Ontario Nature
@ontarionature.bsky.social
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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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@ontarionature.bsky.social
· Nov 14
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
Sign and share our Action Alert to urge Minister McCarthy and your local MPP to re-empower the Conservation Authorities and not proceed with the consolidation from 36 to just seven overseen by a new centralized provincial agency.
✍️: ontarionature.good.do/conservation...
✍️: ontarionature.good.do/conservation...
Re-empower Conservation Authorities
Join me in opposing changes to the mandate, resourcing and independence of conservation authorities that make it harder for them to fulfill their crucial role.
ontarionature.good.do
December 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Sign and share our Action Alert to urge Minister McCarthy and your local MPP to re-empower the Conservation Authorities and not proceed with the consolidation from 36 to just seven overseen by a new centralized provincial agency.
✍️: ontarionature.good.do/conservation...
✍️: ontarionature.good.do/conservation...
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As a case led by nine First Nations challenging Ontario’s Bill 5 winds its way through the courts, two grassroots organizers from Attawapiskat want to bring in their perspectives on the Breathing Lands — beyond the Ring of Fire: thenarwhal.ca/bill-5-lawsu...
Attawapiskat organizers ask to intervene in Bill 5 court challenge | The Narwhal
Founders of Okiniwak Indigenous Youth Movement and Friends of the Attawapiskat River want a say in Ontario court case affecting the Ring of Fire
thenarwhal.ca
December 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
As a case led by nine First Nations challenging Ontario’s Bill 5 winds its way through the courts, two grassroots organizers from Attawapiskat want to bring in their perspectives on the Breathing Lands — beyond the Ring of Fire: thenarwhal.ca/bill-5-lawsu...
Ontario’s water is at risk as the provincial government rushes Bill 60 that opens the door to privatization and weaker protections. 💧 This could put profit ahead of public health.
🔗: https://cupe.ca/ontario-water-risk-government-rushes-privatization-and-deregulation-bill-60
#KeepWaterPublic #Bill60
🔗: https://cupe.ca/ontario-water-risk-government-rushes-privatization-and-deregulation-bill-60
#KeepWaterPublic #Bill60
December 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Ontario’s water is at risk as the provincial government rushes Bill 60 that opens the door to privatization and weaker protections. 💧 This could put profit ahead of public health.
🔗: https://cupe.ca/ontario-water-risk-government-rushes-privatization-and-deregulation-bill-60
#KeepWaterPublic #Bill60
🔗: https://cupe.ca/ontario-water-risk-government-rushes-privatization-and-deregulation-bill-60
#KeepWaterPublic #Bill60
Ontario’s decision to abandon climate targets isn’t going unnoticed, voices at Queen’s Park are pushing back loud and clear.
🔗: https://thepointer.com/article/2025-11-20/ottawa-s-deprioritization-of-climate-being-heard-loud-and-clear-at-queen-s-park-ontario-abandons-climate-targets
🔗: https://thepointer.com/article/2025-11-20/ottawa-s-deprioritization-of-climate-being-heard-loud-and-clear-at-queen-s-park-ontario-abandons-climate-targets
‘Ottawa’s deprioritization of climate being heard loud and clear at Queen's Park’: Ontario abandons climate targets
‘Ottawa’s deprioritization of climate being heard loud and clear at Queen's Park’: Ontario abandons climate targets.
thepointer.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Ontario’s decision to abandon climate targets isn’t going unnoticed, voices at Queen’s Park are pushing back loud and clear.
🔗: https://thepointer.com/article/2025-11-20/ottawa-s-deprioritization-of-climate-being-heard-loud-and-clear-at-queen-s-park-ontario-abandons-climate-targets
🔗: https://thepointer.com/article/2025-11-20/ottawa-s-deprioritization-of-climate-being-heard-loud-and-clear-at-queen-s-park-ontario-abandons-climate-targets
Orcas are moving farther north and staying longer as Arctic ice melts. What’s the cause? Read more here:
🔗 https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/orcas-are-moving-north-and-staying-longer-researchers-say/
#orcas #arctic
🔗 https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/orcas-are-moving-north-and-staying-longer-researchers-say/
#orcas #arctic
Orcas are moving north and staying longer, researchers say
Newspaper of record for Nunavut, and the Nunavik territory of Quebec
nunatsiaq.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Orcas are moving farther north and staying longer as Arctic ice melts. What’s the cause? Read more here:
🔗 https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/orcas-are-moving-north-and-staying-longer-researchers-say/
#orcas #arctic
🔗 https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/orcas-are-moving-north-and-staying-longer-researchers-say/
#orcas #arctic
Ontario Nature has a rare chance to expand Sauble Dunes Nature Reserve and protect 66 acres once slated for development, home to 24 species at risk and 41 rare species. 🌿
This #GivingTuesday, your support can help make that protection permanent. 💚
Donate here: www.canadahelps.org/en/charities...
