Ontario Nature
@ontarionature.bsky.social
We are there when nature needs us the most.
Ontario Nature has been protecting wild species and wild spaces through conservation, education and public engagement since 1931.
🌐: https://ontarionature.org/
Ontario Nature has been protecting wild species and wild spaces through conservation, education and public engagement since 1931.
🌐: https://ontarionature.org/
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We have an incredible opportunity to expand Sauble Dunes Nature Reserve by protecting 66 acres of rare habitat—home to 24 species at risk and 41 rare species. 🌿
This #GivingTuesday, your gift will be matched up to $16,000! 💚
Donate here: www.canadahelps.org/en/charities...
#ontarionature
This #GivingTuesday, your gift will be matched up to $16,000! 💚
Donate here: www.canadahelps.org/en/charities...
#ontarionature
We have an incredible opportunity to expand Sauble Dunes Nature Reserve by protecting 66 acres of rare habitat—home to 24 species at risk and 41 rare species. 🌿
This #GivingTuesday, your gift will be matched up to $16,000! 💚
Donate here: www.canadahelps.org/en/charities...
#ontarionature
This #GivingTuesday, your gift will be matched up to $16,000! 💚
Donate here: www.canadahelps.org/en/charities...
#ontarionature
November 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
We have an incredible opportunity to expand Sauble Dunes Nature Reserve by protecting 66 acres of rare habitat—home to 24 species at risk and 41 rare species. 🌿
This #GivingTuesday, your gift will be matched up to $16,000! 💚
Donate here: www.canadahelps.org/en/charities...
#ontarionature
This #GivingTuesday, your gift will be matched up to $16,000! 💚
Donate here: www.canadahelps.org/en/charities...
#ontarionature
New research from Brown University shows how woodpeckers use incredible coordination and breathing, striking with forces up to 20–30× their body weight. 🔗 www.brown.edu/news/2025-11...
Many of Ontario Nature’s reserves support a diversity of woodpecker species, vital to healthy native ecosystems.
Many of Ontario Nature’s reserves support a diversity of woodpecker species, vital to healthy native ecosystems.
Pecking with power: How tiny woodpeckers deliver devastating strikes to drill into wood
A new study reveals how woodpeckers combine breathing and whole-body coordination to drill into trees with extraordinary force.
www.brown.edu
November 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
New research from Brown University shows how woodpeckers use incredible coordination and breathing, striking with forces up to 20–30× their body weight. 🔗 www.brown.edu/news/2025-11...
Many of Ontario Nature’s reserves support a diversity of woodpecker species, vital to healthy native ecosystems.
Many of Ontario Nature’s reserves support a diversity of woodpecker species, vital to healthy native ecosystems.
Only five populations of the beautiful wood-poppy remain in Canada—all in Ontario 🌼 One population is down to a single plant, and now a developer has bought land home to another.
Learn how #Bill5 threatens the wood-poppy and how we can help repeal it:
ontarionature.org/the-impact-o...
#RepealBill5
Learn how #Bill5 threatens the wood-poppy and how we can help repeal it:
ontarionature.org/the-impact-o...
#RepealBill5
November 12, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Only five populations of the beautiful wood-poppy remain in Canada—all in Ontario 🌼 One population is down to a single plant, and now a developer has bought land home to another.
Learn how #Bill5 threatens the wood-poppy and how we can help repeal it:
ontarionature.org/the-impact-o...
#RepealBill5
Learn how #Bill5 threatens the wood-poppy and how we can help repeal it:
ontarionature.org/the-impact-o...
#RepealBill5
The Provincial Government's plan to cut Ontario’s conservation authorities from 36 to 7 could threaten watersheds and communities. 🌊 Ontario Nature has made recommendations to protect these vital wetlands.
Read more by @anushkayadav.bsky.social here: thepointer.com/article/2025...
#onpoli
Read more by @anushkayadav.bsky.social here: thepointer.com/article/2025...
#onpoli
‘Death knell for watersheds’: Ford set to shrink conservation authorities, plunge Ontario into chaos
‘Death knell for watersheds’: Ford set to shrink conservation authorities, plunge Ontario into chaos.
thepointer.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The Provincial Government's plan to cut Ontario’s conservation authorities from 36 to 7 could threaten watersheds and communities. 🌊 Ontario Nature has made recommendations to protect these vital wetlands.
