Forests & Fields
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2019 Butterfly Population Stabilizing
2025-12-05
Canada can do more to help the monarch, says the Canadian Wildlife Federation's Carolyn Callaghan.
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Monarchs on the Move!
2025-12-05
Have you spotted one of these Endangered species yet? In early May, we received the first report of a Monarch Butterfly migrating back into southern Ontario.
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Living Life for Living Labs This Summer
2025-12-05
Our interest is not only in mitigating climate change, but also on how efforts to store carbon affect biodiversity. We think that there is huge potential to conserve grassland wildlife as well as store more carbon. A win-win for the environment and society.
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Give Butterflies a Place to Drink
2025-12-05
Did you know that some butterflies also get their nutrients from damp sand, compost and manure (behaviours called “mud puddling”), as well as from tree sap and moist organic matter like rotting fruit, dung and carrion?
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U.S., Mexico surpass Canada in efforts to restore monarch butterfly habitat
2025-12-05
One of nature’s greatest migrations may be returning to health after a stunning growth in the number of monarch butterflies that fluttered across North America last year. But if populations of the striking black-and-orange aviators are starting to recover, it’s no thanks to Canada, said Carolyn Callaghan of the Canadian Wildlife Federation.
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Myco Meadows: How is the Mycorrhizae Trial Site Progressing?
2025-12-05
n our Rights-of-Way as Habitat Networks project, the Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) is creating nectaring and breeding habitat for Monarch Butterflies — an umbrella species for our native pollinators. CWF partners with rights-of-way managers along the Eastern Monarch migratory path to both actively and passively restore native wildflower meadows.
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Monarch monitoring blitz begins on County’s south shore
2025-12-05
More than 50 participants gathered on the County’s South Shore Saturday in hot and humid weather to learn how to observe and monitor Monarch eggs, caterpillars and adult butterflies.
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Meet the people saving Canada’s native grasslands
2025-12-05
Grasslands sequester billions of tonnes of carbon and support hundreds of plant species and over 60 species at risk. They are also one of the world’s most endangered ecosystems
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Monarch on the Prairies?!
2025-12-05
Many older residents of the Canadian prairies talk of seeing large numbers of Monarch Butterflies flying about in the summer.
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Lanark County's experience creating welcoming habitats for butterflies.
2025-12-05
Lanark County's experience creating welcoming habitats for butterflies.
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