Ontario Nature Blog

Our blog this week was originally published by Indigenous Corporate Training Inc. For a very long time, mainstream Canadians were unaware of the horrors and conditions that 150,000 Indigenous children endured in the Indian residential schools over a period of more than 100 years. For many Canadians, the first inkling of the atrocities the children ...

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The three-day gathering was hosted by Ontario Nature, Plenty Canada, Walpole Island Land Trust and the Indigenous Environmental Studies and Sciences program at Trent University from May 28 to 30 2018. Transforming Conservation: Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas in Ontario, is a report that reflects stories, insights and knowledge shared about Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas ...

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Earlier this year, federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna that national parks must be respectful of traditional knowledge. She went on to say that Indigenous protected areas will be one way Canada can achieve its goal of having 17 percent protected land and inland waters by 2020. The summer 2017 issue of ON Nature features Point Grondine ...

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I woke up this morning to a story on the local news that a family of nine had died in another northern First Nation reserve house fire. Among the dead were three children. The underlying cause – poverty and what the reporter called “third world living conditions”. It’s enough to take your breath away.

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