Read more by @anushkayadav.bsky.social here: thepointer.com/article/2025...
#onpoli
Read more by @anushkayadav.bsky.social here: thepointer.com/article/2025...
#onpoli
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Buried in the Doug Ford govt's fall budget are changes that would remove parts of Wasaga beach from provincial protection. As I reported in August, those parts are 60% of the world’s longest freshwater beach and the main nesting area for the endangered piping plover: thenarwhal.ca/wasaga-beach...
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Buried in the Doug Ford govt's fall budget are changes that would remove parts of Wasaga beach from provincial protection. As I reported in August, those parts are 60% of the world’s longest freshwater beach and the main nesting area for the endangered piping plover: thenarwhal.ca/wasaga-beach...
🌿 Good news! Ontario Nature’s Youth Summit for Mother Earth 2026 is eligible for funding through Commonwell's L.E.A.F. Initiative — but we need your help!
💬 Show your support with a comment here:
👉 leaf.thecommonwell.ca/projects/you...
Let’s empower the next generation of environmental leaders! 💚
💬 Show your support with a comment here:
👉 leaf.thecommonwell.ca/projects/you...
Let’s empower the next generation of environmental leaders! 💚
November 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
🌿 Good news! Ontario Nature’s Youth Summit for Mother Earth 2026 is eligible for funding through Commonwell's L.E.A.F. Initiative — but we need your help!
💬 Show your support with a comment here:
👉 leaf.thecommonwell.ca/projects/you...
Let’s empower the next generation of environmental leaders! 💚
💬 Show your support with a comment here:
👉 leaf.thecommonwell.ca/projects/you...
Let’s empower the next generation of environmental leaders! 💚
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A group of volunteer “Barbed Wire Warriors” are taking down barbed wire to protect migrating wildlife?
Say less. 😍
https://www.kunc.org/regional-news/2025-10-08/barbed-wire-fences-dot-the-west-theres-a-growing-movement-to-take-them-down-for-wildlife
Say less. 😍
https://www.kunc.org/regional-news/2025-10-08/barbed-wire-fences-dot-the-west-theres-a-growing-movement-to-take-them-down-for-wildlife
Barbed wire fences dot the West. There’s a growing movement to take them down -- for wildlife
Every two and a half miles of barbed wire is responsible for killing one deer, elk or pronghorn a year, one study estimated.
www.kunc.org
November 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
A group of volunteer “Barbed Wire Warriors” are taking down barbed wire to protect migrating wildlife?
Say less. 😍
https://www.kunc.org/regional-news/2025-10-08/barbed-wire-fences-dot-the-west-theres-a-growing-movement-to-take-them-down-for-wildlife
Say less. 😍
https://www.kunc.org/regional-news/2025-10-08/barbed-wire-fences-dot-the-west-theres-a-growing-movement-to-take-them-down-for-wildlife
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Please do! Details about the fellowship and the link to apply can be found here: thenarwhal.ca/2026-indigen...
November 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Please do! Details about the fellowship and the link to apply can be found here: thenarwhal.ca/2026-indigen...
Tonight is your last chance to get a glimpse of the Beaver Moon, the biggest supermoon of 2025. Learn why beavers are true ecosystem superheroes in ON Nature's most-loved magazine story here:
catalog.ontarionature.org/winter-2024/...
#beavermoon #supermoon #onnature #beaver
catalog.ontarionature.org/winter-2024/...
#beavermoon #supermoon #onnature #beaver
November 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Tonight is your last chance to get a glimpse of the Beaver Moon, the biggest supermoon of 2025. Learn why beavers are true ecosystem superheroes in ON Nature's most-loved magazine story here:
catalog.ontarionature.org/winter-2024/...
#beavermoon #supermoon #onnature #beaver
catalog.ontarionature.org/winter-2024/...
#beavermoon #supermoon #onnature #beaver
🚨 Areas of Natural and Scientific Interest (ANSIs) are no longer untouchable — a boundary was quietly shifted for the Garden Hill ANSI near Port Hope without Indigenous consultation or public transparency.
No land in Ontario is safe.
🔗: ontarionature.org/news-release...
#RepealBill5
No land in Ontario is safe.
🔗: ontarionature.org/news-release...
