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Reconnecting the Frontenac Arch: How Wildlife Crossings Can Heal a Fragmented Landscape

October 23, 2025–Aleisha Pannozzo

Habitat•Protected Places•Stewardship and restoration•Wild Species

Moose in Algonquin Provincial Park. © Follow Me North Photography

Humans have built crosswalks and traffic lights to help us move safely through our world. But what happens when a moose needs to cross a four-lane highway where cars zoom ...

William Bog: Conserving a Significant Wetland Within the City of Thunder Bay

August 21, 2025–Keith Wade

Nature Network•Protected Places•Wetlands

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 ...

Budget 2025 Puts Ontario’s Nature at Risk: Here’s Why.

June 13, 2025–Luke Bondi

Conservation News•Boreal Forest•Campaigns and advocacy•Climate Change•Land-use planning•Protected Places•Species at Risk

Cochrane Area Wildfire 2023 © AFFES-MNRF

During a global climate and biodiversity crisis, Ontario’s 2025 budget, introduced as Bill 24, Plan to Protect Ontario Act, fails to deliver critical investments in nature protection and conservation. Instead, ...

Algonquin’s Big 5: Meet the Most Captivating Wildlife

April 24, 2025–Jake Zamora

Protected Places•Wild Species

There is beauty around every corner of Algonquin Provincial Park. Canada’s first provincial park hosts more than 45 species of mammals, 250 species of birds, and 30 species of reptiles ...

Wolf Lake – Inching Closer to Protection

September 5, 2024–Ontario Nature Staff

Campaigns and advocacy•Indigenous Relations•Protected Places

Ontario is home to the largest remaining stand of old growth red pine anywhere in the world. This 1,600-hectare old growth forest is found at Wolf Lake, in the northeast ...

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