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A Nature’s Viewer Code of Ethics: Do’s and Don’ts

October 14, 2022–Noah Cole

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Advocacy•Environmental Education•Photography•Recreation and Events•Wild Species

Digiscoped Franklin's gull and killdeer © Andy Jones, Cleveland Museum of Natural History CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

There are a few published codes of practices for nature photographers, but here we’ve expanded the code to cover all nature watchers. Like all codes, it offers general guidelines that ...

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Our Plastic Problem: Impacts of Single-Use Plastics on the Environment

May 12, 2022–Lena Milton

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Conservation News•Reduce Your Footprint

Single-use plastics—such as straws, plastic bags, and bottles—are meant to be used once and then immediately discarded. Many of us are already aware of the issue, as images of freshwater ...

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Protecting Peatlands Protects our Planet

December 15, 2021–Jenna Cardoso

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Climate Change•Ecology•Indigenous Relations•Ontario Nature•Stewardship and restoration•Wetlands

James Bay peatlands © Ray Ford

Ontario’s peatlands store the most carbon in the country – more than all the other natural ecosystems in Ontario combined – making these terrestrial wetland ecosystems an essential nature-based climate ...

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