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Cawthra Mulock Nature Reserve © Camille Tremblay-Beaulieu
The most optimistic souls wore shorts, and the more pessimistic – or perhaps realistic – wore long pants and rubber boots. For the first half of the event, Ontario Nature staffers, Stephanie Muckle and Smera Sukumar, led of the group of attendeesdown a winding trail to a bridge that gave way...
Walk along the trails of Rockwood Conservation Area or paddle the Eramosa River and the story of our geological past unfolds.
Youth Summit, Alex Boulets © Noah Cole
Most of us have experienced forest foods, whether we’ve collected fiddleheads or picked wild raspberries as a trailside snack. Ontario Nature’s recent “Foraging Week” events in Thunder Bay expanded on these experiences, showing participants how easy it is to find and use wild foods from our northern forests. As one Indigenous blueberry picker told us, ...
American badger © Bethany Weeks CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Part 1 of a 3 part blog series about the Province’s failure to uphold strong protections for our most vulnerable plants and animals. I came back from vacation in mid-August to face a nasty surprise on the Environmental Registry: a government proposal to strip nine species at risk of their core legal protections under the ...
Paswe Protected Area © Carter Dorscht