Skip to main content
CWF logo
Sign In
Username

Password
Forgot?
Not a Member?   Register Today
Français
Donate
Shop
Subscribe
  • Donate
    • Ways to Give
    • Single
    • Monthly
    • Shop CWF
    • Adopt-an-animal
    • Fundraise
    • In Tribute
      • In Honour
      • In Memory
    • Gift of Securities
    • Symbolic Gifts
    • Legacy Giving
    • Corporate
      • Major Gifts
      • Sponsorship
  • About Us
    • Why Canada's Wildlife Needs Us
    • Contact Us
    • Supporter Centre
    • FAQs
    • Corporate Sponsorship
    • Jobs
    • Funding
    • Board Of Directors
    • Foundation
    • Senior Staff
    • Reports
    • Privacy & Policies
      • Accesssibility
      • Policies
  • What We Do
    • What We Do
    • Coasts & Oceans
    • Forests & Fields
    • Lakes & Rivers
    • Endangered Species & Biodiversity
    • Education & Leadership
    • Connecting With Nature
  • Resources
    • Check out our resources
    • DIY
    • Downloads
    • Encyclopedias
    • Events
    • For Educators
    • Games
    • Printed Materials
    • Reports & Papers
  • News & Media
    • Blogs
    • Brand Guidelines & Logos
    • In the News
    • Magazines
    • Newsletters
    • Press Releases
  • Blog
  • Magazine
  • Shop
  • Site Search
  • Sign In
  • Français
  • Donate
  • What We Do
  • Resources
  • News & Media
  • About Us
  • Français
  • Site Search
  • Sign In
  • Français
  • Ways to Give
    • Single
    • Monthly
    • In Honour
    • In Memory
    • Adopt an Animal
    • Shop CWF
    • Symbolic Gifts
    • Fundraising
    • Legacy Giving
    • Gift of Securities
    • Corporate
  • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • Supporter Centre
    • FAQs
    • Corporate Partnerships
    • Jobs
    • Funding
    • Board Of Directors
    • Foundation
    • Senior Staff
    • Reports
      • └ Annual
      • └ Financial
    • Privacy & Policies
      • └ Accesssibility
      • └ Policies
  • What We Do
    • Coasts & Oceans
    • Forests & Fields
    • Lakes & Rivers
    • Endangered Species & Biodiversity
    • Education & Leadership
    • Connecting With Nature


    • Agriculture & Habitat
    • American Eels
    • Aquaculture
    • Backyard Birds
    • Bats
    • Bioblitz
    • Camping and Nature
    • Chinook Salmon
    • Conservation Awards
    • Educator Training
    • Expecting Parents
    • Family Nature Club
    • Fish Passage
    • Freshwater Turtles
    • Gardening For Wildlife
    • Gardening in Schools
    • Monarchs
    • National Wildlife Week
    • Photo Club
    • Pollinators
    • Right Whale
    • River Barriers
    • Rivers to Oceans Week
    • Teens in Nature
    • Wildlife in Winter
    • Young Adults in Nature
  • Resources
    • DIY
    • Downloads
      • └ Booklets & Handouts
      • └ Colouring Pages
      • └ E-cards
      • └ Podcasts
      • └ Reports & Papers
      • └ Wallpapers
      • └ Webinars
    • Events
    • Encyclopedias
      • └ Native Plants
      • └ Invasive Aquatic Species
      • └ Common Animal Fact Sheets
      • └ Common Plant Fact Sheets
    • For Educators
      • └ Curriculum Fit
      • └ Educational Units
      • └ Lesson Plans
      • └ Resource Sheets
    • Games
      • └ Interactive
      • └ Quizzes
      • └ Crafts & Activities
    • Printed Materials
      • └ Calendar
      • └ Magazines
      • └ Manuals
      • └ Posters
  • News & Media
    • Blogs
    • Brand Guidelines & Logos
    • In The News
    • Magazines
    • Newsletters
    • Press Releases
  • Why Support Wildlife
  • |
  • What We Do
  • |
  • Get Involved
Donate
Adopt
Facebook Twitter Wordpress Youtube Instagram Pintrest

Education & Leadership

cwf-fcf.org > English > What We Do > Education & Leadership
  • What We Do
  • Education & Leadership
  • BioBlitz
  • Canadian Conservation Corps
  • Gardening for Wildlife
  • Hinterland Who's Who
  • iNaturalist Canada
  • Wild Education
  • Wild Family Nature Club
  • WILD Outside
  • WILD Spaces

Education and Leadership

Learn More

Background

CWF is dedicated to ensuring that our wildlife and natural spaces remain a treasured part of our country. The challenge is inspiring that same conservation ethic in new generations of Canadians to ensure they develop their own passion for wildlife conservation.

