5, 2017
Ontario Nature awarded conservation heroes
June 6, 2016
Conservation heroes win Ontario Nature awards
May 25, 2015