Ontario Nature Blog

The Youth Summit has been filling a need for providing quality land-based learning, environmental education and genuine connections with like-minded peers outside of the classroom since the first Youth Summit for Biodiversity in 2010.Now more than ever, outdoor education is essential. As highlighted in ON Nature magazine‘s cover story, Making the Grade, education budget cuts, ...

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When fellow Ontario Nature Youth Council member Yiming and I created Project 275 to fight species extinction with art, there were 275 species and subspecies at risk in Ontario (see the full list here). We had always known that the “275” would eventually become symbolic when the actual number changed, although we had hoped any change would be driven by species recovery, not ...

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Growing up in the Philippines, the first thing that stood out to me in Canada was how intertwined life and nature is here. I noticed how camping, hiking, fishing, and any activities out in nature are quite common with Canadians. By doing these activities with my family every summer, it made me fall in love ...

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Each year, members of the Ontario Nature Youth Council attend the Wetlands Field Trip – a weekend-long retreat in the spring, packed with hands-on learning and wetlands education. This year, 18 Youth Council members ventured to Kilcoo Camp in Minden, Ontario from May 1-3, alongside program Alumni and Ontario Nature staff, for a weekend that ...

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Students across Ontario are leading the sustainability movement: they organize eco-clubs, launch recycling programs, and run green campaigns. But while school boards promote environmental values, student-led sustainability often receives little real support. The gap between school policy and student action reveals how eco-clubs are carrying the weight of climate leadership and the urgent need for ...

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