At CWF, we develop education programs to help connect Canadians to nature. We encourage Canadians of all ages to participate in individual conservation actions and to experience, enjoy and value nature. In an ever-increasing urban society, the greatest challenge is developing those connections to our natural world. Education and experiential learning are key pillars in our programming designed to meet this challenge.

young multicultural kids in nature

Did You Know?

mountain road icon

People who live closer to nature are healthier.
nature enthusiast icon

Children who spend time in nature are more likely to graduate high school, are more resilient and are more likely to be conservationists.
monitor controller icon

Only 7% of Canadian children spend the recommended amount of time in the outdoors.

Canadian Conservation Corps

The CWF Canadian Conservation Corps (CCC) is a three-part program that deeply engages young Canadians in our natural and cultural heritage through service, adventure and reflection. Participants (who are 18 to 30) are engaged in a comprehensive program that will require a four-month full-time commitment, progressing from wilderness journeys to field learning opportunities. The final stage of the CCC experience will engage participants in the development and delivery of a meaningful service project with their friends in their home community.

Learn More
ccc members in nature
teenagers in nature

WILD Outside

WILD Outside is a national leadership program currently focused on youth ages 15 to 18. We developed the program as a way for CWF facilitators to help young Canadians learn how to be part of a team, develop a conservation ethic and plan a community-based action project. Teams then deliver their nature connection projects in their community. The WILD Outside program will expand to 20 cities across Canada in 2020 thanks to funding provided by the Canada Service Corps initiative established by the Government of Canada.

Learn More

WILD Education

WILD Education is a professional development program that trains formal and non-formal educators to become certified instructors of Project WILD, Below Zero and WILD About Sports. These interdisciplinary programs provide a toolbox of interactive indoor and outdoor activities to engage youth in learning about, and taking action for, wildlife and the environment. Ready to join our community of WILD Educators? Workshops are available throughout Canada.

Learn More
girl gardening with net
kids outside bubbles

WILD Family Nature Club

Want to spend more time outdoors with your family but don’t know how to get started? Connect with other families and share your passion for the natural world through WILD Family Nature Clubs! By becoming a club member, you will gain instant access to family-oriented outdoor activities as well as resources to help you find (or start!) a club in your community. Be part of a growing national network of WILD Family Nature Club leaders and participants!

Learn More

Gardening for Wildlife

Gardening for Wildlife is a program that helps Canadians cultivate habitat and connect to nature in any garden. In our modern and changing landscape, local and migratory wildlife need safe areas to support them where people live, work and play. Each wildlife-friendly garden provides habitat and is a stepping stone that creates pathways for pollinators, songbirds and many other species. Making your property suitable for wildlife is an enjoyable and important way you can make a difference. Learn how when you sign up for a workshop or webinar and gain access to our supportive community.

Learn More
vegetable garden
kids playing with kit

WILD Spaces

WILD Spaces is a pollinator garden program for elementary schools. Educators are provided with tools to help pollinators with their students and shape a young generation of conservationists in the process. The program pillars are online learning in a secure virtual classroom, service learning by enhancing pollinator habitat in a school or community garden, citizen science made easy through photography, and recognition through CWF’s Garden Habitat Certification. Subject to funding, participating schools in eligible areas receive free pollinator-friendly plants and in-school workshops delivered by CWF facilitators.

Learn More

What You Can Do

mail icon

Get Weekly Wild Updates


With our new Weekly Wild Update emails, you’ll get easy DIY activities, online lesson plans, webinars and videos delivered to your inbox.

Sign Up >
sign up and add icon

Join a WILD Family Nature Club


Be part of a growing national network of WILD Family Nature Club leaders and participants.

Find One Near You >
monarch butterfly icon

Get pollinators in your curriculum


Learn how to help pollinators with your students and shape a young generation of conservationists.

