Ontario Nature Blog

Ontario Nature Conservation Award winners: (from left to right) Brendon Larson, president of the Ontario Nature board (on behalf of Vic Orr), Emily Conger (A2A), Megan Wilcox, Clarke Birchard, Cameron Smith, Dan Bissonnette, Gideon Foreman (CAPE), Tys Theysmeyer (Cootes to Escarpment Parks System), Jack Gingrich The Ontario Nature Conservation Awards recognize excellence by honouring individuals, ...

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While Arthur C. Clarke may have predicted that 2010 will be “the year we make contact,” the United Nations is asking us to take a more inward looking approach, declaring the coming 12 months to be the International Year of Biodiversity. In advance of that, researchers in Australia have completed a monumental effort, compiling data ...

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A unique land use partnership north of Sault Ste. Marie has resulted in the long-term protection of one of Ontario’s highest points of land. With its twin peaks rising some 360 metres above the surrounding terrain, King Mountain is the focal point of the Algoma Highlands, a swath of rolling terrain stretching for 120 kilometres between ...

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Joel Cooper can’t say enough about the big lake that looms just outside the patio doors of his modest year-round home near Wawa, Ontario. “Lake Superior has captured my imagination and dominates my life,” says Cooper, a retired Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources employee who lives on Michipicoten Bay and dedicates countless volunteer hours to ...

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After more than 35 years of endangered species status, bald eagles living south of the French and Mattawa rivers were downgraded to a species of special concern by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources in mid-August. Jody Allair, a biologist with Bird Studies Canada (BSC) who oversees field studies of a southern Ontario-wide bald eagle ...

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