Forests & Fields
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Surveying for Monarch Butterflies on Main Duck Island
2025-12-05
The end of August and start of September is a time of change. Leaves begin changing colours and temperatures slowly (but surely) begin to lower. It’s also the time when the iconic Monarch Butterfly migrates south from Canada to their overwintering grounds in Mexico!
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Three Amigos Connected by One Tiny Species
2025-12-05
As I write this, our CEO Sean Southey, two of my teammates and I are en-route home from a Summit at the University of Minnesota that brought three nations of people together to reconnect and energize our collective efforts to recover a micro, mighty species.
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Study ties hay/pasture conversion to biodiversity loss
2025-12-05
The federal government’s climate change mitigation strategy encourages the conversion of farmland to hay and pasture but this Ontario study shows a trend in the opposite direction.
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Tracking Bats in Ottawa Area
2025-12-05
Bat researchers are trying to learn what the Little Brown Bat is doing in the Ottawa area.
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The Secret Lives of Bees and Wasps
2025-12-05
I think it’s safe to say that when most of us hear about bees or wasps we think of honey, trying not to get stung or maybe even pollination. But there is a diverse and remarkable world that awaits to be discovered when it comes to this very large group of insects.
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Nature’s Clean Up Crew
2025-12-05
Take a look below at some of Canada’s most popular scavengers and some that just may surprise you.
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Lanark County takes step to protect turtles along county roads
2025-12-05
Lanark County Public Works staff are playing a part in reducing turtle mortality on county roads, and the public is invited to help!
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Living Lab on the Radio
2025-12-05
Listen to their interview here to learn more about participants’ experiences within Living Lab – Central Prairies, and the importance of the project to ranchers, researchers and conservationists alike.
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More Annual Croplands Means Less Eastern Meadowlarks
2025-12-05
New research by the Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) shows a large and increased conversion of perennial pasture and forage to annual cropland across the Mixedwood Plains Ecozone in Ontario and Quebec.
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LOVE BUGS!
2025-12-05
A CWF conservation expert tells us why insects might be our best ecological allies… and why we must act now to prevent a collapse of the world’s bugs.
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