Forests & Fields
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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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A City-slicker Taking on the Grassland Insect Project
2025-12-05
To your average city-slicker, native grasslands may not be the first thought when it comes to a unique and diverse ecosystem.
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7 Ways to Attract Finches to Your Backyard
2025-12-05
With vivid colours of bright yellows to deep reds, they are incredible creatures! There are 13 species of finches in Canada: Evening Grosbeak, Pine Grosbeak, Gray-crowned Rosy Finch, House Finch, Purple Finch, Cassin’s Finch, Common Redpoll, Hoary Redpoll, Red Crossbill, Cassia Crossbill, White-winged Crossbill, Pine Siskin, and the American Goldfinch. If you’d like to attract them to your garden we have seven tips to help you!
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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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407 ETR is celebrating Earth Week with the announcement of new environmental partner, Conservation Halton Foundation
2025-12-05
In March 2023, 407 ETR announced funding to support Canadian Wildlife Federation and help bend the curve on biodiversity loss by restoring 12 hectares of land—the equivalent of 22 football fields— to enhance monarch butterfly and pollinator habitats along roadsides in the GTA. The Company continues to work towards its target of a 25 per cent reduction to Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. Learn more about the Company's environment, social and governance (ESG) at 407etr.com.
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Sustainability index for agri-food to be developed by fall 2022
2025-12-05
Momentum is building to establish Canada’s first agri-food sustainability index. A private–public coalition of 34 diverse partners has released the Business Case for Establishing the National Index on Agri-Food Performance to affirm Canada’s agri-food leadership in a more demanding food world.
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5 Amazing Avian Migrators
2025-12-05
Let’s celebrate International Migratory Bird Day on May 12 by learning more about some of the coolest feathered travelers that are, or will be, arriving up North for a few months!
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There’s No Hoofing Around Here, These Are Working Goats!
2025-12-05
In June, the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) Rights-of-Way (ROW) Community of Practice (CoP) — part of the CWF Rights-of-Way Habitat Restoration Network — visited the City of Toronto’s prescribed grazing pilot at Don Valley Brick Works to learn more about integrating targeted grazing into meadow management.
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Roadside monarch butterfly project
2025-12-05
More on a new project about to take flight in Eastern Ontario to bring back the monarch butterfly.
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