For millennia, habitats across Canada have been caring for us in more ways than we can imagine. From filtering water to cleaning the air to cycling nutrients and providing sustenance for life, they ...

For millennia, the swaying wildflowers, iridescent insects and soaring songbirds of the Prairie grasslands have captured the hearts of communities across the continent. Although much of those original ...

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We will be manually removing invasive plant species and garbage that are threatening the sensitive ecosystem at Gillies Grove Nature Reserve. Many of these invasive species, including periwinkle, lily ...

Twenty-five years ago, then NCC president John Lounds strode into Ian Griffin’s Calgary office and asked him to join the Alberta Regional Advisory Board. For Ian, now chairman emeritus of national ...

I’m Evan Woelk Balzer. If you were to visit southern Manitoba a couple hundred years ago, you probably wouldn’t recognize it. In those days, millions of plains bison grazed here, migrating slowly ...

"Bear!” My partner warned me, as I walked quietly with my head down after a long, hot day of hiking through a provincial park in southern Ontario. I didn’t see the American black bear that ambled out ...

What does it look like? Snowshoe hares are named for their large hind feet, which, like snowshoes, allow them to stay on top of the snow during Canadian winters. The fur of snowshoe hares varies in ...

The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) is reimagining the use of technology to address current and future conservation challenges. Through its Conservation Technology Strategy program, NCC leverages ...

There is nothing quite like the Codroy Valley in all of Newfoundland and Labrador. Sheltered by the Long Range Mountains, the landscape opens up to a scenic, rolling countryside that follows the Grand ...

As the sun slowly rose, its golden light shone over the twin mountains that stand guard on either side of the river. Gentle bird calls flooded the air, and a breeze rustled the leaves of the nearby ...