This #GivingTuesday, your support can help make that protection permanent. 💚
Donate here: www.canadahelps.org/en/charities...
December 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Ontario Nature has a rare chance to expand Sauble Dunes Nature Reserve and protect 66 acres once slated for development, home to 24 species at risk and 41 rare species. 🌿
This #GivingTuesday, your support can help make that protection permanent. 💚
Donate here: www.canadahelps.org/en/charities...
This #GivingTuesday, your support can help make that protection permanent. 💚
Donate here: www.canadahelps.org/en/charities...
Hemlock Woolly Adelgid can kill hemlock trees in as little as 4 years. Ontario Nature staff are tackling HWA at Harold Mitchell Nature Reserve to protect one of the last mature Eastern Hemlock forests in the Niagara Region. ontarionature.org/management-o... Thank you to @NiagaraCF for their support.
https://ontarionature.org/management-of-invasive-hemlock-woolly-adelgid-in-a-mature-eastern-hemlock…
November 30, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Hemlock Woolly Adelgid can kill hemlock trees in as little as 4 years. Ontario Nature staff are tackling HWA at Harold Mitchell Nature Reserve to protect one of the last mature Eastern Hemlock forests in the Niagara Region. ontarionature.org/management-o... Thank you to @NiagaraCF for their support.
Climate change is shifting when Toronto’s leaves fall, leaving yard-waste pickup out of sync. If you miss collection:
“Leave a layer of leaves throughout the winter so they can provide habitat for species.” – Melina Damián, Ontario Nature
🔗: tinyurl.com/2nvjpnrs
#toronto #leavetheleaves
“Leave a layer of leaves throughout the winter so they can provide habitat for species.” – Melina Damián, Ontario Nature
🔗: tinyurl.com/2nvjpnrs
#toronto #leavetheleaves
Autumn leaves are dropping later every year due to climate change. Is Toronto’s yard waste collection falling behind?
Leaves may be sticking around longer than usual this fall due to a “very strange year for trees,” experts say. Here’s why, and what it means for you.
tinyurl.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Climate change is shifting when Toronto’s leaves fall, leaving yard-waste pickup out of sync. If you miss collection:
“Leave a layer of leaves throughout the winter so they can provide habitat for species.” – Melina Damián, Ontario Nature
🔗: tinyurl.com/2nvjpnrs
#toronto #leavetheleaves
“Leave a layer of leaves throughout the winter so they can provide habitat for species.” – Melina Damián, Ontario Nature
🔗: tinyurl.com/2nvjpnrs
#toronto #leavetheleaves
🚨 Ontario’s 2M‑acre Greenbelt review is overdue. Critics demand action.
Ontario Nature's Tony Morris says lack of public progress on the review is disappointing. It needs to move forward, and he stressed that it’s more than just a bureaucratic exercise.
🔗: shorturl.at/joXtm
#greenbelt #onpoli
Ontario Nature's Tony Morris says lack of public progress on the review is disappointing. It needs to move forward, and he stressed that it’s more than just a bureaucratic exercise.
🔗: shorturl.at/joXtm
#greenbelt #onpoli
November 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
🚨 Ontario’s 2M‑acre Greenbelt review is overdue. Critics demand action.
Ontario Nature's Tony Morris says lack of public progress on the review is disappointing. It needs to move forward, and he stressed that it’s more than just a bureaucratic exercise.
🔗: shorturl.at/joXtm
#greenbelt #onpoli
Ontario Nature's Tony Morris says lack of public progress on the review is disappointing. It needs to move forward, and he stressed that it’s more than just a bureaucratic exercise.
🔗: shorturl.at/joXtm
#greenbelt #onpoli
“[G]iven the pattern of this government, the ultimate goal is really just to remove safeguards.” – Tony Morris, Ontario Nature.
Read about the Carolinian forest unravelling, a biodiversity hotspot disappearing fast as safeguards are stripped away.
@cangeo 🔗: canadiangeographic.ca/articles/the...
Read about the Carolinian forest unravelling, a biodiversity hotspot disappearing fast as safeguards are stripped away.
@cangeo 🔗: canadiangeographic.ca/articles/the...
November 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
“[G]iven the pattern of this government, the ultimate goal is really just to remove safeguards.” – Tony Morris, Ontario Nature.
Read about the Carolinian forest unravelling, a biodiversity hotspot disappearing fast as safeguards are stripped away.
@cangeo 🔗: canadiangeographic.ca/articles/the...
Read about the Carolinian forest unravelling, a biodiversity hotspot disappearing fast as safeguards are stripped away.
