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  • Setting up a Rain Barrel

    2025-12-05

    A simple and effective way to meet your garden’s watering needs is to install a rain barrel in your yard. You'd be amazed at the amount of free water that falls from the sky and rolls off your roof every year, to save for a…non-rainy day! Here are some tips for installing and using your rain barrel.

  • Twig Tree Decoration

    2025-12-05

    How better to celebrate our beloved trees than to make one as a decoration.

  • Using Groundcover in Your Garden

    2025-12-05

    What exactly is groundcover? And how can you use it to enhance your yard?

  • Watch Out!

    2018-04-12

    How to move a turtle across the road the right way

  • At-Home Projects & Fact Sheets

    2025-12-05

    See what you can do at home for wildlife. 

  • Building a Pond with Wildlife in Mind

    2025-12-05

    13 Dos and Don’ts to Creating a Pond That Animals Will Benefit From

  • DIY Projects and Fact Sheets: Coasts & Oceans

    2025-12-05

    Are you just aching to know how to help make a difference for wildlife? The Canadian Wildlife Federation has lots of easy, fun projects and activities that you can take on to help your wild neighbours have a bright future.

  • DIY Projects and Fact Sheets: Connecting With Nature

    2025-12-05

    Are you just aching to know how to help make a difference for wildlife? The Canadian Wildlife Federation has lots of easy, fun projects and activities that you can take on to help your wild neighbours have a bright future.

  • DIY Projects and Fact Sheets: Education & Leadership

    2025-12-05

    Are you just aching to know how to help make a difference for wildlife? The Canadian Wildlife Federation has lots of easy, fun projects and activities that you can take on to help your wild neighbours have a bright future.

  • DIY Projects and Fact Sheets: Endangered Species & Biodiversity

    2025-12-05

    Are you just aching to know how to help make a difference for wildlife? The Canadian Wildlife Federation has lots of easy, fun projects and activities that you can take on to help your wild neighbours have a bright future.

  • DIY Projects and Fact Sheets: Fields & Forests

    2025-12-05

    Are you just aching to know how to help make a difference for wildlife? The Canadian Wildlife Federation has lots of easy, fun projects and activities that you can take on to help your wild neighbours have a bright future.

  • DIY Projects and Fact Sheets: Lakes & Rivers

    2025-12-05

    Are you just aching to know how to help make a difference for wildlife? The Canadian Wildlife Federation has lots of easy, fun projects and activities that you can take on to help your wild neighbours have a bright future.

  • Friend or Foe? Caterpillars

    2025-12-05

    We tend to give a lot of focus to butterflies and moths once they’ve become these beautiful-winged creatures. But what about when they are caterpillars?

  • Habitat Projects

    2025-12-05

    Habitat Projects

  • How can you nurture the birds in your backyard as the temperature dips?

    2025-12-05

    Make no mistake. Stocking up on birdseed and stocking your feeder on a regular basis is an incredibly helpful way to support the birds in your backyard through the fall and winter. They need nutrients as they molt and migrate. That said, you can also supply other beneficial nutrients by planting fruit producing shrubs that’ll keep your favourite feathered friends satiated. Here are five shrubs you might consider adding to your property!

  • Outside Projects

    2025-12-05

    Experience nature and see wildlife with these fun "how-to" activities.

  • Taking Care of Backyard Birds in Winter

    2025-12-05

    Being cooped up inside isn’t good for the spirit. So, when the weekend rolls around, why not get out there and do some good for the birds in your backyard? You don’t have to be out there for long. Just an hour a week (and maybe even less!) can do a world of wonders. Your feathered friends will thank you!