October Lecture: A New Home for Nature Along Toronto’s Waterfront

Date: Oct 06, 2026 at 19:00
Meeting Location: Zoom Meeting

Join us on Tuesday, October 6, 2026 at 7:00 pm for our October lecture.

This talk will showcase native plants and animals now flourishing in Ookwemin Minising, the redeveloped Portlands and Don Mouth. Surveys by TRCA reveal the remarkable biodiversity being rapidly established in this new part of our city. Thanks to detailed design and planting plans, forest, marsh, and aquatic species are finding suitable habitats. The new territory is also being accepted by breeding birds, including ground nesting birds, as well as by non-avian fauna.

Dell Tune is Biologist, Watershed Planning and Ecosystem Science, Development and Engineering Services, with the Toronto Region Conservation Authority. After working as a volunteer at Tommy Thompson Bird Research Station, Dell joined the TRCA, initially as a field assistant. He has been conducting bat, frog and bird surveys since that time.

Brian Ford is Biologist, Terrestrial Inventories and Monitoring, with the Toronto Region Conservation Authority. Brian monitors the health of forests, wetlands, and meadows in the Toronto Region. He has a keen interest in understanding how people and nature can not only coexist but thrive in urban landscapes.

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Toronto Field Naturalists wishes to acknowledge this Land through which we walk. For thousands of years, the Land has been shared by the Wendat, the Haudenosaunee, and the Anishinaabe. Toronto is situated on the Land within the Toronto Purchase, Treaty 13, the traditional and treaty Lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. This territory is also part of the Dish with One Spoon Wampum, a covenant agreement between Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Wendat peoples and allied nations to peaceably share the land and all its resources. Today, the Land is home to peoples of numerous nations. We are all grateful to have the opportunity to continue to care for and share the beauty of this Land.