Ontario Nature Blog

In its rush to cut “red tape” and ensure Ontario is “open-for-business,” the Government of Ontario is taking a sledge hammer to our environment laws and policies. First it cancelled cap-and-trade, designed to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and meet internationally agreed-upon targets to address climate change. Then it dismantled the office of the Environmental ...

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Data shows that the MNRF must be more diligent in protecting species at risk Throughout childhood, understanding what conditions classify species at risk and how to help endangered species is something that I have always been passionate about and is something that drives me throughout my work, both as a researcher and as an environmental ...

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Part 3 of a 3 part blog series about the Province’s failure to uphold strong protections for our most vulnerable plants and animals. When we celebrated the passing of Ontario’s new Endangered Species Act (ESA) back in 2007, I could never have imagined that it might serve as a Trojan horse for development. Yet that ...

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Part 1 of a 3 part blog series about the Province’s failure to uphold strong protections for our most vulnerable plants and animals. I came back from vacation in mid-August to face a nasty surprise on the Environmental Registry: a government proposal to strip nine species at risk of their core legal protections under the ...

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In just a few short weeks, the Jefferson salamander will begin its spring migration after spending a long winter burrowed underground. Faithful to its home, the Jefferson will return year-after-year to the same spot to breed, travelling no more than a kilometre from home within its entire lifetime. This trek can often be a dangerous ...

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