Parks Blog

Category: Ecological Integrity

  • Hands off park wildlife!

    Protected areas are fascinating places. If you’re lucky, during your visit you may spot a wide variety of wildlife who call these parks home. However, you may not always see healthy animals. In these natural spaces, you could see animals that look sick, injured, or orphaned. We know you want to help wildlife, but helping…

  • Invasive species in our parks: what's your role?

    In today’s post, Amy Hall, a resource management group leader, gets us up to speed on invasive species, and shares some of the great prevention work happening at Pinery Provincial Park. It’s Invasive Species Awareness Week! No matter what role you play in parks, you are an essential part of preventing the spread of invasive…

  • From Discovery team to butterfly biologist

    Today’s blog was written by Michelle Polley, a Master’s student conducting research at Pinery Provincial Park where she formerly worked as a Discovery ranger. I had never been lucky enough to camp at a provincial park. So when I started my first summer on the Discovery team at Pinery Provincial Park, I didn’t know what…

  • Forever protected

    We all know Ontario’s provincial parks aim to protect our natural landscapes and species. But did you know that each individual park is protected for its own (often very specific) reasons? Our parks work together as a network of biodiversity and protection. Whether an immense wilderness or a small urban nature reserve, every park plays…

  • How to book a virtual school program

    Our virtual school programs bring different aspects of Ontario’s natural and cultural heritage into your classroom through stories of the people and landscapes our provincial parks aim to protect. Each program engages your students through storytelling, activities, discussion, and personal experiences.

  • International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2024

    Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Scientists are absolutely integral to Ontario Parks, working as researchers, biologists, ecologists, and more! Take a look at the work of a few of our awesome women scientists:

  • Happy World Wetlands Day!

    Bog. Swamp. Fen. Marsh. Muck, mud and mire… It sounds terrible, doesn’t it? When movie directors want to make things hard for their characters, they sometimes pick a wetland to chuck them into – think Humphrey Bogart in the classic movie “African Queen,” where he struggles day after day to pull his boat through an…

  • Christmas Bird Count — keep the community science tradition going!

    Today’s post comes from Cortney LeGros, the Healthy Parks Healthy People coordinator at Ontario Parks. The holiday season is steeped in tradition. No matter how you celebrate, there’s one scientific tradition that’s been around for over 120 years to help mark the holidays. For me, the holidays would not be complete without participating in at…

  • How do chipmunks prepare for and live through winter?

    Today’s post comes from Gabriel Argenti, a Discovery Student at Rondeau Provincial Park. As winter approaches, most wildlife undergoes seasonal changes or new habits. Some animals prepare for the cold by storing food away, going into hibernation, eating to gain weight, growing a thicker coat. Others migrate south to warmer climates to wait out the…

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