#RepealBill5
Areas of Natural and Scientific Interest Now Under Threat
Port Hope, November 4, 2025 – The Government of Ontario continues to flood the zone – a strategy of overwhelming individuals or groups with information, making it difficult to respond ...
ontarionature.org
November 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
🚨 Areas of Natural and Scientific Interest (ANSIs) are no longer untouchable — a boundary was quietly shifted for the Garden Hill ANSI near Port Hope without Indigenous consultation or public transparency.
No land in Ontario is safe.
🔗: ontarionature.org/news-release...
#RepealBill5
No land in Ontario is safe.
🔗: ontarionature.org/news-release...
#RepealBill5
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Those Ring of Fire ads during World Series broadcasts might have you thinking mines are up and running in the remote region in northern Ontario, but that's not the case and the Ford government should be upfront about it, writes @elaineanselmi.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/opinion-blue...
Don’t be fooled by the Ontario Ring of Fire ads aired during Blue Jays games | The Narwhal
Doug Ford’s ads during Blue Jays World Series games suggest mines are up and running in the Ring of Fire in northern Ontario, but that’s not true
thenarwhal.ca
October 31, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Those Ring of Fire ads during World Series broadcasts might have you thinking mines are up and running in the remote region in northern Ontario, but that's not the case and the Ford government should be upfront about it, writes @elaineanselmi.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/opinion-blue...
That’s a wrap! 🌿 Ontario Nature joined @naturecanada.bsky.social Nature on the Hill in Ottawa this week, meeting face-to-face with decision-makers to call for action to protect, restore, and invest in nature.
#NatureBuildsOurNation
#NatureBuildsOurNation
October 31, 2025 at 6:39 PM
That’s a wrap! 🌿 Ontario Nature joined @naturecanada.bsky.social Nature on the Hill in Ottawa this week, meeting face-to-face with decision-makers to call for action to protect, restore, and invest in nature.
#NatureBuildsOurNation
#NatureBuildsOurNation
🦇 It’s #BatWeek! Ontario is home to 8 bat species and heartbreakingly, 7 are now endangered. From pest control to pollination, bats keep our ecosystems in balance. Let’s protect the night’s unsung heroes. 🌙
Learn more here:
onnaturemagazine.com/bat-guide.html
#bats #OntarioNature
Learn more here:
onnaturemagazine.com/bat-guide.html
#bats #OntarioNature
October 31, 2025 at 1:32 PM
🦇 It’s #BatWeek! Ontario is home to 8 bat species and heartbreakingly, 7 are now endangered. From pest control to pollination, bats keep our ecosystems in balance. Let’s protect the night’s unsung heroes. 🌙
Learn more here:
onnaturemagazine.com/bat-guide.html
#bats #OntarioNature
Learn more here:
onnaturemagazine.com/bat-guide.html
#bats #OntarioNature
Big news — we’ve moved! 🌿
Please note our new address:
192 Spadina Ave, Suite 110
Toronto, ON M5T 2C2
Our new space will help us continue protecting Ontario’s wild species and spaces.
Stay tuned for updates from our new home! 💚
#ontarionature #moving #toronto #newaddress
Please note our new address:
192 Spadina Ave, Suite 110
Toronto, ON M5T 2C2
Our new space will help us continue protecting Ontario’s wild species and spaces.
Stay tuned for updates from our new home! 💚
#ontarionature #moving #toronto #newaddress
October 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Big news — we’ve moved! 🌿
Please note our new address:
192 Spadina Ave, Suite 110
Toronto, ON M5T 2C2
Our new space will help us continue protecting Ontario’s wild species and spaces.
Stay tuned for updates from our new home! 💚
#ontarionature #moving #toronto #newaddress
Please note our new address:
192 Spadina Ave, Suite 110
Toronto, ON M5T 2C2
Our new space will help us continue protecting Ontario’s wild species and spaces.
Stay tuned for updates from our new home! 💚
#ontarionature #moving #toronto #newaddress
🎃👻 Let’s go BOO Jays, let’s go!🐦
a man wearing a blue jays jersey stands on the field
ALT: a man wearing a blue jays jersey stands on the field
media.tenor.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:31 AM
🎃👻 Let’s go BOO Jays, let’s go!🐦
The intent of Ontario’s Environmental Bill of Rights has been watered down, says Tony Morris of @ontarionature.bsky.social — it’s become more performative than practical, limiting real public input on environmental decisions.
