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renetan: One more day

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:44:56 -0400

One more day

artstech: Wait what? The Amazon gone by 2196? “Visualizing All...

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:17:19 -0400

Wait what? The Amazon gone by 2196?

“Visualizing All The Non-Renewable Resources We Have Left” via this BBC Infographic

Scary.

Learn more about proposals that would gut the Endangered Species...

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:09:09 -0400

Learn more about proposals that would gut the Endangered Species Act at: www.protectendangeredspecies.ca

Ha.

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:50:47 -0400

Ha.

Coyote, credit: V. Crich

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:52:49 -0400

Coyote, credit: V. Crich

"As the poet said, ‘Only God can make a tree,’ probably because it’s so hard to..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:08:06 -0400

“As the poet said, ‘Only God can make a tree,’ probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.”

- Woody Allen

Banded hairstreak butterfly, credit: Peter Ferguson

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:06:08 -0400

Banded hairstreak butterfly, credit: Peter Ferguson

Can’t wait to pick wild raspberries this summer.

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:06:00 -0400

Can’t wait to pick wild raspberries this summer.

animals-animals-animals: Bobolink (by Kelly Colgan Azar)

Thu, 09 May 2013 10:35:02 -0400

animals-animals-animals:

Bobolink (by Kelly Colgan Azar)

turtlefeed: These two cuties come via Friends of Ontario...

Wed, 08 May 2013 13:16:41 -0400

turtlefeed:

These two cuties come via Friends of Ontario Snapping Turtles (FROST), a group that’s trying to get snappers off the hunting list. Snappers, by the way, are a protected species in Ontario so it seems mildly insane that the Canadian government would allow anyone to harvest them as food.

If you want to help, you can read more here.

This is a great cause. Save the Snapper! Learn more here: http://www.ontarionature.org/protect/campaigns/snapping_turtle.php

funnywildlife: Saw-whet owl 9 by Jen St. Louis on Flickr.

Tue, 07 May 2013 10:37:00 -0400

funnywildlife:

Saw-whet owl 9 by Jen St. Louis on Flickr.

aworldwithaview: Fairy Lake, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

Mon, 06 May 2013 15:40:28 -0400

aworldwithaview:

Fairy Lake, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

The Prothonotary Warbler is endangered provincially and...

Fri, 03 May 2013 11:35:00 -0400

The Prothonotary Warbler is endangered provincially and nationally. Help us protect vulnerable species and add your voice, here http://www.ontarionature.org/act/action_alerts/alert_template.php?n_code=593

Photo credit Laura Gooch.

So true.

Thu, 02 May 2013 12:25:23 -0400

So true.

The Boreal Forest, Canada The Canadian Boreal Forest is one of...

Wed, 01 May 2013 12:44:11 -0400

The Boreal Forest, Canada

The Canadian Boreal Forest is one of the biggest forests and wetland ecosystems which are still left on the face of the earth (a Boreal Forests are also known as ”Taiga”). The Canadian Boreal Forest has a very large populations of wolves, grizzly bears, and woodland caribou. The Canadian Boreal Forest contains about 1.5 million lakes which are 80% earth’s fresh water (excluding frozen areas) also some of Canada’s largest lakes can be found there. In Alberta, around 90% of cutlines (almost a decade later) have not yet regrown and mark the earth as man made scars(Cutlines are narrow and linear features created as a part of geophysical surveys). Instead cutlines accumulate water and become small canals.

Wood turtle, Photo credit: Mike Baranski

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:06:00 -0400

Wood turtle, Photo credit: Mike Baranski

peregrineinastoop: Barn Swallow by Arlo West Great shot of the...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:01:42 -0400

peregrineinastoop:

Barn Swallow by Arlo West

Great shot of the barn swallow, which is listed as threatened in Ontario.

fairy-wren: grey squirrels investigating some red-headed...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:34:56 -0400

fairy-wren:

grey squirrels investigating some red-headed woodpeckers

(photos by earl reinink)

Spring peeper; Photo: Bea Laporte.

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:27:00 -0400

Spring peeper; Photo: Bea Laporte.

Our Conservation Science Manager, John Urquhart, spent the day...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:01:52 -0400

Our Conservation Science Manager, John Urquhart, spent the day at Ontario Nature’s Lost Bay Nature Reserve diving for turtles. Talk about unique job perks!