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UPDATE MARCH 25: The walker from the Lost Rivers Walk (Garrison Creek) on March 15 that subsequently reported fever-like symptoms (see below) has reported back healthy with no COVID-19 symptoms. Read More
Effective March 16, 2020, public health advisories, as well as Federal and Provincial government statements, are asking Canadians to “not leave their homes” except for essentials. This, combined with confirmation Read More
Over the last several days, public health advisories have begun to advocate for aggressive social distancing, in an effort to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. In response, Read More
TFN is honoured to partner with the Royal Ontario Museum, TRCA, Toronto Zoo, Rouge Park and the Toronto Ornithological Club for City Nature Challenge, April 24-27! This initiative celebrates urban Read More
The Toronto Field Naturalists have recently submitted comments to an online survey hosted by the Ontario Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks (MECP) about the role of our province’s conservation Read More
Thanks to everyone who made it out to our Humber Arboretum adventure. A special thanks to Nick who introduced us to Étienne Brûlé and described his life among the Huron Read More
Come and explore the Humber Arboretum with us. Discover the trees of the Carolinian forest — the deciduous forest of southern Ontario. It is a season to notice the remarkable Read More
by Jason Ramsay-Brown It’s funny the things we don’t think to question. Some time before I was ten years old, my mother taught me that song sparrows were called chickadees. Read More
Over the past year, the crew of CBC’s The Nature of Things has been all over Tommy Thompson Park filming Accidental Wilderness: The Leslie Street Spit. This documentary debuted February Read More
On Saturday, February 1, TFN Members descended on the S. Walter Stewart Library for our annual Nature Images Show, a wonderful afternoon full of amazing work, good friends, and tasty Read More
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.