Ontario Nature Blog

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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