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Tag: pollinators

  • For the pollinators! Two pollinator gardens you can visit and learn about this year

    Gardens are not something you typically think of when it comes to Ontario Parks, considering we preserve many of Ontario’s natural landscapes. But there’s one type of garden we’re happy to build in our parks: pollinator gardens! Last summer, two southeastern parks worked hard to build and establish new pollinator gardens. Why? Because planting native…

  • Guess how many types of bee call Ontario home?

    When we think of bees, we often picture honey bees. We imagine a swarm buzzing around a honeycomb hive. But honey bees are just one of 400 different types of bees in Ontario (and we’re discovering new bee species all the time!). And honey bees aren’t even a native species. In fact, honey bees are relatively…

  • 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.

  • The story behind Emily Provincial Park's pollinator garden

    Today’s post comes from Alexander Renaud, a Discovery Program Lead at Emily Provincial Park. In the summer of 2018, our Discovery staff at Emily Provincial Park wanted to do something BIG to help the park. Previous years have seen the instillation of turtle nest protection boxes, the collection of species data through a BioBlitz, and…

  • Don't bring plants from home!

    Our parks protect some of the most biodiverse places in Ontario, and this biodiversity includes an enormous number of native plant species. From giant Tulip Trees in the south to small ancient White Cedars on the Niagara Escarpment, north to carnivorous wildflowers (and the infamous Poison Ivy almost everywhere) — plants are the basis of our forest…

  • 6 ways to be the best park neighbour

    Provincial parks are not islands. Well, some of them are. What we mean is: there is no invisible wall around parks limiting their relationships with the outside world. Even if you never visit a park, you benefit from the pollinator diversity they protect, the CO2 they sequester in wood, roots, and peat, and the clean…

  • Bats at Ontario Parks

    Today’s post comes from Natural Heritage Education Supervisor Alistair MacKenzie and Bat Stewardship Technician Heather Sanders. Bats are the only mammal capable of true sustained flight, and with over 1,300 species and counting, they make up the second largest order of mammals.

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