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2025-11-21
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2025-12-08
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Enough is Enough
2025-12-08
Across Canada’s land, waters, and skies – wildlife face threats they can’t overcome alone. Whales are entangled. Pronghorn struggle to migrate. Salmon are dwindling. Turtles are being crushed on our roads. Even our smallest allies, bees are vanishing. The undeniable truth is that we’re all connected, and when one species suffers, we all do. This is our moment to do more. For them, for us, for our future. Enough is Enough
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About Us
2025-12-02
The Canadian Wildlife Federation is a charitable organization that works with Canadians to make a difference to the kind of legacy we leave behind … not just for wildlife, but also for our children.
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What We Do
2025-12-05
The Canadian Wildlife Federation is a charitable organization that works with Canadians to make a difference to the kind of legacy we leave behind … not just for wildlife, but also for our children. See how our work helps us toward this goal.
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News & Media
2025-12-05
Find news releases, media kits, videos, webisodes, podcasts, public service announcements, RSS News Feeds, lists of contacts and more.
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Foundation
2025-12-05
The Canadian Wildlife Foundation is a charitable organization dedicated to the belief that the renewable natural resources of Canada are economic, social, recreational and aesthetic assets that must be restored, used wisely and perpetuated for posterity.
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2025-10-28
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Canadian Wildlife Federation
2025-12-05
The Canadian Wildlife Federation is a charitable organization that works with Canadians to make a difference to the kind of legacy we leave behind … not just for wildlife, but also for our children.
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Credit Card Verification Code
2025-12-05
The verification code is imprinted on credit cards to help merchants verify transactions when the actual card is not present, such as Internet purchases or donations. The merchant uses this number as part of the authorization process with the card issuer.
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Copy of Your Connection with Wildlife
2025-12-05
Our mission is to conserve and inspire the conservation of Canada’s wildlife and habitats for the use and enjoyment of all. We believe this is important to you too.
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Sign up to the CWF Online Community
2025-12-05
Join the Canadian Wildlife Federation's online community and get exclusive access to news features, email updates, conservation issues and special offers.
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Sign up to the CWF Online Community
2025-12-05
Join the Canadian Wildlife Federation's online community and get exclusive access to news features, email updates, conservation issues and special offers.
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Sign up to the CWF Online Community
2025-12-05
Join the Canadian Wildlife Federation's online community and get exclusive access to news features, email updates, conservation issues and special offers.
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Sign up to the CWF Online Community
2025-12-05
Join the Canadian Wildlife Federation's online community and get exclusive access to news features, email updates, conservation issues and special offers.
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Copy of Your Connection with Wildlife
2025-12-05
Our mission is to conserve and inspire the conservation of Canada’s wildlife and habitats for the use and enjoyment of all. We believe this is important to you too.
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Copy of Sign up to CWF Online
2025-12-05
CWF urges Canadians to make a connection with wildlife in their everyday lives.
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Sign up to CWF Online
2025-12-05
CWF urges Canadians to make a connection with wildlife in their everyday lives.
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2025-11-12
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2025-11-12
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2025-11-12
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2025-11-20
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Barn Owl
2025-12-03
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Fauna
2025-12-03
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Urban Wildlife
2025-12-03
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Flora
2025-12-03
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Warblers
2025-12-03
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Landscape
2025-12-03
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Great Blue Herons
2025-12-03
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CWF Gardens Slideshow
2025-12-05
Take a tour of our gardens, which feature native plants found across Canada.
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Biodiversity Field Study
2025-12-05
One way to conserve our aquatic treasures is to participate in a biodiversity field study along a migratory route.
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An Ecosystem Approach
2025-12-05
Your ecosystem includes the land, air, water, sunshine, food, home, schoolmates, friends, and family you need to grow up healthy and happy.
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Adopt an Ecosystem
2025-12-05
In any area — a pond, meadow, or your backyard — water, soil, air and living things form an ecosystem. Your ecosystem includes the sunshine, air, water, land, food, house and friends you depend on to keep you healthy and happy.
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Boost Ocean Biodiversity
2025-12-05
We've scarcely begun to understand the diversity hidden in the ocean and the interrelationships among its innumerable parts.
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A Treasure Hunt on the Watery Web
2025-12-05
Try this virtual scavenger hunt. Answer all the questions by searching the Oceans Day partners' Web sites listed in parentheses after each question.
