© Lora Denis
October 29, 2026–Emily Edgley
Environmental Education•Habitat•Nature Reserves•Pollinators•Protected Places
Insects are often underappreciated and overlooked. Our surroundings are teeming with insect life. New estimates of the global number of insect species are at least 14 to 20 million, but at the same time populations are dramatically decreasing worldwide. Research shows a 40% decrease in insect species with one-third of species being labeled as endangered. ...
The Youth Summit has been filling a need for providing quality land-based learning, environmental education and genuine connections with like-minded peers outside of the classroom since the first Youth Summit for Biodiversity in 2010.Now more than ever, outdoor education is essential. As highlighted in ON Nature magazine‘s cover story, Making the Grade, education budget cuts, ...
September 17, 2026–Madeleine Raué
Environmental Education•Reptiles and Amphibians•Species at Risk•Youth
When fellow Ontario Nature Youth Council member Yiming and I created Project 275 to fight species extinction with art, there were 275 species and subspecies at risk in Ontario (see the full list here). We had always known that the “275” would eventually become symbolic when the actual number changed, although we had hoped any change would be driven by species recovery, not ...
Learning about the role of vernal pools at Altberg Wildlife Sanctuary Nature Reserve, Ontario Nature Youth Council Wetlands Field Trip 2026 © Emily Green
Each year, members of the Ontario Nature Youth Council attend the Wetlands Field Trip – a weekend-long retreat in the spring, packed with hands-on learning and wetlands education. This year, 18 Youth Council members ventured to Kilcoo Camp in Minden, Ontario from May 1-3, alongside program Alumni and Ontario Nature staff, for a weekend that ...
May 7, 2026–Teagan Netten
Community Science•Environmental Education•How To•Reptiles and Amphibians•Stewardship and restoration
Following the successful ten-year run of the Ontario Reptile and Amphibian Atlas, Ontario Nature developed a Long-Term Monitoring Protocol (LTMP) to fill important knowledge gaps about Ontario’s common and at-risk snakes. Since 2019, we’ve expanded the LTMP from nine monitoring locations to over 60 sites across the province! We recently published a Story Map where ...
Paswe Protected Area © Carter Dorscht