Around mid-January, a call came out for volunteers to participate in a wolf survey on NCC’s Kenauk property, which is less than an hour away from my house. This was the first CV event that I participated in, and I was very excited, to say the least.

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There’s a picture of water I think about a lot. It’s a picture of a burning river.

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In the global effort to fight climate change, forests, wetlands and grasslands are more and more being recognized for their important role in absorbing greenhouse gas emissions (i.e., carbon dioxide) and storing carbon over the long term. Conserving these “carbon sinks” provides a natural climate solution by absorbing the emissions that are causing climate change.

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In her song "Maybe Sparrow," singer/songwriter Neko Case speaks to a figurative sparrow as if to warn it of its impending demise, which falls on deaf ears. Case has a tendency to weave urgency for conservation into many of her songs, but on World Sparrow Day, this one is worth spotlighting.

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The recent polar vortex got members of Brent Sinclair’s low temperature biology lab (i.e., the Sinclair lab) at the University of Western Ontario thinking: How can we show just how hard winter is for us and for wildlife?

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On September 29, 2018, I participated in my first Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) Conservation Volunteers event. During the event, I and the other volunteers learned a great deal, and that’s what I would like to talk about; the educational value of volunteering, and more specifically, volunteering with NCC.

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In honour of International Women’s Day (March 8), over the course of the month we will be celebrating three young women working for the Nature Conservancy of Canada’s (NCC’s) Ontario Region.

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Read some interesting facts that the director and host of the web series Frick, I Love Nature learned while creating the educational show.

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Ontario’s Backus Woods is a stellar example of one of Canada’s most diverse life zones.

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Each unique landscape in this world — whether it’s a forest, prairie, desert or the Arctic — plays a pivotal role in nature. The Arctic, in particular, supports a variety of flora and fauna while also helping to regulate global temperatures and circulate warm and cold currents.

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