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Aliens Among Us
2025-12-05
Assign this resource sheet to students as homework or as a classroom reading activity. This backgrounder outlines key terms and concepts that are fleshed out later on.
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Benefits and Values, Threats and Consequences
2025-12-05
It is easy to overlook the services provided by pollinators, living and non-living. Yet, without pollination, many plants could not reproduce.
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Aquatic Habitat Projects
2025-12-05
Creating a mini-wetland in your schoolyard is surprisingly simple. It may be your key to attracting a host of wet and wild creatures.
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A Student Leadership Approach to Festival Organization
2025-12-05
A festival or celebration is simply a collection of activities, displays, and presentations with a common theme.
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Arrange for Wildlife
2025-12-05
It's important to arrange your plantings so that they provide maximum benefits for wildlife.
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Bio what?
2025-12-05
Biodiversity is a simple way of saying biological diversity — but don't worry, we can make it even easier than that!
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Build Life-Support Systems
2025-12-05
Every time you improve habitat, you are helping to build critical life-support systems for a host of wild creatures.
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Bee Courteous, Bee Safe
2025-12-05
You may attract more than butterflies to your garden — other pollinators, such as bees, may also appreciate your efforts.
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Treatment Plant
2025-11-28
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Let's Clean up our Act
2025-11-28
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Wetlands are Wonderful
2025-11-28
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Where Does Water Go?
2025-11-28
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A Watery Wonderland
2025-11-28
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What are Wetlands Worth?
2025-11-28
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Think Like an Astronaut
2025-11-28
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A Watery Merry-Go-Round
2025-11-28
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Don't Dump on Wildlife
2025-11-28
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Attack Water Pollution
2025-12-04
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Test for Water Quality
2025-11-28
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Be Cool... Stay Cool
2025-12-05
A role-playing activity about the effect of the changing environment on people and wildlife in Canada's North.
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Climate Connections
2025-12-05
Using picture cards, students play a variety of non-competitive games that explore the connections between human actions, climate change, and positive and negative impacts on wildlife habitat.
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Lethal Legacy
2025-12-05
Students will role play lake trout and alewife in a simulation of a simple Great Lakes food web to illustrate the bio-accumulation of toxins.
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Home is Where...There's Habitat
2025-12-05
Through hands-on activities, kids will learn the importance of wildlife to themselves, their communities, provinces or territories, country and planet. They will become aware of areas near and far that have been disrupted without a thought for the creatures that live in them. Through both large- and small-scale projects, students can offer wildlife and habitat a huge helping hand
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An Unnatural History
2025-12-05
Students investigate historical relationships between Aboriginal peoples and native wildlife, as well as intentional introductions of exotic animals and plants to North America by explorers and settlers. Students also trace the historical and geographical origins of alien species found in their own part of Canada and then share their findings in an oral presentation.
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Cool Wildlife Interviews
2025-12-05
Students conduct imaginary interviews with northern wildlife species, researching and presenting answers to a set of questions in an interview format.
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Alien X-Files or Accidental Tourists
2025-12-05
Students do a card-matching activity to learn how human activities accidentally transport invasive species into ecosystems. Pairs or groups explore in greater depth the introduction and spread of an individual animal or plant.
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Create a Wild Adventure
2025-12-05
This activity leads students to research a trip to one of Canada’s protected areas.
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Fish Stories
2025-12-05
A1: Students will listen to and share stories about fishes, and process the results through discussion, reading, personal writing, build models or illustrations in this introductory activity.
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Going, Going...Gone!
2025-12-05
Students will be presented with profiles of selected fish species from one of the six categories that the Committee On the Status of Endangered Wildlife In Canada (COSEWIC) uses to indicate the relative degree of threat of extinction. Students will analyze the data using several criteria and determine possible management strategies. Where strategies have already been implemented, students can make comparisons.
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How Does Your Fish Measure Up?
2025-12-05
Students will "recreate" some of Canada's record fish using "found materials" or common classroom objects.
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Regional Inquirer
2025-12-05
Students investigate interrelationships among plants and animals in an aquatic ecosystem and explore how climate change might affect those interrelationships and the natural community as a whole.
