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Bee Courteous, Bee SafeBee Courteous, Bee Safe
You may attract more than butterflies to your garden — other pollinators, such as bees, may also appreciate your efforts.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
