Ontario Nature Blog

Many of us are aware of the frightening rates of global biodiversity decline, highlighted at the COP15 conference in Montreal last December. There, the parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, including Canada, negotiated the Global Biodiversity Framework and established 23 targets to halt and reverse nature’s ongoing and accelerating decline by 2030. ...

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Less than 11 percent of Ontario’s lands and waters are considered protected, despite the existence of areas of great ecological, cultural, and community value that deserve protection. Many of these areas are featured on the Protected Places Story Map, a collective vision developed by Ontario Nature and several key partners. Each area featured on the ...

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Earlier this month, the Auditor General released a blistering report critiquing the Government of Ontario’s “indefensible” process of removing thousands of hectares from the Greenbelt. The Premier immediately responded by stubbornly refusing to reverse his decision. His response has underlined once more the need for constant vigilance and a strong united voice if we are ...

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News on the biodiversity front is mostly discouraging. So, when good news appears, we want to savour it and feel confident that it’s real. Unfortunately, under the Government of Ontario’s bungling of species protection, recovery and reporting to the public, even good news is suspect. Despite the cheery tone of some captive-wildlife photo ops on ...

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The Office of the Auditor General of Ontario released its State of the Environment in Ontario report in May – an assessment of how effectively the Government of Ontario is protecting the environment. The report has several sections such as climate change and water quality, and a large section on nature and wildlife, and it ...

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