More here:
🔗 thenarwhal.ca/environmental-bill-of-rights-teeth
More here:
🔗 thenarwhal.ca/environmental-bill-of-rights-teeth
October 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The intent of Ontario’s Environmental Bill of Rights has been watered down, says Tony Morris of @ontarionature.bsky.social — it’s become more performative than practical, limiting real public input on environmental decisions.
More here:
🔗 thenarwhal.ca/environmental-bill-of-rights-teeth
More here:
🔗 thenarwhal.ca/environmental-bill-of-rights-teeth
Last Monday, Ontario Nature and our Nature Network partners hosted the first Nature at Queen’s Park, meeting face-to-face with MPPs and urging the provincial government to repeal Bill 5 and replace it with something better. Make your voice heard:
ontarionature.good.do/repeal-bill-...
#RepealBill5
ontarionature.good.do/repeal-bill-...
#RepealBill5
October 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Last Monday, Ontario Nature and our Nature Network partners hosted the first Nature at Queen’s Park, meeting face-to-face with MPPs and urging the provincial government to repeal Bill 5 and replace it with something better. Make your voice heard:
ontarionature.good.do/repeal-bill-...
#RepealBill5
ontarionature.good.do/repeal-bill-...
#RepealBill5
OPINION: Ontario Nature wrote about Bill 5’s “special economic zones" in @thenarwhal.ca.
Global examples in China, India and Mexico show how SEZs lead to pollution, land grabs and weakened protections.
Ontario is heading down the same dangerous road.
Read here 🔗: thenarwhal.ca/ontario-spec...
Global examples in China, India and Mexico show how SEZs lead to pollution, land grabs and weakened protections.
Ontario is heading down the same dangerous road.
Read here 🔗: thenarwhal.ca/ontario-spec...
October 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
OPINION: Ontario Nature wrote about Bill 5’s “special economic zones" in @thenarwhal.ca.
Global examples in China, India and Mexico show how SEZs lead to pollution, land grabs and weakened protections.
Ontario is heading down the same dangerous road.
Read here 🔗: thenarwhal.ca/ontario-spec...
Global examples in China, India and Mexico show how SEZs lead to pollution, land grabs and weakened protections.
Ontario is heading down the same dangerous road.
Read here 🔗: thenarwhal.ca/ontario-spec...
It's #BatWeek! 🦇 Powerful work by Shawanaga First Nation: combining Indigenous-knowledge and science to protect endangered bats like the little brown myotis in Ontario. Read more @thenarwhal.ca 👉 thenarwhal.ca/shawanaga-fi... #Conservation #IndigenousLeadership
Shawanaga First Nation gathers to help endangered bats | The Narwhal
In Ontario’s Georgian Bay region, Shawanaga First Nation leads an effort to protect little brown myotis bats
thenarwhal.ca
October 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
It's #BatWeek! 🦇 Powerful work by Shawanaga First Nation: combining Indigenous-knowledge and science to protect endangered bats like the little brown myotis in Ontario. Read more @thenarwhal.ca 👉 thenarwhal.ca/shawanaga-fi... #Conservation #IndigenousLeadership
Ontario Nature is in @thenarwhalca!
We break down Bill 5's "special economic zones" and look at global examples of how SEZ have destroyed ecosystems, displaced communities and weakened protections.
🔗: thenarwhal.ca/ontario-spec...
#onpoli #repealbill5
We break down Bill 5's "special economic zones" and look at global examples of how SEZ have destroyed ecosystems, displaced communities and weakened protections.
🔗: thenarwhal.ca/ontario-spec...
#onpoli #repealbill5
October 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Ontario Nature is in @thenarwhalca!
We break down Bill 5's "special economic zones" and look at global examples of how SEZ have destroyed ecosystems, displaced communities and weakened protections.
🔗: thenarwhal.ca/ontario-spec...
#onpoli #repealbill5
We break down Bill 5's "special economic zones" and look at global examples of how SEZ have destroyed ecosystems, displaced communities and weakened protections.
🔗: thenarwhal.ca/ontario-spec...
