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Order our resources
Description: Fill in the form to order our free posters and handouts.
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Wild About Whales
Description: There are about 33 whale species which visit Canadian waters, but 17 are more common, either as permanent residents or as regular visitors during the summer. With the help of this poster, you’ll get to know them better! Dive in to discover Canada’s whales!
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Wild About Turtles
Description: Learn more about Canada's turtles and the habitat they call home with this exciting edition to the “Wild About…” poster series.
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Wild About Small Mammals
Description: Learn more about 22 of Canada’s small mammals and the habitat they call home with this exciting edition to the “Wild About…” poster series.
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Wild About Snakes
Description: Before you fear them, take a closer look at Canada’s snakes and learn how these often shy creatures are doing their part to help us out. Check out our entire <em>Wild About…</em> Poster series.
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Wild About Butterflies
Description: Order your Wild About… Butterflies package and discover the beautiful transformation that this species has to offer!
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Wild About Bees
Description: Get to know Canada’s 16 bee families, including the masons, the nomads and the plasterers, and why they have such interesting names. You’ll also discover answers to mysteries like why our bees aren’t as aggressive as more social species like honeybees.
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Wild About Bats
Description: Wild About Bats is a unique gem in the Wild About … poster series. Great illustrations and range maps will acquaint you with Canada’s 19 native bats, where they live and what they eat. Spend some time with nature’s night patrol.
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Wild About Birds
Description: Order your Wild About Birds and Wild About Birds II poster today for more information on each of the species and how to help!
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Printed Materials
Description: Hang a little wilderness on your wall with one of our posters.</p> This content is available to our CWF Supporters and online members. Please sign in to order your free materi
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Support for Environmental Curriculum
Description: • Most Canadian educators agree that it is important for students to learn about environmental topics such as biodiversity loss and climate change. • 47 per cent of educators feel they have the knowledge and skills needed to teach about climate change, but only 23 per cent feel confident teaching about the behaviour changes needed to address the issue. Educators are less prepared to teach about biodiversity loss. • Despite these gaps, over 80 per cent of educators agree that environmental topics such as biodiversity loss and climate change should be integrated throughout K–12 schooling. • With strategic investment in educator training and deeper integration of nature-based education into curriculum, we can close these gaps and empower teachers to drive generational change.
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Service-learning Builds Lifelong Conservation Leaders
Description: Service-learning is more than just providing a service. It is an educational approach that includes hands-on projects, key knowledge and reflection on lifelong skills by: • Connecting youth to nature, conservation and community through structured, hands-on projects that benefit communities • Building agency, skills and lifelong stewardship through experiential learning • Strengthening leadership skills, civic engagement and pathways to green careers
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Equitable Access to Nature-based Learning
Description: Green schoolyards boost child development, achievement and community wellbeing. • Planning often reinforces inequity by funding well-served areas, leaving marginalized communities with less access to green learning spaces. • Data mapping helps target equitable, community-led green investments.
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Thank you!
Description: Fill in the form to order our free posters and handouts.
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How to Participate in the City Nature Challenge
Description: What is the CNC? The City Nature Challenge (CNC) is an annual citizen science event thatgets people outside to enjoy nature in their city as well as create a living record of urbanwildlife. The CNC is a global initiative that encourages friendly competition between cities toget the most observations. From April 29th to May 2nd, 2022 participating cities will asktheir citizens to get outside and take photos of wildlife (this includes both plants andanimals!) in their municipality using the free iNaturalist app or iNaturalist.ca. More than 400cities took part in 2021 from around the world, 25 of which were right here in Canada. Tofind out if your city is participating this year, visit the iNaturalist project page .
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Hinterland Who's Who Fact Sheets
Description: Check out the facts for amphibians and reptiles, birds, fish, mollusks, insects, pollinators and mammals! We’ve even got information specific to species at risk, the boreal forest species, and species affected by climate change! So why not learn a little bit more about these Canadian creatures
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Certify Your Garden Handout
Description: Whether you are limited to a small patio or have hectares of land, CWF would like to acknoledge your efforts in welcoming wildlife to your garden.
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The 2024 Great Canadian Bioblitz Results
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The City Nature Challenge 2024 Results Are In!
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The City Nature Challenge 2023 Results
Description: Between April 28 and May 1, 2023, Canadians recorded observations of wildlife in their cities as part of the global City Nature Challenge. See the results at: iNaturalist.ca/projects
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Spring Plants for Pollinators
Description: 13 early blooming plants
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Native Seed Calculator and Companion Guide
Description: When beginning a pollinator habitat restoration project, selecting a native seed mix appropriate to your project region and site conditions is crucial. But how do you know what species to include, and how much of each species? How can you estimate how much seed you might need and what it might cost? Join Botanist and Restoration Ecologist, Stefan Weber, as he leads us through a new tool—a seed calculator that will assist rights-of-way managers conducting pollinator habitat restoration projects.
