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  • Bee Courteous, Bee Safe

    Bee 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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  • Action and Awareness Projects

    2025-12-05

    Action and Awareness Projects

  • Actions For a Healthy Planet

    2025-12-05

    What's being done? How can you help?

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Arrange for Wildlife

    2025-12-05

    It's important to arrange your plantings so that they provide maximum benefits for wildlife.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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!

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Canada — an Ocean Community

    2025-12-05

    What is a community? It’s a collection of living things, joined by interrelationships and interdependencies.

  • 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.

  • 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.