© Lora Denis
As a GIS Analyst, I spend a lot of my time making maps and exploring the Ontario landscape from behind a computer screen. That’s why I jumped at the opportunity to visit the Frontenac Arch and the Eastern Ontario region of the Canadian Shield with our Conservation Technician, Ryan Wolfe, this past fall. We went ...
People are often fearful of something new. This fear can result in unwillingness to break from routine – which, arguably, has been the case in conservation across Canada for many years. Other Effective Areas-based Conservation Measures (OECMs) Take “Other Effective Areas-based Conservation Measures” (OECMs), for instance. This unwieldy term applies to areas that aren’t legislated ...
Nodding pogonias © David McAdoo CC BY 2.0
Patience may be a virtue, but in the case of Rondeau Provincial Park, we’ve waited long enough. For over 60 years, the Government of Ontario has acknowledged the need to phase out private cottages in provincial protected areas, such as Rondeau Provincial Park. And now it’s proposing a three-year extension of the leases while it ...
Gananoque Lake @ Caroline Schultz
The things we buy on Black Friday and Cyber Monday come and go, but nature is forever. You can put your savings from this shopping season towards protecting an acre of vulnerable natural habitat this year. This Giving Tuesday, Ontario Nature is raising funds to permanently protect 360 acres in eastern Ontario on the Frontenac ...
Here we go again. Relentless in the pursuit of its “open for business” agenda the Government of Ontario wants to weaken protections for nature in order to fast-track development across the province. This time it is targeting the Provincial Policy Statement (PPS), Ontario’s primary land use policy, with the goal of “reducing barriers and costs ...
Please use your voice to support caribou – the grey ghosts of the boreal forest.
Boreal caribou © Mati Kurg