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Spring Monarch Mowing Map
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American Eel Infographic
Description: How Industry-led Endangered Species Management is FAILING the American Eel in Ontario
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Six Simple Steps to iNaturalist
Description: Record your wildlife observations and contribute to conservation in Canada
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Adding an observation online
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iNaturalist Guide to Taking Photos
Description: Tips, tricks, and guides to help get your sightings identified
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Identifying observations on the web
Description: Whether you know just one species really well or have an in-depth knowledge of taxonomy, you can help improve theconservation value of iNaturalist observations. It’s most easily done online versus the app.
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Using the iNaturalist app
Description: For smartphones
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How to get started with CWF's Gardening for Wildlife iNaturalist project
Description: Create an iNaturalist.ca account by visiting the website or downloading the free app(available on iOS and Android ). Click sign up and create your profile, including a publicusername and short bio. This information can be changed at any time.
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About iNaturalist.ca
Description: Turn your next outing into a journey of scientific discovery. Download your free iNaturalist app at iNaturalist.ca and join a network of hundreds of thousands of people observing wildlife around the globe. Using a smartphone or digital camera, anyone can share sightings of flora and fauna and contribute to a growing record of biodiversity. It’s “citizen science” that’s fun, educational and impactful.
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What to do if You Hook a Turtle in B.C.
Description: British Columbia’s turtles are in decline and need all the help they can get!
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BEST PRACTICES TO HELP CONSERVE THE AMERICAN EEL
Description: You’ve Got an Eel on Your Reel – NOW WHAT?!
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What to do if you hook a turtle
Description: Ontario’s turtles are in decline and need all the help they can get!
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Bat House Installation Guide
Description: Eight easy steps to installing your bat house
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Restoring habitat for Monarch in eastern Ontario
Description: Increasingly, private landowners are interested in restoring areas of their property to provide improved habitat for Monarch and other pollinators. While there is abundant information on small-scale gardening with native plants, there is far less information available for restoration plantings at a larger scale. Here is a brief introduction for landowners in eastern Ontario interested in restoring an area of an acre or in a cost-effective way. More detailed information is in progress, so keep in touch for updates. Another great resource from the Xerces Society is Establishing Pollinator Meadows from Seed.
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Helping Monarchs and Pollinators: Rethinking Mowing
Description: Pollinators are a priority resource concern for many conservationists and farmers. The Xerces Society conducted field trials throughout the Easter, Midwestern and Western United States to inform best practices.
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Organic Site Preparation for Wildflower Establishment
Description: Pollinators are a priority resource concern for many conservationists and farmers. The Xerces Society conducted field trials throughout the Easter, Midwestern and Western United States to inform best practices.
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Bat House Checklist
Description: A few tips to make your bat house more attractive to bats!
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Bat Exclusion Calendar
Description: If you must exclude bats from your property, take a look at this calendar which outlines the most and least desirable times to do so.
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WILD About Pollinators
Description: This illustration shows native pollinators from all over Canada interacting with their environment and foraging among cultivated and native plants at various times of the year.
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Planting the Seed: A Guide to Establishing Prairie and Meadow Communities in Southern Ontario
Description: Prairie and meadow are complex communities and even the best attempts to recreate them will be simplified versions that do not fully replace the ones that have been lost. For this reason, protecting existing natural habitat should always be a top priority. If habitatcreation projects are well executed, however, they can provide a significant contribution to the conservation of wildlife...
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Pollinators
Description: Pollination is one of the most important ecological processes on the planet. But our pollinators are in trouble due to a loss of habitat, toxic chemicals, parasites, diseases and climate change. Learn more about these remarkable animals and how you can help.
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Explore our pollinators
Description: Using the Wild About Pollinators poster, explore the pollinators and some plant species found in Canada.
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Powerful Pollinators Webinar
Description: CWF WILD Webinars: Powerful Pollinators
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Pollinator Quiz
Description: Answer these five pollinator questions using the Wild About Pollinators Poster
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Pollinator Quiz
Description: Answer these five pollinator questions using the Wild About Pollinators Poster
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Pollinator Quiz
Description: Answer these five pollinator questions using the Wild About Pollinators Poster
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Pollinator Quiz
Description: Answer these five pollinator questions using the Wild About Pollinators Poster
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Pollinator Quiz
Description: Answer these five pollinator questions using the Wild About Pollinators Poster
