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Category: Stewardship and restoration

World Wetlands Day Call to Action 

February 1, 2022–Anne Bell

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Stewardship and restoration•Wetlands

Point Pelee National Park, Marsh boardwalk © Daveynin CC BY 2.0

February 2, 2022 marks the fiftieth anniversary of World Wetlands Day. This annual event is intended to raise awareness about wetlands to reverse their ongoing decline. Alarmingly, almost 90 percent ...

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What We Learned Starting a By-youth, For-youth Free Urban Nature Program in Sudbury

January 20, 2022–Guest blogger

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Environmental Education•Nature Network•Stewardship and restoration•Youth

Cleanup, July 2021 © Junction Creek Stewardship Committee

In July 2021, Junction Creek Stewardship Committee (JCSC), a grassroots environmental organization in N’Swakamok/ Sudbury, spearheaded a free month-long program for youth aged 13 to 17 to provide accessible nature-based ...

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Protecting Peatlands Protects our Planet

December 15, 2021–Jenna Cardoso

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Climate Change•Ecology•Indigenous Relations•Protected Places•Stewardship and restoration•Wetlands

James Bay peatlands © Ray Ford

Ontario’s peatlands store the most carbon in the country – more than all the other natural ecosystems in Ontario combined – making these terrestrial wetland ecosystems an essential nature-based climate ...

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Failure: Ontario’s Record on Protecting Species at Risk

December 2, 2021–Anne Bell

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Habitat•Land-use planning•Species at Risk•Stewardship and restoration

Blanding's turtle, threatened © David Allen CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

The Auditor General of Ontario’s report, Protecting and Recovering Species at Risk, is not reading for the faint of heart. Released on November 22, 2021 the audit sets out in ...

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Immediate Action Needed to Protect Ontario’s Old-growth Forests

November 18, 2021–Jenna Cardoso

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Climate Change•Ecology•Stewardship and restoration

Catchacoma Lake © David Allan Barker CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

On November 2nd at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (known as COP26), over 100 world leaders, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pledged to end and reverse deforestation by 2030. ...

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