This Month
Chill Out This February!
We can all make a difference for wildlife – one day at a time.
Take a look or share this nature-based education program that celebrates winter!
It’s World Wetlands Day! Learn how some turtles handle the deep freeze.
Put the ‘WIN’ in Winter! Enter the Below Zero contest.
Know an educator? Tell them about the Below Zero contest for educators!
Let’s play outside! Find 50 ways to enjoy Canadian winters outside.
Winter banquet – have you filled up your birdfeeder lately? Get some great tips for our backyard birds.
Enter your photo based on February’s theme: Backyard Birds.
Check out the 2025 winners of the By Popular Vote! Monthly Photo Contest!
Have you subscribed to our Photo of the Day email?
Share today’s Photo of the Day on your fav social channel.
Spot some tracks in the snow or mud? Snap a pic and upload to iNaturalist.ca!
See if you can spot am American Ermine! Check out their distribution map.
Easier to spot in winter with their brown stems and burs, snap a pic of an invasive Common Burdock.
Love is in the air! Spend some time in your fav wild space and record a much-loved species.
Know your species? Show some love on the iNaturalist ‘Identify’ page.
Uncover the stories of winter’s hibernators.
Connect and learn with a new WILD Spaces series exploring educator-led school gardening.
Whether in an approved public space or your backyard, plan how to provide food in your wildlife-friendly garden.
Where’s the water? Provide this essential element in wildlife spaces.
Shelter wildlife in your wild spaces.
Help habitat by adopting these earth-friendly gardening tips.
Uncover the secret life of Canada’s Grasslands.
Explore this infographic on the hidden world of grasslands.
Find out your grasslands personality in this quiz.
Tell the Minister you value grasslands with this email.
Get involved! Find ways to help Canada’s most at-risk ecosystem.
Share the February #DoMoreForWildlife calendar.
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What Taking Action for Wildlife Means to Us
Taking action for wildlife isn’t just about getting your hands dirty. Taking action requires learning, expanding your understanding about the issues facing wildlife. It means sharing what you’ve learned with your family and friends so that they, too, can understand the threats facing wildlife.
It means documenting and submitting those observations of the wildlife around you — essential information scientists and policy makers use to effect decisions for our wildlife. It means moving ourselves and others with wildlife photography, placing our wild neighbours closer in Canadians’ hearts, which in turn influences how we treat wildlife. It means signing petitions, taking pledges — being the voices for our wildlife who are mostly silent.
And it also means digging shovels into the ground, hammering nails into wood and picking up garbage from shorelines.
This is why our CWF #DoMoreForWildlife Action Calendar includes all manner of tasks to help Canada’s wildlife. Learning about a Canadian habitat where some of our species live can be just as important as planting a tree to help that habitat thrive. Spreading what you’ve learned with others means more hearts can be moved to take action for wildlife. Sharing your wildlife photography can be just as important in helping a misunderstood species than legislating changes that will help that species survive. One leads to the other.
Thank you for every action you take to help conserve our precious Canadian wildlife.
