May 2024 conservation updates for Ontario Nature’s 150 member groups and their members. 
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May 2024 conservation updates for Ontario Nature’s 150 member groups and their supporters. Together, we are the voice for nature. Please share this monthly newsletter with members of your group and ask them to subscribe.

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Call to Action – Stop the 413!

Calling on Nature Network groups – please invite your members to sign our Action Alert opposing the proposed Highway 413.

This six-lane, 52-kilometre highway would have devastating impacts on nature and farmland. We need the Government of Canada to swiftly ensure the proposed highway undergoes a federal environmental assessment and that it fulfills its obligations to protect waterways, at-risk species, migratory birds and fish.

 

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Ontario Nature Annual General Meeting

Our members and member groups are the heart and soul of Ontario Nature. We’d like to invite you to join our virtual AGM, which will be a Zoom video conference on Wednesday, June 19, 2024 at 6:30 p.m. You can learn more on our webpage at: http://ontarionature.org/agm.

Ontario Nature individual members and a representative of Nature Network member groups are entitled to vote at the AGM.

 

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Waterloo Region Nature is Celebrating its 90th Anniversary!

In May of 1934, a small group of Waterloo County naturalists sent out letters with the intent of forming a Nature Club in Kitchener and Waterloo. Ten people attended that first meeting at the YMCA, and the Kitchener-Waterloo Field Naturalists was formed. Some 90 years later, the club, now known as Waterloo Region Nature (WRN), has grown into a vibrant and multi-faceted organization.

To mark this milestone, WRN is creating a set of embroidered badges to celebrate favourite natural spaces in Waterloo Region. Club members have been invited to nominate their top five locations, with the winning sites to be announced on Earth Day. Badges will be available for purchase in May 2024, the 90th anniversary of the first naturalists’ meeting in 1934!

For more information on WRN including its outings, presentations, and conservation projects, or to become a member, please visit the WRN website.

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Interesting Links and Opportunities 

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Events 

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

To submit your public events to our online calendar, email 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.

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