Ontario Nature Blog

Environmental justice advocates are celebrating Bill C-226’s reception of royal assent on June 20, 2024. First introduced by former MP Lenore Zann as, Bill C-226 – now known as the National Strategy of Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice Act – represents the Government of Canada’s commitment to offering “affected communities with the opportunity to participate ...

Read More

Imagine the roadsides of expressways being a meadow of native flowering plants instead of mown turf grass. Imagine the beauty and habitat for pollinators that this would create. The dream of the Pollinator Roadsides, a project of Waterloo Region Nature, is that this will become the normal practice. These roadside areas constitute potential important pollinator ...

Read More

In 2022, the worldwide production of plastics reached over 400 million metric tonnes, marking an increase of about 1.6 percent from the previous year. With mounting pressure to find a solution to our plastic addiction, the United Nations Environmental Assembly voted to create the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution (INC). By the end of ...

Read More

If it wasn’t farmed or harvested, every piece of material that people interact with daily was mined or quarried. As the global community pivots from fossil fuels to mitigate climate change, renewable energies such as solar, wind, and electric vehicles have become crucial. These technologies depend on critical minerals like lithium, a precious metal whose ...

Read More

Northern Ontario’s boreal forest is known as the songbird nursery. Anyone who has heard its incredible dawn chorus would agree that it is a captivating place to be on a summer morning. This is where an important portion of the beloved songbirds that delight birders each spring in southern Ontario go to nest. We are ...

Read More