TFN’s 2021 Nature Images Show

Our annual Nature Images show was, by every measure, a huge success this year with a hundred attendees on Zoom and twenty-one presenters (eleven participating for the first time!). Very special thanks to Lynn Miller for organizing such a fantastic event and, of course, to all of our presenters who generously shared their images & Read More

Great winter watch: Borealis

Borealis, a much-anticipated nature film by Kevin McMahon, has been made available for free streaming on the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) website. “In his new feature documentary Borealis, acclaimed director Kevin McMahon (Waterlife) travels deep into the heart of the boreal forest to explore the chorus of life in Canada’s iconic wilderness. How do Read More

Wait, this again? Bill 229 threatens to undermine conservation in the province

In what may seem much like a scene from the movie Groundhog Day to many Ontarians, Nov 5th’s provincial omnibus budget Bill 229 includes schedules that once again work to diminish the effectiveness of our Conservation Authorities and threaten protections for endangered species. According to Ontario Nature “Schedule 6 of omnibus Budget Bill 229 proposes Read More

Canadian Bat Box Project: Call for Participants

Karen Vanderwolf (Trent University), in partnership with the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Canadian Wildlife Federation, is looking for citizen scientists to contribute to research aimed at better understanding how our native bats are using bat boxes, and the effectiveness of their design. “Our research seeks to determine which bat species use bat boxes across Read More

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

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

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.