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Category: Nature Network

Nature Reserve Stewards: Looking for Volunteers

September 26, 2024–Julianna Kosturik

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Nature Network•Stewardship and restoration

Huron Fringe Field Naturalists, George G. Newton Nature Reserve © Christine Roberts

Ontario Nature’s 26 nature reserves protect some of the province’s best remaining examples of imperiled and vulnerable habitats. Ontario Nature is seeking volunteers to become nature reserve stewards. As a ...

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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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Ontario Nature’s Commitment to Nature is Shared by a Province-wide Network of Groups and Individuals

August 24, 2022–Lesley Rudy

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Nature Network

South Shore Safari, Ontario Nature Annual Gathering 2018 © John Hassell

Across the province, our Nature Network groups are protecting wild species and wild spaces in their local areas. Ontario Nature helps connect these groups to each other and to provincial ...

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What We Learned Starting a By-youth, For-youth Free Urban Nature Program in Sudbury

January 20, 2022–Guest blogger

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Environmental Education•Nature Network•Stewardship and restoration•Youth

Cleanup, July 2021 © Junction Creek Stewardship Committee

In July 2021, Junction Creek Stewardship Committee (JCSC), a grassroots environmental organization in N’Swakamok/ Sudbury, spearheaded a free month-long program for youth aged 13 to 17 to provide accessible nature-based ...

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