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The Impact of Bill 5 on Threatened and Endangered Species

May 24, 2025–Guest blogger

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Conservation News•Species at Risk•Wild Species

Kirtland's warbler © Robert McCaw

The Government of Ontario has proposed to replace Ontario’s Endangered Species Act (ESA), which serves to protect species at risk and habitats they require to survive, with Bill 5 entitled ...

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New Hope for a Small but Mighty Minnow in the GTA?

March 28, 2025–Shane Moffatt

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Campaigns and advocacy•Habitat•Reduce Your Footprint•Water•Wild Species

Redside dace © rkluzco, iNaturalist CC BY-NC 4.0

The federal government has just announced a crucial habitat protection order for the redside dace, a mighty minnow fighting for survival in and around the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Under ...

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Taking Action to Protect Redside Dace

March 3, 2022–Kat Lucas

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Conservation Authorities•Stewardship and restoration•Water•Wild Species

Redside dace © Jon Clayton

* We made a few corrections to this blog on September 26, 2024.  What’s black and white and red all over? OK, maybe just red on its sides?The redside dace ...

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Seven Ontario Species at Risk Through the Eyes of an Artist

August 5, 2021–Jennifer Ho

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Species at Risk•Wild Species

Trumpeter Swan © Lisa Vanin

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” – Aristotle Every living being has a story to tell. As an artist ...

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Straight From the Heart

February 14, 2019–Anne Bell

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Species at Risk

© John Pitcher

It is interesting how readily nature advocates can be dismissed as tree huggers or bleeding hearts – as if caring about our fellow creatures were somehow improper. Rachel Carson herself ...

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