Today, September 30, on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we honour the survivors of residential schools and remember the children who never returned home. This day calls us to reflect, to learn, to listen, and to take action — socially, politically, and environmentally....
Every evening in Vancouver, thousands of crows fill sky in a hauntingly beautiful ritual. From every corner of the city they converge into restless black clouds, flying eastward toward a communal roost. What at first feels apocalyptic, reveals itself as one of the city’s most remarkable natural spectacles and serves as a reminder that even in dense urban cities, nature continues to adapt, thrive, and surprise us....
Back in February 2019, we launched our Biodiversity Action Agenda, which captured the collective insights of a four-part national conversation series on biodiversity conservation. The agenda set out a bold pathway for protecting biodiversity outlining recommendations in regard to strategies and plans, public engagement, policy, and political leadership. ...
While you enjoy your morning coffee, likely you aren’t thinking about how your beans affect a warbler nesting in Alberta or a Woodpecker flying in Ontario. However, coffee production in Central and South America is deeply linked to the health of bird populations that migrate thousands of kilometres to spend their summers in Canada. ...
The Health Care Forest project partners with health care facilities across Canada to rewild their grounds by planting trees and creating biodiverse green spaces. This initiative supports patient and staff well-being, promotes biodiversity recovery, and helps combat climate change through nature-based healing environment....
A new public art and climate initiative brings life-sized puppet animals on a 20,000km journey from the Congo Basin to the Arctic, symbolizing the mass displacement caused by climate change. Blending art with science and rooted in storytelling, the project uses immersive performance to engage the senses for urgent action....
Biodiversity isn’t just out in the wild - it’s all around us, even in the heart of our cities. In this episode of our podcast, Ann talks with urban ecologist Nina-Marie Lister about why urban nature matters and how we can help urban biodiversity thrive....
In 1990, the Muppets delivered a haunting message about biodiversity loss and environmental collapse during The Earth Day Special. Thirty-five years later, their words feel more urgent than ever. ...
16 environmental organizations invited the five main federal parties to complete a survey to present their positions on key environmental priorities....
How Toronto Metropolitan University's Ecological Design Lab's Bird-Safe City project is at the forefront of creating impactful, place-based design solutions for the wildlife in our cities, tackling the biodiversity crisis....
We can use a relational approach to building infrastructure in a way that supports regeneration and disrupts the current power imbalances in designing infrastructure, particularly internet access to Indigenous communities....
The development of the Anahim Connector in British Columbia poses a significant threat to the already declining woodland caribou populations by fragmenting their critical habitat. Provincial conservation initiatives have failed to reverse the decline, highlighting the urgent need for evidence-based landscape connectivity design solutions....