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Carbon Assessment and Protected Places – A Community Science and Nature-Based Approach to Climate Change

October 6, 2022–Melissa Thomas

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Climate Change•Community Science•Environmental Education•Nature Reserves•Protected Places•Stewardship and restoration

Dundas Valley © Dieter Staudinger

Earlier this summer, community science volunteers joined us to assess carbon at select Ontario Nature properties. This year, we have been working towards assessing the value of protected areas and ...

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Community Science: Connecting Through Curiosity and Shared Conservation Goals

July 23, 2021–Alice Dabrowski

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Community Science

Vertebrate bioblitz. Ontario Nature Youth Summit 2019 © Noah Cole

Where would science be without contributions from the public? While trained scientists are regarded as experts, every academic and professional scientist was, at some point, a novice themselves. In fact, ...

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Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas Vlog

April 26, 2021–Ontario Nature Staff

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Birds•Recreation and Events•Wild Species

The third Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas (Atlas-3) Launch Weekend video series provides volunteers with everything you need to know about atlassing and how you can get involved. Thanks for your ...

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High-rise Loon Watching

April 27, 2020–Mark Stabb

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Birds

Common loon © Seth Carlson

Making the most of the COVID-19 lockdown has meant finally doing some of those “If I only had the time” tasks. Photo sorting and scanning is one of those things ...

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