Hankering to make a change? Want to get your hands dirty (or, at least, slightly scuffed)? Take a look at our Take Action Fact Sheets, which will give you the tools you need to make a difference for wildlife — and feel good about yourself!
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Building a Pond with Wildlife in Mind
2025-12-05
13 Dos and Don’ts to Creating a Pond That Animals Will Benefit From
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How can you nurture the birds in your backyard as the temperature dips?
2025-12-05
Make no mistake. Stocking up on birdseed and stocking your feeder on a regular basis is an incredibly helpful way to support the birds in your backyard through the fall and winter. They need nutrients as they molt and migrate. That said, you can also supply other beneficial nutrients by planting fruit producing shrubs that’ll keep your favourite feathered friends satiated. Here are five shrubs you might consider adding to your property!
Coasts & Oceans
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Turn the Tide on Water Pollution
2025-12-05
From coast to coast to coast, it’s easy to do your part at home, work or school to protect Canada’s water. You don’t need to uproot your life to make a difference; small changes have a big impact.
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Rivers, Lakes, and Streams
2025-12-05
Think of rivers, lakes, and streams, as the blood vessels of the Earth. They carry nutrients from one part of the planet to another; in doing this they wash out toxins and return life-giving oxygen into the system.
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A Garden Stream
2025-12-05
Cascading water enhances a garden and attracts a larger variety of birds. The sound of a gurgling stream is an intoxicating draw to both people and wildlife. It enhances relaxation and helps filter out background noises that invade our lives.
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Car Buff
2025-12-05
What does the prized possession sitting in your driveway have to do with Canada’s water? Plenty.
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Connecting With Nature
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Twig Tree Decoration
2025-12-05
How better to celebrate our beloved trees than to make one as a decoration.
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How to Plant Trees and Shrubs for Wildlife
2025-12-05
One of the simplest and most effective ways to attract wildlife to your backyard is to plant native trees and shrubs. But, remember - moving day is a shock for seedlings and saplings. Make sure trees and shrubs get a healthy start on your property.
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Plant for Bees, Butterflies, and Other Pollinators
2025-12-05
Habitat loss, pesticide use, and pollution are endangering bees and butterflies across Canada. The decline of these busy pollinators puts some major food crops and flowers in danger too.
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Repel Rascally Raccoons
2025-12-05
Raccoons are very comfortable living near people. In Ontario cities, there are usually eight to 16 of these mammals per square kilometre. In some areas, that number is as high as 85!
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Backyard Camping
2025-12-05
Before you trek your five year old through the woods to set up camp, you might want to do a practice run in your backyard.
Education & Leadership
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How to Plant Trees and Shrubs for Wildlife
2025-12-05
One of the simplest and most effective ways to attract wildlife to your backyard is to plant native trees and shrubs. But, remember - moving day is a shock for seedlings and saplings. Make sure trees and shrubs get a healthy start on your property.
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Plant Project Maintenance Tips
2025-12-05
A little maintenance goes a long way in any planting project. Cleaning up an area, removing competing vegetation, and making water available will ensure that your project provides lasting benefits to wildlife.
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Water’s Worth It! Video Contest
2025-12-05
The Canadian Wildlife Federation is celebrating Rivers to Oceans Week in 2011 by launching the new Water’s Worth It! video contest. Send us a one-minute video telling us what’s so special about your local body of water and why it’s worth conserving!
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Winner of the Water’s Worth It! Video Contest
2025-10-29
Voting wrapped up last week in our Water’s Worth It! video contest, and the results are in. We’re excited to announce that Wanda Gibson of Farrellton, Quebec, is the grand prize winner of this year’s contest. It was close, but her video about the Gatineau River garnered the most votes in our online voting.
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Friend or Foe? Caterpillars
2025-12-05
We tend to give a lot of focus to butterflies and moths once they’ve become these beautiful-winged creatures. But what about when they are caterpillars?
Endangered Species & Biodiversity
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How to Plant Trees and Shrubs for Wildlife
2025-12-05
One of the simplest and most effective ways to attract wildlife to your backyard is to plant native trees and shrubs. But, remember - moving day is a shock for seedlings and saplings. Make sure trees and shrubs get a healthy start on your property.
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Help Aquatic Species at Home
2025-12-05
You can improve habitat for aquatic species in your area by taking on one of these Hinterland Who’s Who projects:
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Act
2025-12-05
Join the Canadian Wildlife Federation in making the conservation movement mainstream by making a difference in your own community — because water’s worth it!
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Friend or Foe? Caterpillars
2025-12-05
We tend to give a lot of focus to butterflies and moths once they’ve become these beautiful-winged creatures. But what about when they are caterpillars?
Forests & Fields
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Five Activities for Your Walk
2025-12-05
Don’t traipse along without purpose! Get a mission and carry it out! We’ve got five activities you can do along your walk—for wildlife and for yourself.
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O’ Christmas Tree
2025-12-05
Christmas crunch time. You’ve got five holiday parties to attend in the next three days, Fido has ripped apart the gifts you just finished wrapping, and you’ve eaten half your stash of shortbread cookies from the stress of it all. If it seems like nothing’s going quite right this festive season, get some good holiday karma by greening your Christmas tree.
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Halloween Central
2025-12-05
The year’s most frightful night is rapidly approaching and CWF is offering you some spooky treats to help celebrate!
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The Christmas Party Hop
2025-12-05
Plan a holiday party that Martha and Mother Nature would tip their hats to.
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Five Alternatives to Pesticides
2025-12-05
Spring has sprung, and along with the flowers in our gardens and buds on the trees can also come weeds through pavement cracks and mischievous insects that may dampen spring excitement.
Lakes & Rivers
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Restore a Ribbon of Life
2025-12-05
Help promote biodiversity along Canada’s shorelines by providing a buffer zone of lush greenery for our aquatic friends. <br>
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Shoreline Cleanup
2025-12-05
From plastic straws to coffee lids, everything we throw away ends up somewhere. If it doesn’t make it to a landfill, it will find its way to waterways like rivers, lakes and oceans. It really doesn’t belong there – animals can mistake that junk for food and they can get tangled up in it too. Spend some time this June making a body of water near you a cleaner environment for the animals that live there with your own shoreline cleanup.
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DIY Projects and Fact Sheets: Lakes & Rivers
2025-12-05
Are you just aching to know how to help make a difference for wildlife? The Canadian Wildlife Federation has lots of easy, fun projects and activities that you can take on to help your wild neighbours have a bright future.
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Friend or Foe? Caterpillars
2025-12-05
We tend to give a lot of focus to butterflies and moths once they’ve become these beautiful-winged creatures. But what about when they are caterpillars?
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