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Ontario Nature greeting cards now on sale
Get a head start on the holiday season and order your holiday cards now. This year’s card feature a pair of festive red crossbills foraging for seeds. You can select cards with a seasonal message or a blank space inside. Proceeds help support Ontario Nature’s vital conservation efforts. Spread this joyful message with your family and friends.
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Thank you for taking action on our spring appeal
Our conservation staff are wrapping up another successful field season made possible by you! If you’ve been to Petrel Point Nature Reserve recently, you’ll notice that construction of the second phase of the wheelchair accessible boardwalk is almost complete. At Sydenham River Nature Reserve, we mapped vegetation for the restoration of farmland to biodiverse floodplains that will one day create habitat for at-risk birds such as meadowlarks and cerulean warblers. We also hosted endangered ginseng workshops teaching management and monitoring strategies that will help preserve these endangered plants.
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Hooray for our Youth Council leaders!
We are very pleased to announce that three Ontario Nature Youth Council members, Aidan Brushett, Sujeethan Vigneswaran and Lisa Wang have been recognized as Starfish Canada’s Top 25 Environmentalists under 25! These young environmental leaders have spearheaded campaigns on key conservation issues, including our pollinator and climate change campaigns. As they move on to university this fall, there’s no doubt they will continue to be inspirational environmental leaders. Follow the Youth Council on Facebook and Instagram for updates on upcoming campaigns and events.
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When fire is our friend
This fall we’ll undertake a prescribed burn at our Stone Road Alvar Nature Reserve. Fire is a natural part of the ecology of grassland-alvar communities and needed in order to decrease the abundance of wood shrubs and increase the native alvar species such as nodding onion, grey-headed coneflower and climbing prairie rose. With our partner groups, we will monitor the effectiveness of the prescribed burn for maintaining habitat for species at risk. We invite you to come out and take a tour of our nature reserve with a seed collection and presentation by participating researchers on September 15th.
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Calling all bloggers!
Ontario Nature wants to celebrate the volunteers who have dedicated their time, energy and expertise to nature. Your commitment and passion for the environment is contagious and we want to spread the love! Do you have a personal story from volunteering that you want to share? We’ll be featuring selected stories on our blog. Check out Sheila's story about her work at a wildlife rehabilitation centre. If you’re interested in sharing your story, please contact Jaklynn Nimec for more details.
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We want your 2 cents
We have been inspired by what our supporters are saying about what protected places mean to them. Now we want to hear from you! Please add a comment to our guestbook to tell us why you care about protected places and read the comments from people like you across the province. Your passion for nature motivates us to push even harder to reach our goal of protecting at least 17 percent of lands and inland waters by 2020. Your stories bring the campaign to life.
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