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2019 City Budget and our ravines

As has been lamented by many, our ravines were not explicitly afforded the kind of support in the City’s 2019 budget that we all know they so sorely need. This Read More

Trail in Tommy Thompson Park

Making Great Parks Survey

Waterfront Toronto is looking for feedback on “the types of outdoor and park spaces that people most enjoy.” Please take some time to complete their survey and let them know Read More

Endangered Spotted Turtle

Review of Ontario’s Endangered Species Act

What does cutting “red-tape” in favour of business look like when it comes to protecting endangered species? The provincial government asserts the 10th Year Review of Ontario’s Endangered Species Act Read More

Tree Swallow in Cottonwood Flats

Toronto’s Draft Biodiversity Strategy

Public consultation events for Toronto’s Draft Biodiversity Strategy will be held on February 20, 26, 28, and March 2. Join in and raise your voice in support of biodiversity and Read More

Cormorant on the water. Copyright Zunaid Khan

Hunting season for double-crested cormorants

Devastated by toxic chemicals only decades ago, Ontario’s population of double-crested cormorants has seen substantial recovery in recent years. The Government of Ontario has put forth a proposal to establish Read More

Rouge valley wetland

Stop Bill 66

Ontario’s Open for Business Act (Bill 66) threatens our Greenbelt, sensitive natural habitat, and important farmland. Economic and housing opportunities already abound in Ontario cities and towns without the need Read More

Fall colours from Vista Trail, Rouge Park

So What If We Lose the Environmental Commissioner?

Prepared by Ellen Schwartzel, TFN Board of Directors Ellen Schwartzel’s career included advising three Environmental Commissioners, and she was Deputy Environmental Commissioner from 2013 till retiring in July 2018. Ontario 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.