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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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Insects: What Are They Good For?

June 10, 2022–Bipin Dhinsa

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Ecology•Ontario Nature•Pollinators•Wild Species

Io moth, Gananoque Lake Nature Reserve © Alice Dabrowski

Do you get this question a lot? I do, so let’s think about how to answer it. Insects don’t have to be of any human value in order for them ...

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Road Proposal Threatens Mer Bleue Internationally Significant Wetland

August 19, 2021–Jakob Mueller

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Climate Change•Habitat•Land-use planning•Reduce Your Footprint•Wetlands

Mer Bleue © Joe CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

In Ottawa, municipal politicians are backing a project that would build a multi-lane artery across a section of the city’s Greenbelt, fragmenting habitat and impacting the edge of a wetland ...

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