#onpoli #repealbill5
Nature at Queen's Park is happening now! Our Nature Network leaders from across Ontario are at Queen’s Park meeting with MPPs to advocate for stronger protections for wetlands, endangered species, and protected areas. Stay tuned!
#NatureAtQueensPark #ONpoli #OntarioNature
#NatureAtQueensPark #ONpoli #OntarioNature
October 20, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Nature at Queen's Park is happening now! Our Nature Network leaders from across Ontario are at Queen’s Park meeting with MPPs to advocate for stronger protections for wetlands, endangered species, and protected areas. Stay tuned!
#NatureAtQueensPark #ONpoli #OntarioNature
#NatureAtQueensPark #ONpoli #OntarioNature
Polar bears lost its last line of legal defence the day Bill 5 became law. Now, Ontario's polar bears could be extinct in 45 years.
More here: thepointer.com/article/2025...
#RepealBill5 #PolarBears
More here: thepointer.com/article/2025...
#RepealBill5 #PolarBears
Ontario polar bears could be ‘extinct in 45 years’ as Ford’s Bill 5 strips remaining protections
Ontario polar bears could be ‘extinct in 45 years’ as Ford’s Bill 5 strips remaining protections
thepointer.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Polar bears lost its last line of legal defence the day Bill 5 became law. Now, Ontario's polar bears could be extinct in 45 years.
More here: thepointer.com/article/2025...
#RepealBill5 #PolarBears
More here: thepointer.com/article/2025...
#RepealBill5 #PolarBears
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Reptiles and Amphibians of Hamilton: a Guided Hike at Sheelah Dunn Dooley Nature Sanctuary 🐍🐸
Join Ontario Nature to learn about the reptiles and amphibians of Hamilton and how you can contribute to their conservation.
📅 Wed Oct 29, 2025 | 3-5 PM
📍 Burlington, ON
🔗 Registration >> buff.ly/Wjq4Ipc
Join Ontario Nature to learn about the reptiles and amphibians of Hamilton and how you can contribute to their conservation.
📅 Wed Oct 29, 2025 | 3-5 PM
📍 Burlington, ON
🔗 Registration >> buff.ly/Wjq4Ipc
October 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Reptiles and Amphibians of Hamilton: a Guided Hike at Sheelah Dunn Dooley Nature Sanctuary 🐍🐸
Join Ontario Nature to learn about the reptiles and amphibians of Hamilton and how you can contribute to their conservation.
📅 Wed Oct 29, 2025 | 3-5 PM
📍 Burlington, ON
🔗 Registration >> buff.ly/Wjq4Ipc
Join Ontario Nature to learn about the reptiles and amphibians of Hamilton and how you can contribute to their conservation.
📅 Wed Oct 29, 2025 | 3-5 PM
📍 Burlington, ON
🔗 Registration >> buff.ly/Wjq4Ipc
Nature vs. nightlife in the Don Valley: Toronto’s naturalists are taking a stand against raves wrecking their restoration work.
torontolife.com/city/toronto...
#toronto #onpoli #donvalley #ontarionature
torontolife.com/city/toronto...
#toronto #onpoli #donvalley #ontarionature
Toronto's naturalist community is taking down Don Valley raves - Toronto Life
City council just agreed to draft an anti-rave action plan for the area
torontolife.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Nature vs. nightlife in the Don Valley: Toronto’s naturalists are taking a stand against raves wrecking their restoration work.
torontolife.com/city/toronto...
#toronto #onpoli #donvalley #ontarionature
torontolife.com/city/toronto...
#toronto #onpoli #donvalley #ontarionature
Bill 5 puts Ontario’s polar bears at greater risk. “In addition, under the Endangered Species Act, it was prohibited to harm or damage polar bear habitat...With Bill 5 being passed, that seems no longer likely to be the case.” — Shane Moffatt @ontarionature.bsky.social
🔗: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
🔗: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Environmental group says Bill 5 threatens polar bears in Ontario | CBC News
The environmental organization Ontario Nature says Ontario’s Bill 5 puts the future of polar bears in the province at risk.
www.cbc.ca
October 15, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Bill 5 puts Ontario’s polar bears at greater risk. “In addition, under the Endangered Species Act, it was prohibited to harm or damage polar bear habitat...With Bill 5 being passed, that seems no longer likely to be the case.” — Shane Moffatt @ontarionature.bsky.social
🔗: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
🔗: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...