This Month
How Does Your Garden Grow?
Let’s dig in to help wildlife in our backyards.
It’s time to try and identify the species spotted in April.
Two more days to identify the species observed during CNC.
Even narrowing down a mammal from a reptile can help CNC!
HOW DID CANADA DO?! Check out the results from the City Nature Challenge!
Want some free seeds this spring? Request your packet of wildflower seeds.
Adopt a pollinator this spring. Proceeds go to help Canadian wildlife.
Did you know when you subscribe to one of our magazines, you’re supporting wildlife?
Enter your photo based on May’s theme: New Beginnings.
Share today’s Photo of the Day on your fav social channel.
Get ready for the start of the Reflections of Nature Photo Contest starting July 1! There’s one for kids, too!
Join the CWF Observation Nation to rack up observations and prizes!
Have you tried uploading a sound recording to iNaturalist.ca? Capture the call of a spring bird!
Spot and upload an observation of a species thriving in unexpected city spaces.
Seeing any Monarchs or other migrators yet? Try to spot one today!
See if you can tell the difference between an invasive Red-eared Slider or a native Painted Turtle.
Spot some good — and bad — insects in your garden.
What is biodiversity? Learn more.
Know an educator? Share this lesson plan: Give Biodiversity a Boost!
Is your garden biodiverse? Take stock — and while you’re at it, see if your yard qualifies as a wildlife-friendly garden!
Mission Biodiversity! Will you and the kids in your life accept the mission?
Where do you stand in biodiversity? Take the Biodiversity + Me quiz!
It’s World Biodiversity Day! What are you doing today to help biodiversity? Here are some ideas.
It’s World Turtle Day! Celebrate by adopting your own little guy.
Help nesting at-risk turtles — build a nest protector!
I spy a turtle a) on the road b) nesting c) all of the above! Upload your sighting.
Help aquatic species – organize a shoreline cleanup!
Plant a pollinator patch instead of maintaining lawn turf. Learn more.
Grow It! Don’t Mow It! Join the movement.
Get some tips and tricks for healthier remaining grassy areas.
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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.
