Forests & Fields
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Flies: The Unsung Heroes of Pollination
2025-12-05
Name a pollinator. Any pollinator. Did bees come to mind? Or maybe butterflies? What about flies? Probably not.
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Top 10 Species Finds on iNaturalist.ca
2025-12-05
iNaturalist Canada (also known as iNaturalist.ca) has hit a major milestone – more than 1 million verifiable observations in Canada. These confirmed sightings span from Canada’s East Coast to the western edges of British Columbia, and from Southern Saskatchewan all the way up to the most northern reaches of the country.
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Hola Monarcha!
2025-12-05
Guest blogger Donna Cook is a nature interpreter who writes about her recent visit to the Monarch Butterflies’ overwintering grounds in Mexico.
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Hydro Ottawa’s pollinator meadow is for the birds (and the bees)
2025-12-05
Since the new transformer station requires only five acres of the property, Hydro Ottawa partnered with the City of Ottawa, Rideau Valley Conservation Authority and Canadian Wildlife Federation, to create one of the largest pollinator meadows of its kind in eastern Ontario. Adjacent to its future station, the agreement means that 15 acres will be dedicated to a pollinator meadow which is scheduled for seeding during 2021’s upcoming planting season. A four acre tree reforestation area was planted in 2020 with 2,750 trees thanks to the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority.
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How the tiny western chorus frog could stop Doug Ford’s Highway 413
2025-12-05
The western chorus frog is about as small as your thumb, but it could prove to be a large obstacle to Premier Doug Ford’s plans for building Highway 413.
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How 'bat boxes’ could help revive the depleting bat population
2025-12-05
The Wildlife Conservation Society Canada and the Canadian Wildlife Federation, with support from Environment and Climate Change Canada, launched the Canadian Bat Box Project this year to help bat populations recover with the assistance of community scientists
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Guardians of Canada’s Grasslands
2025-12-05
I didn’t grow up on the prairies, but as a kid I dreamed that I did. I read about life in the “wild west” and watched the movies. In my mind, I was a cowpoke, riding a horse and tending cattle in the vast grassland expanses of the Great Plains.
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Growing concerns answered
2025-12-05
Retailers embracing sustainability, supporting local ecosystems and pollinators
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Growing wildflowers instead of grass beneficial for pollinators: biologist
2025-12-05
Carolyn Callaghan, a biologist with the Canadian Wildlife Federation, says many people love the look of a freshly mown lawn, but letting wildflowers grow instead is much better for the environment.
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