© Lora Denis
The Government of Ontario’s new Forest Sector Strategy has been portrayed as a gift to the people of northern and rural Ontario. It claims to herald a “better quality of life”, secure “a prosperous future”, and of course, “end unnecessary duplication”. Instead, it’s another bulldozer for the Premier to pave the way for sweeping changes ...
The United Nations declared 2011-2020 the International Decade of Biodiversity to both celebrate the richness and diversity of nature, and to challenge individuals, governments and corporations to help stop its decline. Ontario Nature has been in the biodiversity business since 1931, leading the way to protect our province’s wild species and wild spaces. While climate ...
As we count down the final days of the decade, we’re thinking back to the amazing things we accomplished for nature in 2019. We could not have done it without you – our members, followers, funders, partners and sponsors. Your support makes everything we do for nature possible. 10th annual Youth Summit for Biodiversity and ...
This summer, Josh Feltham worked with Ontario Nature on our Snake Monitoring project and helped us test our Long-Term Monitoring Protocol (LTMP) we developed for snakes in Ontario. The LTMP aims to develop methodology and acquire data to support habitat protection, species-at-risk management plans, and educational programming in order to protect snake diversity. Here, Josh ...
Shoreline wetlands, Lake Gananoque © Caroline Schultz
In eastern Ontario, an ancient seam of granite known as the Frontenac Arch extends from the Canadian Shield in Algonquin Provincial Park all the way south to the St. Lawrence River, and beyond to the United States and the Adirondack Mountains. This singular belt of rugged bedrock—once part of a great mountain range whose craggy ...
Laurel Creek Conservation Area © Carl Hiebert / Grand River Conservation Authority