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Migrators
2025-12-05
Students discuss various ways in which birds have adapted to winter, with emphasis on migration. Students will choose several migrators common to their area, then draw maps or murals tracing the migration routes.
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Mighty Migrators
2025-12-05
Students draw murals showing caribou migration routes and the possible consequences of a pipeline being laid across the route.
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Say it with a Song
2025-12-05
Students will become familiar with some common birdsongs and their meanings.
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Natural Inquirer
2025-12-05
Students use interview techniques to research and write about an animal or plant affected by climate change.
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Map that Habitat
2025-12-05
Students select an area to map with birds in mind. They will map bird-friendly physical features, such as cavity nesting trees, food sources, sheltering trees, and water, as well as threats such as cats, pesticide-treated grass, and polluted water.
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Clean Getaway
2025-12-05
This is an active simulation game, best done outdoors. Students work in teams to deliver a container of clean water from an inland community, down a river, to an ocean creature.
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Discover Local Ocean Threats
2025-12-05
In this mapping activity, students research and visit local waterways.
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Alien Impacts - Assess the Mess
2025-12-05
Students research the presence of native and non-native species in their area, the effects of exotics on local wildlife and habitat, interrelationships among plants and animals, and other observations relating to alien species. Students share their findings with the rest of the class and participate in a discussion.
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Plant a Butterfly Garden
2025-12-05
Students plant a school garden to provide habitat for butterflies and other pollinators.
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Roaming Biomes
2025-12-05
Students conduct research on the environment-monitoring capabilities of earth-observation satellites and write a report or give an oral presentation on the use of remote-sensing technology to measure the impacts of climate change on an ecological area.
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Discover Your Path to the Ocean
2025-12-05
In this three-part activity, students use various resources to trace the surface waters that connect their community to the ocean, to other communities along their watershed, and to ocean wildlife.
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Are We Disturbing Birds?
2025-12-05
Students will identify changes that have taken place in their community in the recent past. Based on their findings, they will suggest how the changes may have affected local birds and how to improve conditions for them through specific habitat projects or changes in land use policies. Older students could develop a map-based plan of recommended action.
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Net Gain, Net Effect
2025-12-05
To describe the evolution of fishing and interpret the possible effects of changes in technology on fish populations.
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Create a Map for Birds
2025-12-05
Students will complete a creative master map (example) that is a mural, map, exhibit, and display all rolled into one! The master map will integrate what students learn about birds from activities in this kit
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Place that Space!
2025-12-05
Students do Web-based research to complete a quiz by matching the descriptions of 13 Canadian protected areas to the province or territory where they are found.
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Celebrate With an Oceans Festival
2025-12-05
Students of all ages prepare a celebration of Oceans Day, June 8.
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Buddy Up to Birds
2025-12-05
Students will research different areas of Canada and become familiar with some species of birds that these areas support.
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Create a Hands-on or Electronic Watershed Display
2025-12-05
Students plan, prepare and present a hands-on or an electronic display on a theme related to watersheds. They may also bring the display and its messages to the attention of other schools through the CWF website and other media.
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Connecting Special Places
2025-12-05
This is a physically challenging team game in which students role-play a wild animal and work to connect four wild spaces that represent the animal's key habitat needs.
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The Great Round-Table Debate
2025-12-05
Students role-play a round-table discussion about human use of a local watershed.
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Survey for Birds
2025-12-05
Students will conduct a survey to determine what habitat elements for birds are available or missing in their community. Results will be distributed to survey participants to help spread awareness about habitat conditions for local birds.
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Journey North by River Inc
2025-12-05
Students play the role of tour guides who recruit others for a canoe trip down one of the Canadian Heritage Rivers located in Canada's North. The recruitment effort involves preparing a poster, a speech or a brochure.
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Winter Survival
2025-12-05
Students play the part of animals and winter "threats" in an exciting game of tag.
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Lesson Planning Guide
2025-11-28
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Guide to Feeding Wildlife
2025-12-05
Students will discover the possible negative effects of feeding wildlife in winter.
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Snow Tours
2025-12-05
Students will be able to observe, record, and describe signs of nature in winter.
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Design a Shelter
2025-12-05
Groups of students design a shelter for an imaginary animal and then present their designs to the class.
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An Ice Place to Be!
2025-12-05
Students create illustrations and make a presentation of the key survival strategies of fresh water fish in various winter conditions.
