Forests across Canada are more than just beautiful landscapes. They are home to recreation and quiet reflection. Forests ...

On this Earth Day, the significance of forests for conservation, community benefits and human health has never been more ...

The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) has a unique opportunity to protect an ecologically and culturally significant coastal landscape on the southeastern shore of Prince Edward Island (PEI).

This species ranged from southern Alberta and Saskatchewan, south into Texas and New Mexico. Today, swift foxes only occur in about three per cent of their historic Canadian range as of 2009. Many ...

The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) has a unique opportunity to protect an ecologically and culturally significant coastal landscape on the southeastern shore of Prince Edward Island (PEI).

Lisa McLaughlin joined the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) in 1999. She has held a variety of positions ranging from stewardship assistant to chief conservation officer. Currently, Lisa is the vice ...

As winter lingers on, it’s reassuring to know our forests will soon be carpeted with beautiful wildflowers known as the spring ephemerals. These plants, including trout lilies, trilliums, bloodroot ...

I posed this question during the second annual retreat for the Weston Family Conservation Science Fellowship Program in September 2024. The other Fellows and I were sitting around our cabin’s fire pit ...

Located in Lake Huron, the internationally significant Manitoulin Island is the largest freshwater island in the world. It supports some of the highest quality alvar habitat on the planet, ...

Grasslands are nature’s unsung heroes, with 90 per cent of their biomass hidden underground in vast and deep root systems. But therein lies their secret powers: Grasslands absorb and store billions of ...

What does it look like? Zebra mussels are freshwater mussels measuring around 2.5 centimetres long on average, but can grow up to four centimetres. They are named for the dark, striped pattern on ...