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Nature: Canada’s Most Beautiful Classroom

  • September 25, 2020
  • by Caitlin Brant
Mounting evidence suggests that teaching children outside is hugely beneficial to their wellbeing as well as their overall education. One such study found that classes taught inside following outdoor education…
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Virtual Road-Trip: The Monarch of Manitoba’s Tallgrass Prairie

  • August 3, 2020
  • by Kailey Setter
As our virtual cross-Canada road-trip continues, we find ourselves in the southeastern part of Manitoba in one of the last remaining stands of Canada’s tall grass prairie. The sea-like swaying…
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Looking Grim: The Western Monarch Migration is Teetering on Collapse

  • March 23, 2020
  • by Jen Line
Thanksgiving in coastal California has been somber for the past two years. At least it has been for the stewards of overwintering Monarch Butterfly populations. The Thanksgiving Western Monarch Count…
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Building Local Native Seed Markets

  • March 5, 2020
  • by Jen Line
We need a source of native wildflower seed for pollinator restoration projects in eastern Ontario. Our goal at the Canadian Wildlife Federation is to transform millions of kilometres of rights-of-way…
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Top 10 Species Finds on iNaturalist.ca

  • May 7, 2019
  • by James Pagé
iNaturalist.ca has reached 1 million! 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…
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A Good Start for Monarchs

  • February 20, 2019
  • by Heather Robison
The overwintering Monarch population in Mexico has increased. Let’s help them when they make their trip home to Canada! The monarch butterfly boasts a 4,000 kilometre migratory trek – that’s…
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Hola Monarcha!

  • February 12, 2019
  • by Donna Cook
Guest blogger Donna Cook is a nature interpreter who writes about her recent visit to the Monarch Butterflies’ overwintering grounds in Mexico. Lying down in a high mountain meadow looking…
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Devastating Downfall for Western Monarchs: A Harbinger of Things to Come?

  • January 24, 2019
  • by Holly Bickerton
All along the California coast in fall and winter, there are places you can visit where colonies of adult Monarch butterflies overwinter. At the ocean’s edge, dozens or even hundreds…
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Monarch Butterflies Hit Hard This Winter

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Momma’s Monarch Watch

  • October 3, 2017
  • by Holly Bickerton
Like so many good things, it all started on a languid summer day at the cottage. The kids had fished and caught frogs, and it was still too cool for…
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