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Tracking Ontario’s Snakes: A Growing Monitoring Effort

May 7, 2026–Teagan Netten

Community Science•Environmental Education•How To•Reptiles and Amphibians•Stewardship and restoration

Eastern foxsnake © Ryan Wolfe

Following the successful ten-year run of the Ontario Reptile and Amphibian Atlas, Ontario Nature developed a Long-Term Monitoring Protocol (LTMP) to fill important knowledge gaps about Ontario’s common and at-risk ...

Mass Mortality of 142 Turtles Calls for Increased Conservation Efforts

May 1, 2026–Grace McGrenere

Conservation News•Reptiles and Amphibians•Species at Risk•Water

Opinicon Lake © Carolyn Appotive CC BY 2.0

In 2022, Carleton University biologist, Grégory Bulté arrived at Opinicon Lake for his first day of field work for the season. Bulté has been studying and tracking northern map turtles ...

A 1939 Plea to Protect Ontario’s Reptiles

March 19, 2026–Gideon Forman

Reptiles and Amphibians•Stewardship and restoration•Wild Species

Eastern hog-nosed snake © Ryan Wolfe

At a friend’s cottage I recently uncovered a copy of The Reptiles of Ontario published in 1939 by the Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology. It’s an artifact that thrills with ...

Why Snakes Matter: A Deep Dive into Ontario’s Reptilian Residents

October 16, 2025–Chloe Chow

Community Science•Reptiles and Amphibians•Wild Species•Youth

When I told my parents that my brother and I would be out on a weekend to go to a snake event, they were more than skeptical. Like more than ...

Breaking Boundaries: the Next Generation Engages in Snake Conservation

December 12, 2024–Isabelle Li

Community Science•Reptiles and Amphibians•Wild Species

In June 2024, Ontario Nature joined Field Research in Evolution and Ecology Diversified (FREED) for an immersive five-day event at Queen’s University Biological Station. FREED events provide university students from ...

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