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How to Recruit and Engage Youth in Your Nature Organization

January 11, 2023–Noah Cole

Youth Council, Ontario Heritage Trust Awards 2015 © Noah Cole

Recruiting and engaging young people means empowering future environmental leaders. How can your organization successfully connect with youth and boost volunteer participation in your programming? Join panelists and members of ...

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Empowering Our Elected Climate Champions

October 6, 2021–Grant Linney

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Climate Change•Guest Blogger•Ontario Nature

© BlueRidgeKitties CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Late last month, I returned from six restorative days of canoeing in Killarney Provincial Park amidst fall colours, good weather and close friends. It reminded me of an Indigenous distinction ...

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Protected Areas and Climate Action in Ontario: A Cross-Cultural Dialogue

April 15, 2020–Ontario Nature Staff

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Conservation News•Indigenous Relations•Protected Places

© Noah Cole

“When we talk about nature-based solutions in the modern context, we’re really talking about new ways of doing old things. Indigenous knowledge systems tell us that we must put nature ...

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Environmental Deregulation has a Face

May 3, 2019–Lisa Richardson

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Conservation News•Species at Risk

The provincial government’s proposed omnibus bill makes Ontario a very worrisome place to be. Funding for flood mitigation across the province is disappearing and a critical tree-planting program will soon ...

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Top 10 Reasons for Protected Areas

June 20, 2017–Anne Bell

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Protected Places

Pinery © Christopher Woo CC BY 2.0

In 2010, Canada and the parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity committed to protecting at least 17 per cent of the world’s lands and inland waters by 2020. With ...

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