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Urgent: Protect the Lower Duffins Creek Wetland Complex

On Friday, October 30, the provincial Ministry of Housing and Municipal Affairs announced a Minister’s Zoning Order (MZO) fast-tracking a warehouse development proposal that would essentially pave over part of the Lower Duffins Creek Wetland Complex, bringing significant damage and destruction to this provincially significant habitat. While the board of the Toronto and Region Conservation Read More

Winged Euonymus

TFN Juniors Fall Nature Club – Acorn Dissection

Hi Junior Naturalists! Thanks to everyone who joined the PollinateTO planting event, and to everyone who contributed photos to this week’s slide show. So many great sightings and nature activities! What’s inside an acorn? The white meaty part of the acorn are the embryonic leaves which will never turn green and never appear above ground. Read More

A Successful AGM!

TFN held our 2020 Annual General Meeting over Zoom on Oct 22, 2020. It was so wonderful to see so many smiling faces again as we wrapped up another amazing year! To kick off the AGM our outgoing president, Jason Ramsay-Brown, showed a quick three minute video highlighting much of what we’ve accomplished since our Read More

High Park Oak Savanna

TFN Juniors Fall Nature Club – Oak Savanna

Hello Junior Naturalists! Thanks to everyone who joined us today at the TFN Juniors Class, and also to those who contributed pictures for our slideshow. Please enjoy our nature art, and learn about the Black Oak Savanna of High Park, Toronto. To learn more about the species that you might see at High Park, have Read More

Collage of Nature Journals

TFN Juniors Fall Nature Club – Leaf Art

Great to see everyone at our third TFN Juniors Fall Nature Class. Awesome contributions to the slide show! Participants remembered species that we’d seen before, and details of their life cycle. Congratulations! It was so fun working on our nature collages together. Please send in photos of them for next week’s slideshow. Here is a Read More

Toronto Nature Now on CJRU 1280 AM

100th Episode of Toronto Nature Now

This morning, CJRU 1280AM broadcast our 100th episode of Toronto Nature Now, TFN’s weekly nature show on Ryerson Radio! TFN Members Bruce Thompson, Paul Overy, Joan Lewis, Nancy Dengler, Richard Partington, John Carley, Jason Ramsay-Brown, Jonathan Harris, Ellen Schwartzel and Donnell Gasbarrini join host Bryce Turner to explain what nature means to them. On behalf Read More

Watch our October Lecture Now

TFN’s is thrilled to have successfully hosted our second virtual lecture, Invading the Urban Ecosystem: Mechanisms, Impact and Management of Dog-strangling Vine presented to us by Stuart Livingstone, Lecturer, Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, U of T-Scarborough and Post-doctoral Researcher: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, U of T. A recording of the presentation Read More

Leaf Art

TFN Juniors Fall Nature Club – Nature Journaling

Hi Junior Naturalists! Thanks to everyone who shared your nature discoveries for this week’s slide show. Great to see everyone who was able to join us for the 2nd TNF Juniors Fall Nature Class. Have a look at the slide show to see remarkable galls, fungi, and insects. If you find some leaf galls, be Read More

TFN Juniors Fall Nature Club – Leaves!

Hi Everyone! So excited to get started on our Nature Club this fall. Great to see familiar faces and meet new participants as well. Hope you all had fun–please forgive our technical glitches–things will get smoother as we go.  Your challenge for this week is to collect colored leaves of many different shapes and sizes. Read More

View of the Don Valley and downtown from Leaside bridge

Golf Courses or Parklands?

City-owned golf courses should be opened to public parkland use during COVID-19. Let’s ask the City to slow down and consult the public before renewing multi-year contracts with the golf course operators. Council is on the brink of quietly renewing these contracts at the Sept. 30 Council meeting. Meanwhile, cities across North America are exploring Read More