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2025 Ontario Biodiversity Summit

May 21 - May 22

Welcome to the 2025 Ontario Biodiversity Summit!

When: May 21-22nd, 2025

Where: Trent University, Peterborough-Nogojiwanong, Ontario.

Standard registration is $425. Student registration is $200. All applicable taxes are included.

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The 2025 Ontario Biodiversity Summit: Our turning point for nature will bring people together to build a future where biodiversity is valued, conserved, restored and people live in harmony with nature.

Join us at the summit to find common threads between different sectors, areas of expertise and knowledge systems and weave them together to help build our turning point for nature. The summit and its outcomes will also drive implementation of Ontario’s Biodiversity Strategy and its 13 targets and 43 priority actions.

The 2025 Ontario Biodiversity Summit will be an in-person event, to maximize networking and collaboration. It will include a mix of plenary content, workshops, concurrent sessions and networking activities, all located on the Trent University campus. Summit content and sessions will be offered in English. Do you require accessibility information? Please get in touch.

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Our turning point for nature

A turning point is a moment of profound change which significantly alters the future.

We are losing biodiversity at an alarming rate. Experts around the world are calling for immediate and urgent actions to address the causes of biodiversity loss, climate change, and ecosystem degradation.

Our turning point for nature is intended to generate the pivotal transformative actions we need to take to halt and reverse biodiversity loss in Ontario.

Our turning point for nature

Background

It’s almost been 10 years since our first summit took place in Niagara Falls in May 2015, with a theme of Protecting What Sustains Us. Our virtual summit in 2021 focused on Nature-based solutions for the 21st century. Both of these events inspired, enabled and engaged people from across Ontario to share knowledge and take action to protect and restore biodiversity. You can find 2021 recordings here.

Our turning point for nature will bring the best of these past events into a modern and forward-looking summit that brings diverse perspectives together and maximizes networking and collaboration.

For more information: https://event.fourwaves.com/obs-2025/pages

Organizer

Ontario Biodiversity Council
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Venue

Trent University
1600 W Bank Dr
Peterborough, Ontario Canada
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FYIxON guided hike at Cedarvale, Nature Guardians Community Science activity © Melina Damian


To submit your public events for consideration, email Noah Cole at noahc@ontarionature.org. Please send well in advance and allow up to two weeks for posting. 
Events must be submitted by a member group or run jointly with Ontario Nature.