Get Involved

All of us have a role to play in keeping the Great Lakes great. Collectively, we can become involved in community programs, including those to protect the environment and clean up past damage. This page provides information on how citizens can get engaged in environmental activities. These include:
Volunteer Programs
What You Can Do For Your Environment
Funding Programs

VOLUNTEER PROGRAMS

• Volunteer Activities at Environment Canada
  Environment Canada's Volunteers Web site contains exciting volunteer opportunities for people from every walk of life. The programs reflect the diversity of Canadian environmental concerns and include water, wildlife, weather, and environmental action.
• Community Animation Program
  Aims to build community capacity to act on issues which show links between human health and the natural environment.
• Volunteer Wildlife Monitoring: Choosing the Project That's Right For You
  It is not always easy to know which volunteer wildlife monitoring project best matches your own interests and experience. This site can help you to decide, through a chart of programs and descriptions of the time commitment and skill level each requires.
• Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network - EMAN
  The Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network (EMAN) is a national network of monitoring and research sites characterized by long term, multi-disciplinary studies.
• Youth & the Environment
  Connect to youth and organizations in environmental fields to get involved.
• Volunteer for Nature *
  Join a small group of volunteers on 3 to 16-day expeditions to build trails, monitor wildlife, or restore habitat in outstanding natural areas.
• Bring Back the Don *
  Bring Back the Don is a citizens' group sponsored by the City of Toronto, that works to "bring back" a clean, green and accessible Don River watershed.

WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR ENVIRONMENT

• What You Can Do to Protect the Environment
  This site contains useful information, resources, tools and ideas to help you take action for a healthier environment.
• Celebrate National Wildlife Week (2nd week of April)
  Kids, teachers, parents, community leaders! You can take action to protect Canada's wildlife and the places they need to live. Create your own National Wildlife Week event.
• Donating Ecologically Sensitive Land
  Ecological Gifts Program enhances tax benefits to donors of qualified ecologically sensitive land - create a natural legacy and receive a significant tax break.
• Protecting Wildlife
  Visit this site to learn about wildlife and habitat conservation in Ontario. You'll find information and publications about protecting natural spaces and the wild plants and animals that live there.

FUNDING PROGRAMS

• This site contains information on environmental funding programs. Funding Programs