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October 30, 2026–Erin Kobayashi
Campaigns and advocacy•Indigenous Relations•Nature Network•Nature Reserves•Stewardship and restoration
As Ontario Nature looks ahead to the next five years and approaches its centennial anniversary, we wanted to ensure that our future direction reflects the voices and perspectives of the people who make our organization what it is today. To help guide this process, Ontario Nature worked with The Community Company to develop a strategic ...
October 29, 2026–Emily Edgley
Environmental Education•Habitat•Nature Reserves•Pollinators•Protected Places
Insects are often underappreciated and overlooked. Our surroundings are teeming with insect life. New estimates of the global number of insect species are at least 14 to 20 million, but at the same time populations are dramatically decreasing worldwide. Research shows a 40% decrease in insect species with one-third of species being labeled as endangered. ...
Late in September, the federal government introduced the more than 200-page omnibus bill, C-39, which continues a troubling pattern of increasing political discretion and weakening environmental review processes. The innocuous title, ‘An Act respecting certain measures to strengthen the economy’, contains a sweep of changes to how project decisions are made in Canada. Perhaps most ...
The Youth Summit has been filling a need for providing quality land-based learning, environmental education and genuine connections with like-minded peers outside of the classroom since the first Youth Summit for Biodiversity in 2010.Now more than ever, outdoor education is essential. As highlighted in ON Nature magazine‘s cover story, Making the Grade, education budget cuts, ...
With National Day for Truth and Reconciliation approaching on September 30, 2026, it is an important time to reflect upon the ongoing legacy of colonialism, including within local and treaty contexts. Local governments are beginning to explore their own reconciliation paths and one municipality in Ontario – the Town of East Gwillimbury – is lighting the way for this work in York Region. Since the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 Calls to ...
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