© Lora Denis
October 30, 2026–Erin Kobayashi
Campaigns and advocacy•Indigenous Relations•Nature Network•Nature Reserves•Stewardship and restoration
As Ontario Nature looks ahead to the next five years and approaches its centennial anniversary, we wanted to ensure that our future direction reflects the voices and perspectives of the people who make our organization what it is today. To help guide this process, Ontario Nature worked with The Community Company to develop a strategic ...
November 12, 2025–Tony Morris
Conservation News•Campaigns and advocacy•Nature Network•Recreation and Events
Inaugural Nature at Queen's Park © John Hassell
On the first day Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs) were back in fall session after an extended 137-day break, Ontario Nature hosted its inaugural Nature at Queen’s Park. This event was an opportunity for Ontario Nature, its Nature Network and partners to raise the profile of nature conservation amongst provincial decision-makers at the Legislation Assembly ...
Stewardship class, William Bog, Thunder Bay
William Bog, a Provincially Significant Wetland in Thunder Bay, ranks as the second largest wetland located entirely within an Ontario city. The bog is well known by naturalists for the presence of fourteen orchid species, other regionally rare species, and a recently described species at risk, the headwater Chilostigman caddisfly. The bog is surpassed in ...
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 steward, you will play a pivotal role in the conservation and responsible management of our nature reserves. All of them showcase unique ecological features and ...
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 of the Pollinator Roadsides, a project of Waterloo Region Nature, is that this will become the normal practice. These roadside areas constitute potential important pollinator ...
Paswe Protected Area © Carter Dorscht