Connecting With Nature
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3 Water-based STEM Activities for Kids!
2025-12-05
Water activities provide an enriched sensory environment for children to explore, create, and play! Not only do these three activities invite children to have fun playing with water...
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5 Easy Ways to Make Your Backyard Bat-friendly
2025-12-05
Did you know that Canada has 19 different kinds of bats? They’re some of nature’s best pest controllers, munching on insects like moths and mosquitoes. Sadly, they’re facing serious challenges like habitat loss and disease. If you’d like to help the bats that visit your backyard, we’ve got five tips to attract them to your garden.
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7 Ways to Make Your Lawn a Place of Refuge for Pollinators
2025-12-05
Our Pollinators are in Trouble – Your Lawn Could Make All the Difference
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8 Ways to Have a Green Get Together This Season
2025-12-05
The holidays are about living large: lots of fun, food and festivities. Still, you don’t have to turn into an über-consumer. If climate change is on your mind, here are a few simple ways to trim carbon emissions, plastics and other by-products from your get-togethers and keep things stylish and seasonal.
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A monster storm didn't stop these volunteers from planting nearly 100 trees after a twister ripped through their community
2025-12-05
19 volunteers and staff members from the Canada Wildlife Federation ready to roll up their sleeves and start planting. Luckily, the area where they met wasn't badly affected by the storm, and seeing the damage gave many of them added reason to help regenerate the local greenery.
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12-year-old Dartmouth girl grows milkweed plants to help monarch butterflies
2025-12-05
Vanessa Burchill is growing and giving away hundreds of swamp milkweed seedlings so endangered monarch butterflies have somewhere safe to land and lay their eggs. A 12-year-old Dartmouth, N.S., girl is growing and giving away hundreds of milkweed plants so endangered monarch butterflies have somewhere safe to land.
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3 easy ways to create a wildlife-friendly garden at your cottage
2025-12-05
If you’re a nature enthusiast and want to transform your cottage into a haven for wildlife, creating a wildlife-friendly garden can attract animals to your yard by providing food and shelter. One of the joys of visiting the cottage is the opportunity to get back to nature and observe interesting critters like birds and butterflies, and a wildlife-friendly garden will allow you to view these animals from the comfort of your own porch.
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A Triple Effect That Has a Ripple Effect
2025-12-05
Recently, the Monarch Butterfly was officially classified as Endangered by the federal government.
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12 Wild Dates to Keep in Mind for This School Year
2025-12-05
t’s a new school year! Now is the perfect time for you to incorporate a few fun celebrations and wild activities into your upcoming plans. There are so many things in Canada — and the world — to celebrate. Pick your favourites from these options and plan something special! If you do, let us know on your favourite social media channel.
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20 Million iNaturalist.ca Observations and Counting
2025-12-05
This August, iNaturalist Canada (iNaturalist.ca) has officially surpassed a monumental milestone: 20 million wildlife observations from across the country! That’s 20 million glimpses into Canada’s incredible biodiversity, captured and shared by a growing community of nature lovers, scientists, educators and everyday explorers
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