Ontario Nature Blog

Earlier this summer, community science volunteers joined us to assess carbon at select Ontario Nature properties. This year, we have been working towards assessing the value of protected areas and conservation lands as nature-based solutions for climate change by modeling carbon storage of protected areas. Natural climate solutions, such as conservation or restoration, have been ...

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In southern Ontario, municipalities and Conservation Authorities (CAs) play an essential role in conserving natural areas and greenspace, vital in conserving biodiversity and enhancing climate change resilience. Largely unrecognized, however, is how their efforts are contributing to Canada’s ambitious Target 1 plan to protect 25 per cent of our lands and waters by 2025, and ...

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These days, people are hearing more about nature-based climate solutions, but what do these solutions look like on the ground? Nature-based climate solutions are actions taken to maintain and restore natural ecosystems that help keep greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere and improve resilience against extreme weather events. This often looks a lot like land ...

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Nature advocates in Ontario will soon have a new tool at their disposal: a conservation designation that pinpoints sites of exceptional value backed by scientific evidence. Known as Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs), they are sites identified based on a global standard which considers the following characteristics: threatened biodiversity geographically restricted biodiversity aggregations of species high ...

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It’s late spring in northern Ontario. I am sitting on a beautiful peninsula, listening to the ethereal song of the Swainson’s thrush, and watching the sunrise over a quiet, peaceful lake. Does it get any better? This is the beauty of the Wabakimi area. Earlier this year, I joined the Friends of Wabakimi (FOW) on ...

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