This Month
Helping At-risk Wildlife This August
From turtles to butterflies to bats — here are some ways to help our at-risk wildlife neighbours.
Don’t have a bat box yet? Get started on building your own!
Have you taken the pledge for bats? Learn more.
Join CWF Kaleidoscopes and help migrating Monarchs.
Try to spot at least one Monarch Butterfly this month! Upload your observation to iNaturalist.ca.
Inventory your greenspace – how can it be improved for pollinators like Monarch Butterflies?
Learn about how CWF is helping the Monarch Butterfly.
We’ve rescued hundreds of turtle eggs. Now it’s time to release them someplace safe. Learn more.
Support our work so we can help even more wildlife! Donate now.
Enter the annual Reflections of Nature Photo Contest for a chance to win great prizes!
Know a young nature enthusiast? Tell them about the new Kids Photo Contest!
Enter your photo of wildlife or nature in our monthly “By Popular Vote” photo contest. August’s theme: Nature, Camera, Action!
Need some inspiration? Check out the monthly and annual winners’ gallery.
Share today’s Photo of the Day on your fav social channel.
Raise your voice for our most endangered ecosystem: native grasslands. Take Action.
Get a bracelet when you support our work on at-risk ecosystems like grasslands. Donate now.
Share the plight facing our grasslands with others so they, too, can take action.
Learn more about what remains of this once vast ecosystem.
Kids at home? Try building nature boats.
Get wet with these STEM activities for kids.
Make a splash with these fishy activities.
At the beach? Bring an extra bag and clean up the shoreline.
Have kids that are a bit more introspective? Help them create a nature journal.
How does your garden grow? By collecting native seeds!
Fun with toddlers and nature! We’ve got some ideas.
Cool off at night with some backyard camping!
Know a teacher? Tell them about our tools available for their classrooms.
Check out the Canadian Centre for Nature-based Education to find programs near you.
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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.
