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Category: Habitat

Restoring Habitats, Reviving Species

November 21, 2024–Hayley Raymond

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Campaigns and advocacy•Habitat•Nature Reserves•Species at Risk•Stewardship and restoration•Wild Species

Sydenham River Nature Reserve, Planting Event © Nhu le

This Giving Tuesday, Ontario Nature is raising funds to protect endangered species. There are over 240 species at risk in Ontario. But thanks to the dedication and hard work of ...

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Restoring Ontario’s Endangered Species Act

August 7, 2024–Ontario Nature Staff

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Campaigns and advocacy•Habitat•Species at Risk•Wild Species

Jefferson salamander © Scott Gillingwater

Ontario Nature has previously documented and advocated against the extensive changes to the Endangered Species Act (the Act) and its impact on Ontario’s most vulnerable species, and has asked members ...

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Pollinator Roadsides – Creating Habitat in the Waterloo Region

July 17, 2024–Jennifer Leat

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Gardening•Habitat•How To•Nature Network•Pollinators

Monarch on common milkweed © Jennifer Leat

Imagine the roadsides of expressways being a meadow of native flowering plants instead of mown turf grass. Imagine the beauty and habitat for pollinators that this would create. The dream ...

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Saving Ontario’s Disappearing Wetlands – the Goulbourn Wetland Complex

April 11, 2024–Janet Stavinga

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Conservation News•Campaigns and advocacy•Habitat•Nature Network•Wetlands

Lookout over the Goulbourn Wetland Complex, a provincially significant wetland, at the headwaters of Poole Creek, along the Trans Canada Trail just west of Stittsville. © Brian Beattie

In a province already experiencing extensive wetland loss, one would think all efforts would be made to protect those that remain. However, from March 2023 to March 2024, 156 hectares ...

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Troubled Turtles Gain Momentum with Grassroots Supporters

March 27, 2024–Guest blogger

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Conservation News•Habitat•Reptiles and Amphibians•Stewardship and restoration

Blanding's and painted turtles, Toronto © Matt MacGillivray CC BY 2.0

Turtles are among the most vulnerable species on the planet. Thankfully, in some parts of Ontario, community groups are stepping up to protect turtles. Keep on reading to learn more ...

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