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Dinner Time
2025-12-05
In this card game, students take turns selecting cards from a centre pile until they have a complete set of winter “needs” for their species.
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Strangers in a Strange Land
2025-12-05
Students use interview techniques to explore the traditional wisdom of fishers, farmers, First Nations, and other peoples whose close relationship with nature gives them a deeper understanding of, and sensitivity toward, climatic cycles and events.
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Bird Banquets
2025-12-05
Students erect a platform birdfeeder and observe which foods are preferred by which birds.
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Climate Change Challenge
2025-12-05
Students role-play caribou and habitat components to demonstrate the impacts of climate change on the Arctic tundra.
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Create Hands-on or Electronic Northern Waters Presentations
2025-12-05
Students plan, prepare and present a hands-on or an electronic display on a northern ocean and rivers theme. They may also share their displays with other schools through this website and other media.
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A Special Wild Places Festival
2025-12-05
This student-led activity brings together any of the projects completed in this unit for a culminating event to celebrate the theme of National Wildlife Week.
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Weighing the Evidence
2025-12-05
Students undertake research to gain a basic knowledge of climate change and to understand why there is debate about its validity, causes, and impacts on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.
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Climate Change and Your Ecological Area
2025-12-05
Students investigate interrelationships among plants and animals in an ecosystem and explore how climate change might affect those interrelationships and the natural community as a whole.
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From Me to the Sea
2025-12-05
Students use a simple checklist to assess the ocean creatures they affect through their everyday actions.
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Set the Restoration Cycle in Motion
2025-12-05
Students develop and take steps to implement a strategic plan to prevent the introduction and spread of alien species, control their populations, monitor their presence, and restore native wildlife and habitat.
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Protecting Our Special Spaces
2025-12-05
Students are presented with two conflicting perspectives on how to treat a special wild space. They propose and discuss possible resolutions to the dilemma and create an ending for the story.
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Pollination By-Products
2025-12-05
Students identify the plant origin for a number of common foods and find out which pollinating agent makes it possible. Older students also identify some of the threats to the processes of pollination.
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Left at Sea
2025-12-05
Students use interview techniques to explore the traditional wisdom of fishers, mariners, First Nations, and other peoples whose historical connection to, and reliance on, the ocean gives them a deeper understanding of climatic cycles and events.
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Home on the Range
2025-12-05
Students do research, role-playing, and interviewing to learn why birds live or range where they do.
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Seafaring Friend Theme Map
2025-12-05
In this activity, students discover local links to the ocean and sketch them in a map.
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Wingy About Birds
2025-12-05
Students practise observational skills by looking for basic features of bird species.
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Pollination Puzzles
2025-12-05
Many seed-producing plants have adapted to attract or, at least, favour certain pollinating agents. Students decipher clues to match "flower" cards with pollinator agents.
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Native Friends, Invasive Foes
2025-12-05
Students compare and classify native and alien species, then research and hold a classroom debate about the differences between indigenous and exotic species, their positive and negative effects, and whether their populations should be conserved or controlled.
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Facts and Falsehoods
2025-12-05
Students develop criteria for evaluating the quality, balance, and fairness of informational items representing views about climate change. They then review materials on the basis of their criteria, develop informational presentations, and report back to the class.
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Use Water Webisodes as Learning Tools
2025-12-05
By viewing short online webisodes about water and the wildlife that live in aquatic ecosystems, students will become more aware of important water issues and how they can take action to improve the health of Canada’s water bodies, including oceans.
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Discover and Explore a Special Space
2025-12-05
Students take a field trip into the schoolyard or a local park to find their special wild space and begin to get to know it. Students use observation and structured activities to develop a relationship with the space and record their observations, thoughts, and feelings.
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Climate Watch
2025-12-05
Students participate in a national survey of bioindicators of climate change by gathering data on local plants and animals.
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Create an "Underwater" Display
2025-12-05
Students plan, prepare and present a hands-on or an electronic display on an ocean and watershed theme. They may also share their displays with other schools through CWF Education and other media.
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Riparian Repairs
2025-12-05
Students assess a riparian (shoreline) area and plant trees and shrubs to enhance water quality and habitat.
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Boost the Boreal Forest
2025-12-05
Students investigate the importance of the Boreal forest region to wildlife, and birds in particular, and organize a display to make others aware of their findings.
