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Protecting Ontario’s Lakes From Fireworks

December 22, 2021–Enid Mallory

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Guest Blogger•Recreation and Events•Reduce Your Footprint

© DaMongMan CC BY 2.0

As fireworks explode on December 31st flocks of wintering birds also explode into the air in panic. They become disoriented, bang into windows or trees, fly too high and too ...

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Community Vs. Mega-landfill

September 10, 2021–Guest blogger

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Conservation News•Ontario Nature

Ingersoll anti-landfill rally © OPAL Alliance

What were the odds that small rural towns and villages could successfully unite to save their communities and environment from a mega-landfill? Dismal at best! When Walker Industries came to ...

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Holland Marsh: No Place For a Freeway

July 16, 2021–Margaret Prophet

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Greenbelt and Greenway•Land-use planning•Water•Wetlands•Wild Species and Habitat

Holland Marsh © Samantha Cava

The former mayor of Toronto, David Crombie, once gave me invaluable insight about how we view nature. He said, “We look at green spaces and nature as places with potential. ...

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Put Nature First in Rondeau Provincial Park

December 6, 2019–Anne Bell

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Ecology•Habitat•Protected Places•Species at Risk

Nodding pogonias © David McAdoo CC BY 2.0

Patience may be a virtue, but in the case of Rondeau Provincial Park, we’ve waited long enough. For over 60 years, the Government of Ontario has acknowledged the need to ...

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