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© Lora Denis
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 ...
Youth Council Herp Hike, High Park © Rajinstan Kamalraj
When I told my parents that my brother and I would be out on a weekend to go to a snake event, they were more than skeptical. Like more than half the world’s population, they’re not particularly comfortable at the thought of being in snake habitat. Snakes are one of the most misunderstood and feared ...
October 8, 2025–Shane Moffatt
Campaigns and advocacy•Land-use planning•Reduce Your Footprint•Species at Risk•Wild Species
Mother polar bear and cub, Hudson Bay © Emma Bishop CC BY 2.0
Polar bears are icons of the north – powerful, resilient and increasingly at risk. Some of Canada’s polar bear population live in Ontario, and how we protect them matters not only provincially, but globally. In response to the federal government’s draft Management Plan for the Polar Bear in Canada, Ontario Nature is raising serious concerns ...
Laurel Creek Conservation Area © Carl Hiebert / Grand River Conservation Authority