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Discover Your Ocean Connections
2025-12-05
Students create a personal mind map of their connections to the ocean, based on a resource sheet and class discussion.
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In the Littoral Zone
2025-12-05
The shoreline web of life and water quality have suffered. But we can repair this damage.
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Heed Wildlife Warnings
2025-12-05
All sorts of wildlife, from bugs to bears, are killed while crossing roads. Sometimes we can help these animals dodge traffic by building special routes for them.
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Protecting Northern Waters
2025-12-05
Northern waters are a valuable part of Canada’s natural and cultural heritage.
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Give Biodiversity a Boost
2025-12-05
The health of wild creatures and humans depends on the diversity of these tiny invertebrates, plants, and micro-organisms.
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Plant a Million Trees
2025-12-05
One small but important thing everyone can do for wildlife is plant a tree.
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Great Blue Hope
2025-12-05
Make a nesting structure that will accommodate not only great blue herons but also black-crowned night-herons and double-crested cormorants.
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Facilitating Personal Experiences in the Outdoors
2025-12-05
Here are some basic guidelines for taking students on a local field trip where they can develop this important personal connection to nature.
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Canada — an Ocean Community
2025-12-05
What is a community? It’s a collection of living things, joined by interrelationships and interdependencies.
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In the City
2025-12-05
Here are some suggestions on how to reclaim an urban waterfront for wildlife.
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Educate Your Community
2025-12-05
So you've decided to create an ecology study centre in your schoolyard. You can use this chance to do some teaching yourselves! Let the community know what you're up to and how important it is that we all practise sustainable development.
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How You Can Make a Difference
2025-12-05
Educating yourself is an excellent first step. Your enthusiasm will encourage others to get involved.
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Monitor Marine Migrants
2025-12-05
Students can leam a lot about marine migrants — and how they depend on healthy habitats to survive — by monitoring them both in real space and in cyberspace.
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Canadian Action Makes Waves for Oceans
2025-12-05
Environmental problems not only cross national boundaries, but also the boundaries between federal and provincial jurisdictions.
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Implement Your Plan
2025-12-05
You can accomplish an amazing range of projects with a little community teamwork! Here are some more ideas to help you get started.
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Conserve a Flyway
2025-12-05
Countless thousands of winged wanderers need places to rest and refuel as they commute between Canadian breeding grounds and wintering habitats in the United States and Central and South America.
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Preserve Our Aquatic Heritage
2025-12-05
The following activities and projects will enable you to start taking decisive action, such as promoting the establishment of marine conservation areas.
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Link Up With Other Communities
2025-12-05
Now you have a good idea of what you can do to improve wildlife habitat in your immediate area. Wouldn't it be great if neighbouring communities followed your lead?
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Help Habitat Hot Spots
2025-12-05
Help avoid a habitat disaster by getting key lawmakers to take your concerns seriously. But first, do your homework.
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Community Action Makes a World of Difference for Wildlife
2025-12-05
You can think of a natural community as all the plants and animals in a particular habitat that are bound together by food-chains and other interactions.
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Lend Wings to Migratory Birds
2025-12-05
We may have solved the mystery of the vanishing songbirds. But as far as their habitats are concerned, we've barely begun to put the pieces back together.
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Overfishing, Damage to Coasts, and Ocean Health Indicators
2025-12-05
Our oceans give us 90 million tonnes of fish each year! Unfortunately, we have often not fished carefully to conserve enough fish for the future.
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Conserve the Arctic Marine Ecosystem
2025-12-05
You can help prevent or slow the pace of such long-range impacts by doing the classroom activities and ocean action projects in this section.
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Canada's Changing North
2025-12-05
Canada's northern environment, wildlife and people are facing major changes. Global climate change, caused mainly by our urbanized activities in the south, is predicted to have its greatest impact in this region.
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In the Buffer Zone
2025-12-05
The strip of moisture-loving trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants along the edge of a lake, river, wetland, or other watery habitat is called the buffer zone.
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Celebrate Canada's North
2025-12-05
Perhaps you regard the North as a cold, harsh environment. Or maybe you already know that it is a fascinating world, inhabited by spectacularly resilient plants and animals adapted to some of the most extreme conditions on the planet.
