This Month
April is Citizen Science Month
Get outside and share what you see to further wildlife research and policy.
Monarchs are migrating! Help scientists track these at-risk butterflies.
Are you set up on iNaturalist.ca to log wildlife observations? Get started.
Follow the Monarchs as they make their way home this spring.
Mark your calendar to log Monarch Butterflies as they migrate south.
It’s National Wildlife Week! Learn about the flagship species.
We’re awakening our wild senses this week! Explore wild hearing.
Smell the scent of survival! Learn more at NWW.
Seeing is believing! What can wildlife see? Learn more!
Get a taste for your habitat! Learn more.
Good vibrations! Explore your wild sense of touch.
Let your senses lead you to take action! Share what you’ve learned on your favourite social channel.
Enter your photo based on April’s theme: Happy Moment
Have you seen the winners of the 2025 Reflections of Nature Photo Contest? Check them out.
Share today’s Photo of the Day on your fav social channel.
Did you submit a photo to the CWF Photo Club? Maybe upload it to iNaturalist.ca, at the same time!
Check out the newest poster in our “WILD About…” series: Wild About Grasslands!
Have you been following CanadasGrasslands.ca? It’s time to take action!
Dust off your gardening gloves – it’s time garden for wildlife!
Get recognized for your wildlife-friendly garden! Learn more.
Part of the Love Your Lake program? It’s time to download your report.
Find and participate in a shoreline clean up near you! Here are some easy DIY steps
Happy Earth Day! Check out these Earth Day webinars.
Are you ready? Make sure you are ready to go.
The City Nature Challenge starts today! Get out and log your observations!
Did you make some observations yesterday? Find a new location in your city and get some more.
Visit a greenspace near you you’ve never been before. Bring your phone and make some observations.
LAST DAY to make wildlife observations for the City Nature Challenge!
Know your birds from your bees? Help ID uploaded observations from the City Nature Challenge.
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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.
