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Ottawa © Jock Rutherford CC BY SA 2.0
While the federal government has made bold promises to protect nature, their Canada Strong 2025 Budget tells a different story, prioritizing harmful subsidies over conservation funding, and ignoring the overwhelming majority of Canadians who see nature as essential to our national identity. Conservation Promises Broken In the throne speech, the government recognized the importance of ...
November 12, 2025–Tony Morris
Conservation News•Campaigns and advocacy•Nature Network•Recreation and Events
Inaugural Nature at Queen's Park © John Hassell
On the first day Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs) were back in fall session after an extended 137-day break, Ontario Nature hosted its inaugural Nature at Queen’s Park. This event was an opportunity for Ontario Nature, its Nature Network and partners to raise the profile of nature conservation amongst provincial decision-makers at the Legislation Assembly ...
Cover illustration, The Bulletin, July 1951
Since 1932, Ontario Nature has produced an award-winning magazine to inspire people to advocate for and on behalf of nature. Today, 27,500 readers enjoy a quarterly edition of ON Nature magazine, and recently an effort has been made to digitize the collection, with over 280 issues now available online dating back to 1951. The digitized ...
Students planting pollinator-friendly wildflowers, Anderson Collegiate, Whitby © Aidan Brushett
Students across Ontario are leading the sustainability movement: they organize eco-clubs, launch recycling programs, and run green campaigns. But while school boards promote environmental values, student-led sustainability often receives little real support. The gap between school policy and student action reveals how eco-clubs are carrying the weight of climate leadership and the urgent need for ...
October 23, 2025–Aleisha Pannozzo
Habitat•Protected Places•Stewardship and restoration•Wild Species
Moose in Algonquin Provincial Park. © Follow Me North Photography
Humans have built crosswalks and traffic lights to help us move safely through our world. But what happens when a moose needs to cross a four-lane highway where cars zoom by every few seconds? In the Algonquin to Adirondacks corridor, an ecologically rich region vital for wildlife movement, more than 20,000 animals are killed on ...
Laurel Creek Conservation Area © Carl Hiebert / Grand River Conservation Authority