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National Wildlife Week

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National Wildlife Week

Be One
With
Nature

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The Canadian Wildlife Federation is encouraging all Canadians to join in our Do More For Wildlife challenge. Even though we need to keep our social distance right now, there are still many ways we can come together in spirit to #DoMoreForWildlife.

From actions like learning more about our wildlife and the places they call home, to exploring (safely!)nearby nature or doing a simple project that will benefit our wildlife, take a moment to explore all the different ways you can get involved. With so many possibilities to choose from, we can all rise to the challenge to #DoMoreForWildlife

Be sure to share with us what actions you are taking to #DoMoreForWildlife

Here’s What I Am Doing

So…come on Canada. We know how to rise to the challenge!
Together, let’s Be One With Nature and #DoMoreForWildlife.

So…come on Canada. We know how to rise to the challenge!
Together, let’s Be One With Nature and #DoMoreForWildlife.

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

Education and Leadership

CWF has been a leader in conservation education and leadership programming since our inception in 1962. We deliver programs to inspire conservation ethic for all and offer training that connects people with wildlife and nature through experiential learning. Be One With Nature and #DoMoreForWildlife with one or more of these actions:

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Apply to the Canadian Conservation Corps

If you know someone between 18 and 30 years old, the Canadian Conservation Corps offers a unique opportunity for them to Change Their Life, Change The World. This exciting program offers an immersive outdoor experience, field training and the opportunity to create your own community service project. Space is limited. (For health and safety reasons, program activities are temporarily postponed and will resume.)

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Participate in WILD Outside

Looking for a great way to get young people ages 15 to 18 involved in conservation? WILD Outside is a national youth leadership program that connects local participants to plan and deliver conservation action projects in their own community. (For health and safety reasons, program activities are temporarily postponed and will resume.)

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Join CWF’s Education Community

If you’re a teacher, youth leader or guardian looking for resources and activities, then sign up to be part of CWF’s Education Community. You will receive regular weekly updates, including lesson plans, webinars, online resources and other information to help you make education wild.

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Download The Wild Gang App for Kids

This free, bilingual app features all your favourite Hinterland Who’s Who videos, online games and scavenger hunts as well as fun WILD magazine stories and projects.

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Connecting With Nature

At CWF, we want an appreciation for wildlife and nature to be an intrinsic value shared by all Canadians. We provide opportunities for people to connect with nature and to get outside and discover the benefits of immersing oneself in our outdoor world.

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At CWF, we want an appreciation for wildlife and nature to be an intrinsic value shared by all Canadians. We provide opportunities for people to connect with nature and to get outside and discover the benefits of immersing oneself in our outdoor world. Be One With Nature and #DoMoreForWildlife with one or more of these actions:

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Go on a Scavenger Hunt!

Download The Wild Gang App and head out on a scavenger hunt (safely, of course!) Nature is still open, so get outside and see how many of nature’s treasures you can find.

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Join our iNaturalist Webinar

Learn how you can contribute to a growing global database of biodiversity by submitting your own observations online at iNaturalist.ca or with the free iNaturalist Canada app.

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Get Snap Happy

Love taking photos of wildlife? Submit your best shots to our By Popular Vote Monthly Photo Contest . Enjoy simply looking at amazing wildlife photos? Cast a vote for your favourite photo in the contest or get your daily dose of wildlife delivered right to your inbox with our Photo of the Day .

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Enjoy a Free Magazine Subscription

Keep up to date on the latest wildlife and conservation news with CWF’s Canadian Wildlife magazine, or create a new wildlife enthusiast with WILD magazine for kids. CWF is offering a free six-month e-subscription (that’s three free issues) to help you stay connected to wildlife – virtually.

Subscribe using code WILD-GIFT >

Coasts and Oceans

Canada boasts the longest coastline in the world – over 202,000 km of it traversing three of the world’s five oceans. Our waters are home to magnificent marine wildlife, including the North Atlantic Right Whale, Belugas, Orcas and many others. The coasts and oceans that exist on Canada’s perimeters are vitally important to our nation. They provide benefits like food, employment, transportation, recreation and more. No matter where you live in the country, we must do all that we can to protect them.

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Canada boasts the longest coastline in the world – over 202,000 km of it traversing three of the world’s five oceans. The coasts and oceans that exist on Canada’s perimeters are vitally important to our wildlife and our nation. No matter where you live in the country, we must do all that we can to protect them. Be One With Nature and #DoMoreForWildlife with one or more of these actions:

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Reduce Your Plastic Footprint

By 2050, there will reportedly be more plastic in the ocean than fish. Take this simple quiz by going room to room in your house and discover how you can cut down on the amount of plastic you use.

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Join The Watch

It is important to know what to look for and what to do if you come across a marine animal emergency. You could make a big difference to marine animal conservation in Canada.

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Learn Who’s Who on our Coasts and Oceans

Watch our Hinterland Who‘s Who Vintage Vignette on the Harlequin Duck, the current North Atlantic Right Whale video or Ocean Commotion webisode and then share the video you watched. Or, play the Puffin Catch game.

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Add an Observation to iNaturalist Canada

Live by a coastline or have some photos from a visit to one of Canada’s beautiful ocean coasts? Post your wildlife and plant observations to the iNaturalist Canada app or on iNaturalist.ca

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Fields and Forests

Canadian fields and forests have an important role to play in supporting our communities, our economy and our wildlife. Wildlife in our fields and forests are feeling the effects of changing and declining habitat, the use of toxins such as pesticides and herbicides, and climate change. The health of the majority of Canada’s wildlife depends on conservation actions taken in our forests, fields and farmlands.

