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A Backyard Habitat Case Study
2025-11-28
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Adopt a Watery Spot
2025-12-05
Ponds, swamps, and streams are all too often used as dumps. Such illegal dumping poses serious hazards to wildlife.
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Alien Alert!
2025-12-05
Alien species are plants or animals that don’t originate from an area where they’re now established. Usually, these uninvited visitors arrive in Canada as a direct or indirect result of human activities.
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Backyard Habitat
2025-11-28
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Banish Unwanted Weeds and Bugs
2025-12-05
Make your backyard habitat a healthier place for wildlife. Use safe alternatives to chemical pesticides.
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Be a Piping Plover Guardian
2025-12-05
In the Atlantic provinces, the Piping Plover Guardian Program relies on about 120 volunteers to patrol 40 nesting beaches during critical breeding periods.
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Boost Backyard Biodiversity
2025-12-05
Nearly everyone admires songbirds, sea turtles, and flying squirrels. But we also need to appreciate the vital roles played by algae, bacteria, fungi, and tiny invertebrates.
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Build a Multi-unit Dwelling for Purple Martins
2025-12-05
Condominium living isn’t for every bird, but purple martins like it just fine. Our largest swallows, these dark purplish-blue winged acrobats will return to the same multi-unit nesting structure year after year.
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Build an Amphibian Pond
2025-12-05
Frogs are often so hard-pressed for water that they choose unsafe places - such as swimming pools - as living quarters.
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Build and Maintain Nesting and Roosting Boxes
2025-12-05
There's a serious shortage of accommodations in the bird world these days. About 24 Canadian bird species nest in natural cavities such as holes in decaying trees and stumps, but it's getting harder for them to find lodgings.
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Build Brush and Rock Piles
2025-12-05
Wildlife will appreciate brush and rock piles - handy hiding places (near a feeder, for example) where small birds and mammals can flee for cover - just about anywhere.