Register your class. Programming runs each spring >
collaboration icon

Between 15-18 years old?


You are never too young to make a difference – especially when it comes to the positive impact you can have on the natural world around you.

Join WILD Outside >
handshake icon

Between 18-30 years old?


Change your life. Change the world! That’s the promise of the CWF Canadian Conservation Corps.

Join Canadian Conservation Corps >
certified icon

Become a Certified WILD Educator


Take a professional development workshop and become a certified instructor of Project WILD, Below Zero and WILD about Sports.

Find a workshop near you! >
speaker icon

Become a WILD Education Facilitator


Share your passion for environmental learning with other educators by becoming a WILD Education Facilitator!

Help Train Other WILD Educators >
certified icon

Have your Wildlife-friendly Garden Certified


Our Garden Habitat Certification recognizes the efforts Canadians are taking to meet the habitat needs of wildlife.

Certify Your Garden >
app icon

Use iNaturalist.ca in your lessons


Contribute to the ongoing inventory of Canada’s species by downloading iNaturalist.ca and uploading your observations!

Upload an observation >
binoculars icon

Have your group participate in a Bioblitz


People from all walks of life — expert and amateur naturalists, taxonomic scientists and the general public — can be directly involved in determining the health of an area by participating in a Bioblitz!

Find one near you >

Related Resources

news icon
In the News

download icon
Downloads

video icon
Lesson Plans

blog icon
Blogs

gardening tools icon
Videos

webinar icon
Webinar

curriculum icon
Curriculum Fit

educational app icon
Educational Units

Sign Up for Timely Articles and Tips

 

Please add me to CWF's online community. I will receive wildlife and conservation updates, the latest news and features, opportunities to support CWF’s mission and special CWF and partner e-mail offers for free! I know that I can unsubscribe at any time

   Please leave this field empty

Our Encyclopedias

The Canadian Wildlife Federation’s A to Z guides can help you decipher between native and imported plants and figure out the identity of that invasive pest in your yard.  

Read More

School Webinars

Webinars targeting educators and students.

Read More

Resource Sheets

Resource Sheets

Read More

Lesson Plans

Download relevant Canadian wildlife and conservation lesson plans from the Canadian Wildlife Federation.

Read More
arrow

Learn more

Donate Today

Donate to support Canadian wildlife conservation!

DONATE NOW
Facebook Twitter Wordpress Youtube Instagram Pinterest
CWF

About Us

  • Ways to Give
  • Contact Us
  • Supporter Centre
  • Corporate Sponsorship
  • Careers
  • Funding
  • Board of Directors
  • Foundation
  • Reports
  • Accessibility
  • Privacy & Policies

What We Do

  • Endangered Species & Biodiversity
  • Lakes & Rivers
  • Coasts & Oceans
  • Forests & Fields
  • Education & Leadership
  • Connecting With Nature

Explore

  • Agriculture & Habitat
  • American Eels
  • Aquaculture
  • Bats
  • Below Zero
  • Bioblitz
  • Canadian Conservation Awards
  • Canadian Conservation Corps
  • #DoMoreForWildlife
  • Fish Passage
  • Freshwater Turtles
  • Gardening For Wildlife
  • Great Canadian Campout
  • Monarchs
  • Mother Goose
  • Photo Club
  • Pollinators
  • Reconnecting Canadians
  • Right Whale
  • River Barriers
  • Salmon
  • Rivers to Oceans Week
  • Wild About Birds
  • WILD Education
  • WILD Family Nature Club
  • WILD Outside
  • WILD Spaces

News & Media

  • Blogs
  • Newsletters
  • Press Releases
  • Magazines
  • In the News
  • Branding Guidelines & Logos

Resources

  • DIY
  • Downloads
  • Encyclopedias
  • Events
  • For Educators
  • Games
  • Reports & Papers
  • Manuals

Partner Websites

  • AquaticHabitat.ca
  • BanWithAPlan.org
  • Canadian Marine Animal Response
  • Foundation
  • Hinterland Who's Who
  • iNaturalist.ca
  • Love Your Lake
  • Quest for Canada's Great Whales
Français - Accueil

© 2021 Canadian Wildlife Federation. All Rights Reserved.

Charitable registration # 10686 8755 RR0001