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Category: Habitat

Navigating the Forest – How Sustainable Forestry Certifications Compare

April 2, 2025–Ontario Nature Staff

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Boreal Forest•Habitat•Indigenous Relations•Land-use planning•Reduce Your Footprint

Wabigoon Forest (FSC), Nabish Wetlands © Brittney Vezina

As public concern over the climate and biodiversity crises grows, so too does public demand for more environmentally friendly products. Often products that companies claim to be environmentally friendly come ...

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New Hope for a Small but Mighty Minnow in the GTA?

March 28, 2025–Shane Moffatt

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Campaigns and advocacy•Habitat•Reduce Your Footprint•Water•Wild Species

Redside dace © rkluzco, iNaturalist CC BY-NC 4.0

The federal government has just announced a crucial habitat protection order for the redside dace, a mighty minnow fighting for survival in and around the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Under ...

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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 about 270 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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