@cangeo 🔗: canadiangeographic.ca/articles/the...
November 22, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The best conservation happens through partnerships. Together with Garden Rivers First Nations, Algoma Highlands Conservancy & the City of Sault Ste. Marie, we're working to connect vital lands and waters for wildlife and community-led stewardship. Learn more here:
ontarionature.org/news-release...
ontarionature.org/news-release...
November 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The best conservation happens through partnerships. Together with Garden Rivers First Nations, Algoma Highlands Conservancy & the City of Sault Ste. Marie, we're working to connect vital lands and waters for wildlife and community-led stewardship. Learn more here:
ontarionature.org/news-release...
ontarionature.org/news-release...
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Listening tonight to Ramon Kataquapit, founder, and other organizers of the Indigenous youth movement Okiniwak was completely inspiring.
Joined by Legal Advocates for Nature's Defence for a screening of the short film “Here We Stand”, filmed on the Attawapiskat River: youtu.be/QPmwBveOAn8
#Ontario
Joined by Legal Advocates for Nature's Defence for a screening of the short film “Here We Stand”, filmed on the Attawapiskat River: youtu.be/QPmwBveOAn8
#Ontario
November 19, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Listening tonight to Ramon Kataquapit, founder, and other organizers of the Indigenous youth movement Okiniwak was completely inspiring.
Joined by Legal Advocates for Nature's Defence for a screening of the short film “Here We Stand”, filmed on the Attawapiskat River: youtu.be/QPmwBveOAn8
#Ontario
Joined by Legal Advocates for Nature's Defence for a screening of the short film “Here We Stand”, filmed on the Attawapiskat River: youtu.be/QPmwBveOAn8
#Ontario
Calling on Ottawa: protect your wetlands!
They keep our communities safe from floods, filter our water, and shelter countless species. Let decision-makers know their protection matters now more than ever. Read our letter below.
They keep our communities safe from floods, filter our water, and shelter countless species. Let decision-makers know their protection matters now more than ever. Read our letter below.
This open letter was signed by CAFES, @ontarionature.bsky.social, @ecologyottawa.bsky.social, Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club, and Friends of Stittsville Wetlands. It was submitted to Ottawa councillors and staff on November 14.
catalog.ontarionature.org/to-city-of-o...
catalog.ontarionature.org/to-city-of-o...
ON Nature magazine - To City of Ottawa re Changes to Local Provincially Significant Wetlands - Page 1
Tara Redpath Senior Planner (Acting) 110 Laurier Avenue West Ottawa, ON K1P 1J1 November 14, 2025 Dear Tara Redpath, Subject: Take Action to Protect Ottawa’s
catalog.ontarionature.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Calling on Ottawa: protect your wetlands!
They keep our communities safe from floods, filter our water, and shelter countless species. Let decision-makers know their protection matters now more than ever. Read our letter below.
They keep our communities safe from floods, filter our water, and shelter countless species. Let decision-makers know their protection matters now more than ever. Read our letter below.
Ontario is dismantling 36 conservation authorities and replacing them with 7 regional bodies. Not for efficiency, but to strip power from communities and impose top-down control.
The Doug Ford government is setting its sites on conservation authorities for the fifth time, merging the watershed protection agencies. Staff tell @fatimabsyed.bsky.social it may ‘slow approvals, create confusion’ — not to mention it's leaving them with ‘whiplash.’ thenarwhal.ca/ontario-cons...
Inside Ontario’s plan to merge 36 conservation authorities to 7 | The Narwhal
Doug Ford’s government is seeking public feedback on its plan to overhaul Ontario’s conservation authorities, reducing local agencies from 36 to 7
thenarwhal.ca
November 18, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Ontario is dismantling 36 conservation authorities and replacing them with 7 regional bodies. Not for efficiency, but to strip power from communities and impose top-down control.
Parts of Highway 401 span 18 lanes and for wildlife, that’s an almost impossible barrier. With thousands of animals killed every year, we urgently need safe wildlife crossings along the 401. 🌿🐾
Read our blog here:
ontarionature.org/wildlife-cro...
#401 #wildlifecrossings
Read our blog here:
ontarionature.org/wildlife-cro...
#401 #wildlifecrossings
November 15, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Parts of Highway 401 span 18 lanes and for wildlife, that’s an almost impossible barrier. With thousands of animals killed every year, we urgently need safe wildlife crossings along the 401. 🌿🐾
Read our blog here:
ontarionature.org/wildlife-cro...
#401 #wildlifecrossings
Read our blog here:
ontarionature.org/wildlife-cro...
#401 #wildlifecrossings
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! 💚
Reposted by Ontario Nature
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
Reposted by Ontario Nature
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