Conservation Awards

Do you know a conservation champion? A great way to show our appreciation for the people who do so much for nature is to nominate them for an Ontario Nature Conservation Award. We are accepting nominations for our 2022-2023 Conservation Awards until March 31st.

Owen Sound Field Naturalists Creates Updated Nature Guides

Protecting Nature With Municipalities

Please join Ontario Nature on March 8th at 7:00 pm for Reaching Canada's Protected Areas Target: Working with Municipalities. Participants in this online information session will learn about and discuss the role that Nature Network groups can play in working with municipal leaders to advance Canada’s target to protect 30 percent of our lands and waters by 2030.

Ontario Nature's Blog

We publish a weekly blog featuring diverse writers and stories that focus on protecting wild species and wild spaces. Subscribe to receive weekly email alerts about breaking conservation and environmental news from across the province.

Interesting Links and Opportunities

• Our Youth Engagement Webinar is being held TONIGHT, February 15th. Register now or look for the recording on our YouTube channel in a few days.

• The Keep the Greenbelt Promise campaign invites you to come to the Ontario legislature on Tuesday February 21st. Participants will go first to the Visitor’s Gallery for the Question Period to signal that we remain vigilant and committed to protecting the Greenbelt. After there will be continued actions to protect the Greenbelt. Register Now.

• Rally at Queen’s Park "Welcome Back Party" for the Ontario government on Saturday, February 25 (11:00am - 1:00pm).

• Watch the Alliance for a Livable Ontario presentation on what is being done to fight unwanted government changes.

• Nature on the Hill event on March 7 – 9 in Ottawa. The government delivered on their promise of showing leadership on the international stage and made big commitments at COP15, and now we need to make sure they get the job done.

• Greenbelt guardians is a new network made up of existing groups and individuals that want to protect the land extracted from the Greenbelt AND land added unnecessarily during urban boundary expansions. The primary focus of these teams is surveillance.

Events 

See our events calendar for a complete listing of events organized by Ontario Nature and Nature Network groups. 



To submit your public events for the online calendar, send them to noahc@ontarionature.org and allow up to a week for posting. Please send only events that are open to the public and no more than three per month.