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Keep Canada Ever Green for Wildlife
2025-12-05
Only about one percent of the sun's energy that falls on a plant is converted into plant matter. But amazingly, the entire animal kingdom — including the human race — depends on that one percent.
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Conserve Corridors
2025-12-05
As human developments continue to dice, mince, and pulverize natural areas, the need for connectivity between fragmented habitats becomes more vital.
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Get Out in the Field
2025-12-05
The best way to learn about shorelines — and to understand why we need to conserve them — is to visit one, whether it’s a riverbank, lakeside, sea coast, or another place where land meets water.
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Help Reduce Pollution
2025-12-05
Pollution is everywhere. Some forms occur naturally, such as acid rain falling when volcanoes erupt. That's called ecological pollution, and we really can't do anything about it. However, most pollution that harms people and wildlife is caused by humans!
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National Parks and Wilderness Reserves
2025-12-05
Climate is Changing... Help Wildlife Weather the Storm
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Make Way for Wild Migrants
2025-12-05
Sometimes called the lifeblood of the Earth, migration is like a vast circulation system that pumps blood toward the Earth's poles in spring and back toward the equator in fall.
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Freshwater – Our Living Link with the Ocean
2025-12-05
Your community is one of thousands sprinkled across a huge mass of mountains, hilltops, flat lands, and wetlands.
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Mind a Micro-Migration
2025-12-05
You too can give safe passage to rambling reptiles and ambulatory amphibians.
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Help Habitats Recover
2025-12-05
The South Okanagan and Lower Similkameen area is out of this world!
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From Me to the Sea Checklist
2025-12-05
Indicate how true the following statements are for you by circling the response that best describes your behaviour.
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Oceans… Closer than you think
2025-12-05
You may live thousands of kilometres from the nearest coast, but the health of our oceans matters to all of us. And what each of us does affects their health.
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Homage to the Ocean
2025-12-05
A whole sea of opportunities to organize ocean-related events awaits you.
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Climate Change, Sea Change
2025-12-05
Today, the world is heating up faster than at any other time in 10,000 years. Global temperatures have risen significantly since the start of the Industrial Revolution in the early 1700s.
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Making Maps for Birds
2025-12-05
There are endless ways to make maps that will help our feathered friends as well as help students learn about them.
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Canada is an Ocean Community
2025-12-05
Every single community in Canada is linked to the sea through the never-ending flow of water in streams, rivers, wetlands, ponds, and lakes.
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My Grampa’s Tall Tales
2025-11-28
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Healthy Habitat, Healthy World
2025-12-05
If a species is thriving, its habitat is probably healthy too. When a creature or plant starts to disappear, something must be wrong with its habitat.
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Oceans are Indispensable
2025-12-05
The Earth needs oceans because all the elements on the planet are carefully balanced, including water, air, soil, and living things.
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Microhabitat Projects
2025-12-05
With a little planning, physically and mentally challenged students can help bring habitat back to health.
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Make a Green Plan for Wildlife
2025-12-05
From caribou to robins to butterflies, a host of creatures will respond to your planting plan if it includes the habitat components they need for survival.
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International Action Can Make Waves for Oceans
2025-12-05
Ocean pollution, overfishing, habitat destruction, and loss of biodiversity are problems too serious and complicated for any country to tackle on its own.
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Migratory Species Need Migratory Spaces
2025-12-05
Everywhere, from the Arctic to Antarctica, finned, furred, fanged, and feathered travellers are on the go.
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Maintain a Wildlife Haven
2025-12-05
A little maintenance goes a long way. Just by cleaning up an area, removing competing vegetation, and adding water, you're contributing to the greening of Canada — and you're helping wildlife!
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Plant Native Species
2025-12-05
Plants that occur naturally in an area are called native or indigenous species. It's best to plant native species, because they are used to local soil and weather conditions.
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Examine Your Ecozone
2025-12-05
This activity will help you assess your ecozone’s general vitality and then prescribe "treatments" to cure ill health.
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Nurture Wildlife Habitat
2025-12-05
It's time we stopped treating our soil like dirt. This living resource may seem like pretty passive stuff, but there's a lot more to it than meets the eye.
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Give Backyard Birds Something to Sing About
2025-12-05
We may take our birds for granted, yet they have a lot to teach us. They are often our first introduction to the ways of the wild.
