Publications & Links

Federal Funding Programs

• Habitat Stewardship Program: Financial support for stewardship projects for the recovery of Species at Risk.
   
• Interdepartmental Recovery Fund: Financial support for federal departments and departmental corporations for implementing recovery activities for Species at Risk on federal lands or under federal jurisdiction.
   
• Endangered Species Recovery Fund: Joint initiative of Environment Canada and World Wildlife Fund (Canada) to support recovery activities for species at risk of extinction.

Other Environment Canada programs that support conservation initiatives in Ontario:

• EcoAction

 
• Ecological Gifts Program

 
• Great Lakes Sustainability Fund

Articles on Species at Risk

• Conserve Ontario's Carolinian Forest: Preserve Endangered Songbirds  PDF
   
• On the Lookout for the Burrowing Owl
   
• Where is the Eskimo Curlew?
   
• The Decline of the Henslow’s Sparrow
   
• New Law to Protect Canada’s Species at Risk and Their Habitats
   
• Working Together to Save the Loggerhead Shrike
   
• Protecting Wildlife in Canada for 25 Years
   
• New Flock of Whooping Cranes Makes Its Way North on Its Own
   
• Wild Species Know No Borders
   
• Investing in the Future
   
• Piping Plovers Were Counted Too This Year
   
• A Snail Like No Other
   
• The Marmot - Canada's Most Endangered Mammal

Educators and youth

• Species at Risk Interactive Activity
   
• Species at Risk posters
   
• Space for Species, a migratory species-tracking program.
   
• Hinterland Who’s Who (educational resources on Canadian wildlife)
   
• Wild Species 2000
   
• Alderville Black Oak Savanna *
   
• Toronto Zoo – Reptiles and Amphibians *
   
• Ojibway Nature Centre *
   
• Ontario Streams – Redside Dace *
   
• The Greater Georgian Bay Reptile Awareness Program *
   
• Walpole Island Heritage Centre *

Environment Canada National Web sites

• COSEWIC Web site
   
• Species at Risk in Canada (database on the biology of species at risk and their recovery)

Environment Canada Regional Web sites

• Pacific and Yukon Region
   
• Prairie and Northern Region
   
• Ontario Region (You are here)
   
• Quebec Region
   
• Atlantic Region

Other federal departments

• DFO Ontario Region
   
• Parks Canada

Province of Ontario Web sites

• Natural Heritage Information Centre *
   
• Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources *
   
• Ontario’s Species at Risk * (Royal Ontario Museum and OMNR)
   
• Bruce Resource Stewardship Network *

Get involved!

Learn more about the organizations involved in conservation and recovery in Ontario:

• Bird Studies Canada *
   
• Nature Conservancy of Canada *
   
• Wildlife Preservation Trust Canada *
   
• Canadian Cattlemen’s Association *
   
• Wilds of Pelee Island *
   
• Toronto Zoo *
   
• Ducks Unlimited Canada *
   
• Carolinian Canada *
   
• Tallgrass Ontario *