Ontario Nature Blog

Imagine the roadsides of expressways being a meadow of native flowering plants instead of mown turf grass. Imagine the beauty and habitat for pollinators that this would create. The dream of the Pollinator Roadsides, a project of Waterloo Region Nature, is that this will become the normal practice. These roadside areas constitute potential important pollinator ...

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As spring unfolds and summer draws nearer, many migratory species are making their way back to Ontario. One such species is the iconic monarch butterfly. Their long journey is a multi-generational undertaking: while it typically takes only one generation to make the southward journey in fall, it takes several generations for monarchs to make their ...

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As the Government of Ontario seeks input on its next budget, will it consider a golden egg from the federal government? A year has passed since COP15 – the United Nations biodiversity conference in Montreal where 196 countries signed onto a global agreement to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. As the Government of Canada develops ...

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After a decade-long run, Ontario is making some timely adjustments to the provincial Invasive Species Strategic Plan (2012). To guide updates to the plan, the government invited the public to provide their vision for the future of invasive species prevention and management in Ontario. We did just that, incorporating feedback from 19 of our Nature ...

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For decades, Ontario Nature and many of our dedicated Nature Network groups have worked hard to celebrate the significant values of wetlands and advance wetland conservation across Ontario. We care deeply about this work. Hence why we were concerned to read an article, published by Northern Policy Institute in October, which argues that wetland protections ...

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