Parks Blog

Tag: ecological integrity

  • Habitat restoration at Forks of the Credit

    Planning a trip to Forks of the Credit Provincial Park? We want to let you know the park may look at bit different from last time because of an exciting grassland restoration project!

  • Your purchase helps parks: revitalizing Killarney’s aquatic ecosystems

    Did you buy something from our online holiday store last year? In today’s post, Ontario Parks staff talk about some of the vital protection work your purchase helped fund! Ontario Parks — as part of a bigger provincial effort — has been working hard to assess and repair ecological integrity in many of our inland…

  • Enhancing biodiversity in Killarney's tree plantations

    This article was written by Connor Oke, a marketing intern at Ontario Parks, using information provided by Ed Morris, Ontario Parks’ northeast zone ecologist.  When Killarney Provincial Park was established in 1964, park managers faced a problem: what to do with old fields belonging to former homesteads within the park’s boundaries. To prevent the spread…

  • Join our community of science

    We’ve made the switch from citizen science to community science. Here at Ontario Parks, we love it when our visitors can get involved in science. From iNaturalist to Bumblebee Watch, eBird, bioblitzes, and more, volunteers help us to collect important information about our parks. These efforts help us to understand how plant and animal populations…

  • Your purchase helps parks: Preserving Darlington's habitat

    Did you buy something from our online holiday store last year? In today’s post, Monica Fromberger, an ecologist at Darlington Provincial Park, talks about some of the vital protection work your purchase helped fund! Darlington is hard at work this fall with some ecological integrity projects to preserve habitats for different species throughout the park.

  • Uncovering the "birdiest" trail at Pinery

    Today’s post comes from Habitat Stewardship Technician Justin Johnson from Pinery Provincial Park. Justin has a M.Sc. in biology with a focus on bird acoustics.  Birders are an interesting breed of people. Sometimes everything they do seems to subvert the norms of society. Sleeping in? Rather not. Too much coffee? No such thing. $4500 binoculars? Yeah, I’ve…

  • An iNaturalist milestone: 500,000 observations!

    In today’s post, Algonquin Provincial Park‘s Assistant Superintendent David LeGros helps us celebrate a big milestone for community scientists around the province! For over five years now, Ontario Parks has been encouraging park visitors to submit their observations of nature — everything from plants, animals, and fungi — to our community science project in iNaturalist. Over…

  • Turtles love water (bottles!)

    What do turtles and reusable water bottles have in common? More than you might imagine. Turtles need our help, and we’ve partnered with our friends at Chilly Moose (and their reusable bottles) to help meet the challenge!

  • What types of wildlife might I see at Ontario Parks?

    If you’re new to Ontario Parks, you might be a little nervous about the animals that call our parks home. Many of us live in cities or suburbs, with little interaction with wildlife, so we don’t know how to react or behave. We want your parks experience to be fun and safe, both for you…

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