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Improve Connections in Your Schoolyard Ecosystem
2025-12-05
Canada is a huge country — much too big to be considered one ecosystem.
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Make Your Project Happen
2025-12-05
Creating habitat for migrants is simple if you develop your project in stages and if it is driven by student initiative.
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Discover the Ocean
2025-12-05
Healthy oceans offer us a treasure trove of biodiversity that we tend to take for granted.
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Create Edge Habitat
2025-12-05
Edges are wonderful examples of biodiversity in action. They are areas where one type of habitat meets and blends with another.
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Build Your Team
2025-12-05
Team building is important. More can be accomplished by a group than by individuals, and members feel that they are making a real contribution. Working with a small team, or even with just a buddy, will instill a sense of pride in your project and, even more importantly, in your community.
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Make a World of Difference
2025-12-05
In many parts of the world, we’re using resources faster than they can be replenished. To stop this, we must start now to manage the planet’s resources so that they can continue to keep us and future generations alive. But how do we do this?
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In the Country
2025-12-05
The following projects will help you protect wetlands and streams on prairies and in other rural areas.
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Ocean Life on the Move
2025-12-05
Life is a highway for billions of creatures that live, breed, eat, and play in the ocean.
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Encourage Community Action
2025-12-05
Here are some ideas on how to encourage the participation of people from outside your classroom.
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On the Seashore
2025-12-05
Combining land and sea, fresh and salt water, these transitional environments are in a constant state of change.
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Create Wildlife Habitat
2025-12-05
Trees provide a remarkable selection of food and shelter for countless wildlife species; enhance and beautify the landscape; cut down pollution by absorbing carbon dioxide and releasing clean air and water; prevent soil erosion caused by wind and water; buffer noise by absorbing and deflecting sound; and save energy spent on heating and air-conditioning by blocking winter winds and providing summer shade.
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Prevent Marine Pollution
2025-12-05
Pollution kills countless ocean creatures, impacting hardest on coastal waters, the areas richest in biodiversity and the marine resources we depend on most.
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The Global Aquatic Ecosystem
2025-12-05
All land is divided into watersheds — that is, areas of land that drain into particular bodies of water.
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Put Biodiversity into Action
2025-12-05
Take a stroll around your schoolyard or the area you want to improve for wildlife.
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Shoreline Habitat Report Card
2025-12-05
Use this report card to keep track of signs of good or ill health along a shoreline.
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Troubled Water, Troubled Times
2025-12-05
Climate change resulting from human activities could be the greatest environmental threat facing life on this planet.
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With Your Community
2025-12-05
The projects in this section require technical know-how and/or entry into water.
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The Heat is On
2025-12-05
When we chop down forests, pave over wetlands, and pollute our lakes and seas, we deprive terrestrial and aquatic plants of their power to absorb greenhouse gases and keep the planet's climatic system in balance.
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Sustainability Means Survival
2025-12-05
Sustainability means our ability to survive — to continue living on the Earth — and it depends on our wise use of natural resources.
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Take Action for Oceans
2025-12-05
It's good to teach our children to act on their beliefs. When they understand the importance of oceans and how human activities threaten them, they can respond by taking part in a variety of ocean-supporting actions.
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The Northern Community
2025-12-05
The projects in this section are designed especially — but not exclusively — for residents of northern communities.
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The Ocean Threats Scavenger Hunt
2025-12-05
How many of these ocean threats can you find in your community?
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Sea Duck, Tree Duck
2025-12-05
Plunging populations in 10 of our 15 sea duck species have raised an alarm among waterfowl biologists.
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Seas of Change
2025-12-05
You must have noticed the signs. Longer, hotter summers. Shorter, milder winters. Birds arriving on their breeding grounds weeks before they once did. So, why not just enjoy the weather? Because what seems like a change for the better is really a cause for grave concern.
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Support the World-Wide Web of Life in Your Schoolyard
2025-12-05
Your life is inseparable from the ecosystem you live in. Every species interacts with the air, water, sun, soil, and living things that sustain it in a huge web of interdependency.
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Turn Grey Zones into Green Zones
2025-12-05
More than likely, there’s a monoculture near you — even in your schoolyard or a nearby park. Think of ways to boost biodiversity there.