Canadian fields and forests have an important role to play in supporting our communities, our economy and our wildlife.The health of the majority of Canada’s wildlife depends on conservation actions taken in our forests, fields and farmlands. Be One With Nature and #DoMoreForWildlife with one or more of these actions:

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Grow It, Don’t Mow It

Help Canada’s pollinators by inviting them to your yard. Make your garden beautiful AND beneficial by adding native plants. Encourage your municipality to do the same by mowing less and adding native vegetation to roadsides, power corridors and other rights-of-way!

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Find out Who’s Who in our Fields and Forests

Watch a vintage Hinterland Who’s Who vignette about the bumblebee, a current video about pollinators or the webisode Pollinators – Busy Doing What?

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Check Out our Pollinator Webisode

From strawberries to apples to chocolate, one in every three bites of food we take depends on pollination. Learn what you can do to create a happy habitat in your yard for our pollinating pals.

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Add Your Observations to iNaturalist.ca

As nature comes back into bloom and our pollinators are back at work, upload your nature observations or past photos to add to a global database of biodiversity.

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Lakes and Rivers

With over two million lakes and rivers and 20 per cent of the world’s freshwater, Canada has an incredible abundance of aquatic natural resources. Canadians share a deep connection to freshwater.

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With over two million lakes and rivers and 20 per cent of the world’s freshwater, Canada has an incredible abundance of aquatic natural resources. Canadians share a deep connection to freshwater. Be One With Nature and #DoMoreForWildlife with one or more of these actions:

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Naturalize Your Shoreline

If you are a shoreline property owner, making plans to naturalize your shoreline is easier than you think. By maintaining a natural shoreline, you’re doing your part to conserve a healthy lake and a thriving wildlife population.

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Find Out Who’s Who in Our Lakes And Rivers

Watch our vintage Hinterland Who’s Who vignette on the Mallard, or the current Pacific Salmon videoand share one of the videos. Or, play our Hinterland Who’s Who Salmon Journey game.

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Take the Water Challenge!

What do a Beauty Buff, Animal Lover and Fix-It Fanatic all have in common? Our water! Find out how changing a few habits makes a big difference for our aquatic habitats.

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Add Your Observations to iNaturalist.ca

With the onset of warmer weather, our lakes and rivers are thawing from the long winter months. Head out to a lake or river near you and upload your wildlife and plant observations to add to a global database of biodiversity.

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Endangered Species and Biodiversity

Canada is fortunate to be home to thousands of wildlife species and the vast areas of land and water on which they depend. Unfortunately, many of these species are in decline, due in part to human activities. There are currently over 800 species of plants and animals at risk of being lost from Canada. There isn’t any one culprit but rather a combination of factors that are leading to species decline.

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Canada is fortunate to be home to thousands of wildlife species and the vast areas of land and water on which they depend. Unfortunately, many of these species are in decline, due in part to human activities. There isn’t any one culprit but rather a combination of factors that are leading to species decline. Be One With Nature and #DoMoreForWildlife with one or more of these actions:

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Give Turtles and Other Wildlife a Brake

All eight species of Canada’s freshwater turtles are at risk, and road mortality is one of the main reasons why. While we may not be out and about as much these days, turtles are still on the move. If you are on the roads, keep an eye out for turtles and other wildlife and allow them safe crossing. Check out our video about how to safely help a turtle cross the road.

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Discover the Diversity Of Who’s Who

Watch our Hinterland Who’s Who videos about Biodiversity or Freshwater Turtles, or the webisode Discover Biodiversity,and share one of these videos.

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Tell Us: What Pollinator Are You?

Take this fun quiz to find out what you have in common with some of our favourite pollinators. Pollinators play a vital role in our lives, yet over 40 per cent of the world’s invertebrate pollinators are facing global extinction. You can create a garden oasis for our pollinators in your backyard or on your balcony.

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Add Your Observations to iNaturalist.ca

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

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Staying Connected

We have overcome many challenges in the past and this will be no different. The last part of our challenge is the best part. It is when we start planning for the days when we can all reconnect with each other in person and enjoy nature and community together. Let’s start now by making promises for how we will #DoMoreForWildlife collectively. It’s going to be a BIG WILD PARTY!

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Keep connected with CWF and #DoMoreForWildlife by:

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Join a Shoreline Clean Up

Once we get the all clear that it is safe to do so, it’s time to clean up our shorelines. Join CWF in taking part in a shoreline clean up near you or plan your own community event.

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Participate in WILD Outside

Take Part in the City Nature Challenge

Coming up later this month, the City Nature Challenge is a global initiative where cities connect in a friendly challenge to see who can contribute the most nature observations to a global biodiversity database using iNaturalist.

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Join CWF’s Education Community

Participate in a Bioblitz

These fun events bring together people from all walks of life – including taxonomists, biologists and the general public – to catalogue as many species as possible in a specific area over a set time period. It’s like taking nature’s selfie! Join a CWF bioblitz or gather your community together to host your own.

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Took the Water Challenge or Plastic Footprint quiz

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What is National Wildlife Week?

In 1947, Canadian Parliament officially proclaimed the week of April 10 as National Wildlife Week. April 10 is the birthday of the late Jack Miner, a Canadian conservationist known by some as the "father" of North American conservationism. "Wild Goose Jack,” as he was often referred, was one of the first conservationists to determine the migratory paths of North American birds and is credited with helping to save the iconic Canada Goose from the brink of extinction.

While we won’t all save an animal from extinction, we can all have a positive impact on our wildlife and the places they call home when we #DoMoreForWildlife.

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