A team of students from McMaster University and Niagara College have been herding ‘eco-goats’ through the Hamilton Naturalists’ Club’s (HNC) Sheelah Dunn Dooley Nature Sanctuary, removing common buckthorn, dog strangling vine, multiflora rose, and other introduced plant species along the way.

The dual crises of climate change and rapidly accelerating biodiversity loss have spurred international action, including a commitment from the Government of Canada to conserve 25 per cent of Canada’s lands, freshwater, and oceans by 2025, working toward 30 per cent by 2030. With support from the Government of Canada and Government of Ontario, the Southern Ontario Nature Coalition (SONC) released its Final and Technical reports in 2021, sharing important insights and solutions to biodiversity lost through a Near-Urban Nature Network.

In ‘Greenbelts Around the World Responding to Local and Global Challenges’, the Greenbelt Foundation examines how greenbelts have evolved to respond to current and emerging conditions found within cities and regions around the world.

Over 50 speakers from all walks of life across many geographies to share moving and inspirational stories on protecting lands and waters in Ontario, including 12 Indigenous Nations who shared their stories.

Learn about the history of protecting, restoring, and connecting natural areas at the western tip of Lake Ontario from our very own Coordinator, Tomasz Wiercioch.

In 2020, ApexRMS conducted a wildlife corridor mapping study is to support biodiversity conservation and management activities in the Cootes to Escarpment EcoPark System. With support from the Greenbelt Foundation, the project identified habitat patches and movement corridors that promote landscape connectivity.

With support from the Canadian Wildlife Federation and TD Friends of the Environment, the 2017 and 2018 BioBlitz brought together taxonomic experts and the public (citizen scientists) together to inventory all species within EcoPark System partners properties.

Expert biologists, citizen scientists, and students banded together in the Cootes to Escarpment EcoPark System on September 20th and 21st, 2019 to create an inventory of plant and wildlife species in the EcoPark System’s natural lands.

Thanks to support from TD Friends of the Environment Fund, our community learned basic plant identification, birding, and backyard biodiversity from EcoPark System ecologists, botanists, and educators

EcoPark System partners are taking a holistic management approach to manage their individual properties in these heritage lands. With community consultation and support from the Ontario Trillium Foundation, we inform partner agencies about the protection, enhancement, and communication issues and opportunities of these areas.

EcoPark System partners are taking a holistic management approach to manage their individual properties in these heritage lands. With community consultation and support from the Ontario Trillium Foundation, we inform partner agencies about the protection, enhancement, and communication issues and opportunities of these areas.

EcoPark System partners are taking a holistic management approach to manage their individual properties in these heritage lands. With community consultation and support from the Ontario Trillium Foundation, we inform partner agencies about the protection, enhancement, and communication issues and opportunities of these areas.

EcoPark System partners are taking a holistic management approach to manage their individual properties in these heritage lands. With community consultation and support from the Ontario Trillium Foundation, we inform partner agencies about the protection, enhancement, and communication issues and opportunities of these areas.

EcoPark System partners are taking a holistic management approach to manage their individual properties in these heritage lands. With community consultation and support from the Ontario Trillium Foundation, we inform partner agencies about the protection, enhancement, and communication issues and opportunities of these areas.