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The Science of Pollination Primer
2025-12-05
Not all plants are seed-producing plants (known as spermatophytes) but most fall into two major groups: the flowering plants and the conifers. Of the more than 230,000 known species of plants worldwide, about 200,000 are flowering plants; another 500 are conifers while others include such plants as ferns and mosses. Most seed-producers owe their great success, in part, to pollination.
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Save Fragile Habitats
2025-12-05
The Prairie Grasslands Region is one of the most endangered habitats in Canada. But grasslands aren't found only in the Prairie provinces; there are also patches of them in Ontario.
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What Governments Do
2025-12-05
There are a number of ways that governments protect areas in Canada's North.
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Stand on Guard for Aquatic Habitats
2025-12-05
We have only just started to give the marine heritage under our care the attention and protection it deserves.
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Sea Ducks on the Move
2025-12-05
These feisty waterfowl migrate in spring and fall between inland breeding areas and wintering habitats along our coasts.
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Work for Wet Places
2025-12-05
Wetlands are amazing places. They are some of the most productive areas for wildlife in the world.
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Ribbons of Life
2025-12-05
The edges of our lakes, streams, rivers, and wetlands — known as riparian zones — as well as ocean coasts, are essential to living things.
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Stand on Guard for Northern Wildlife
2025-12-05
If you live in the North, you can "stand on guard" for wildlife.
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Where Do You Fit In?
2025-12-05
You have a lot in common with beetles, bears, and brambles. All living things need healthy habitat to survive.
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Sustain Wildlife Habitat
2025-12-05
The key to creating, nurturing, and sustaining wildlife habitat is to make the most of the people and resources in your entire school and community.
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What Harms Ocean Life?
2025-12-05
Oceans seem too huge to harm, don't they? But we humans are actually making our oceans sick.
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Support Soggy Spaces
2025-12-05
Help make way for migrants that rely on watery spots by tackling any of the following habitat projects.
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Sustainable Development: The Challenge of the Century
2025-12-05
Sustainable development is a blend of two ideas: development and sustainability. Through development, we attempt to satisfy people's needs. These include such basics as food, water, clothing, jobs, health care and so on. Development also goes beyond the basics to provide a good quality of life.
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Save Species and Spaces in Crisis
2025-12-05
There are more kinds of ecosystems in Canada than you can imagine, from tall-grass prairies and estuaries to Carolinian forests and alpine meadows.
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Set an Example
2025-12-05
Guess what? Your schoolyard is an ecosystem, too. It's a great place for play at recess, but it can be much more than that. It's a perfect spot to practise sustainable development. Why not use it to create an ecology study centre for wildlife?
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Protecting Special Wild Places in Canada
2025-12-05
Wild areas are essential for maintaining biodiversity at all levels (genetic, species, and ecosystem).
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Save the Gene Pool
2025-12-05
There are many reasons why we need to conserve the genetic diversity on our planet. Every species has a role in nature, even if we don't know what it is right now.
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Watery Worlds
2025-12-05
Each part of a wetland ecosystem is needed for the whole system, or organism, to work.
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Put Down Roots
2025-12-05
To help wildlife, we must look after Canada's biodiversity, and one great way of doing that is to protect plants.
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Your Special Wild Place – Love it or Lose it
2025-12-05
Here are some of the things that can happen to special wild places in our own neighbourhoods.
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You Live in a Watershed. Get to Know it!
2025-12-05
No matter where you live, work or play, you live in a watershed.
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What is Climate Change?
2025-12-05
Have you noticed that the summers are getting longer and hotter, the winters shorter and milder? Maybe you think that's a change for the better. Think again.
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Turn the Tide on Pollution
2025-12-05
For many marine migrants, the deep blue sea is becoming a deadly obstacle course, as solid waste and land-based pollution become unwelcome travelling companions.
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Recycle Resources
2025-12-05
The next time you're about to drop a sheet of paper or a tin can into the wastepaper basket, for example, why not think about dropping it in a recycling bin instead? Recycling things like paper, glass and tin makes an amazing difference for wildlife.
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Threats to the Ocean from Your Backyard
2025-12-05
Human activities are threatening the world's oceans.
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Why Should You Make Waves for Oceans
2025-12-05
A whopping 80 per cent of ocean pollution comes from human activities on land and poses risks to human health and the environment.