Thanks to everyone who was able to make it out to our Beewatch Event on the Meadoway July 13th. We enjoyed a wonderful sunny, and windy morning, and saw a variety of insects including butterflies, beetles and grasshoppers, as well as bees. A special thanks to the TRCA for hosting us and to the Meadoway Read More
Thanks to all the Juniors’ families who were able to come out and help the City plant over 400 trees at the G Ross Lord Planting event today! The weather was perfect, and we had a wonderful time, working and playing in that lovely park. I just pulled the tree nametags from my pocket–it looks Read More
Our Kanopy pick for June, Emptying the Skies, profiles the black market for migratory songbirds in Europe and some of the activists that risk their safety to protect these tiny creatures from poachers. Based on a 2010 New Yorker essay by novelist Jonathan Franzen, this outstanding (and often upsetting) documentary won the “Giving Voice to Read More
Great to share Toronto’s Birding Festival at the Leslie St. Spit with all the Juniors’ families that were able to make it out!! We had perfect weather and a lovely birding walk. Wild Ontario brought in the American Kestril, Great Horned Owl, Rough-legged Hawk, and Red-tailed Hawk, for us to view–and pet?! On our hike Read More
In recent days, the provincial government has put in play three fundamental rewrites of existing laws, which together would undo decades of progress on protecting and restoring Ontario’s natural heritage. These changes include the gutting of Ontario’s Endangered Species Act (ERO# 013-5033); exempting developers from protecting most of Ontario’s threatened and endangered species and their Read More
Our Kanopy Pick for May, “The Reluctant Radical” tracks Ken Ward Jr., chair of the Society of Environmental Journalists First Amendment Task Force, “through a series of civil disobedience direct actions, culminating with his participation in the coordinated action that shut down all the U.S. tar sands oil pipelines on October 11, 2016.” An intimate Read More
TFN is offering full scholarships for five youth from the GTA to attend Ontario Nature’s 2019 Youth Summit for Biodiversity and Environmental Leadership. The summit will be held near beautiful Lake Couchiching near Orillia on the weekend of September 20-22. In addition to spending time outdoors, highlights include: Interactive workshops and activities on topics including Read More
We’re really pleased to announce that as of a few minutes ago more than twenty years of Toronto Field Naturalist are now available online! Our newsletter began publication in September of 1938, offering Torontonians a unique and intimate view into nature in our city. Putting our 1998 issues online represents a significant milestone in making Read More
As mentioned in our recent Celebrate Earth Day post, TFN member Theresa Moore, creator of the recently-released Fauna, Photographs, led her annual Nature Walk and Litter Pick-up along German Mills Creek on April 20th. Special thanks to Theresa for her ongoing dedication to this remarkable area, and for providing the update that follows. Prior to Read More
In a move that will prove devastating to species at risk, the Ontario government has just unveiled plans to severely undermine the Endangered Species Act. Ontario Nature sums up the proposed changes as follows: “If the changes go through, Species listed as threatened or endangered may no longer be automatically protected. The Minister will have 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.