Self-Guided Walk: Best 15 Minute Walk in the City
With some four-hundred identified species of wildflower, shrub, and tree to enjoy, and deep history stretching back to the earliest days of Toronto (York), this might be the best fifteen Read More
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OIPC: Garlic Mustard Workshop
The Ontario Invasive Plant Council (OIPC) is offering a virtual workshop on Best Management Practices for dealing with Garlic Mustard! Workshop is two, 2-hour classes, and will be run twice Read More
Natural Garden Exemptions – Have Your Say!
When Nina-Marie Lister’s garden blew up the media in 2020, many TFNers shook their heads in dismay. The City of Toronto had just spent years drafting and passing its official Read More
Storytime in the Garden: The Boreal Forest with Lindsey Carmichael
Our friends at the Toronto Botanical Garden will be hosting a family-friendly (ages 6 and up) Zoom Webinar with Lindsey Carmichael, author of more than 20 STEM books for children Read More
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 Read More
Self-Guided Walk: Ecological restoration in the Don
We enjoy thinking that our walks in Toronto’s natural areas are visits to remnants of wilderness that have endured centuries of city-building. However, after 200 years of growth, there is 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 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 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 Read More
Watch Our November Lecture Now
Many thanks to Dr. Allie Anderson, Postdoctoral Fellow at Trent University, who joined us on November 1 to deliver her presentation Shorebird stopover ecology in the 3rd largest wetland in Read More