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Links
You can Adopt an Animal through the Toronto Zoo:
http://www.torontozoo.com
Adopt–A–Pond gives you a chance to protect and sustain existing wetlands in your community:
http://www.torontozoo.com/adoptapond/
Bird Studies Canada conducts surveys on loons and other birds all over the country:
http://www.bsc–eoc.org/bscmain.html
Have a look at what the Canadian Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Network is doing:
http://www.carcnet.ca/english/carcnethome.html
The Canadian Peregrine Foundation monitors peregrine falcons and their chicks:
http://www.peregrine–foundation.ca
You can even do ecological monitoring in your own backyard!
Click here for more activities with the Canadian Wildlife Federation:
http://www.cwf–fcf.org/pages/home/default_e.asp?language=e
Find out what the Citizens Environment Watch is doing:
http://www.utoronto.ca/envstudy/cew/cew.htm
Environment Canada and the Canadian Nature Federation bring you a suite of four programs to monitor ecosystem health in your own backyard or community.
http://www.naturewatch.ca
Learn all about Frogwatching! Register as a FrogWatch observer:
http://www.frogwatch.ca
Canada is one of over 70 countries which have agreed to introduce the GLOBE school program to monitor temperature and precipitation:
http://www.globe.gov
Monarch Watch is dedicated to helping monarch butterflies by following their migration:
http://www.monarchwatch.org
Spring into action by collecting the blooming time of plants across Canada:
http://www.plantwatch.ca
Do you want something interesting to do during Canada's long winters? Project FeederWatch participants count the birds at their feeders and submit their data:
http://www.bsc–eoc.org/national/pfw.html
Have your local schools participate in Rescue Mission Planet Earth: Indicators for Action project, where the school community assesses the sustainability of an area based on 16 sets of indicators:
http://www.schoolnet.ca/learning/sustainableplanet
Become a Skywatcher like "Cloudy":
http://www.weatheroffice.pyr.ec.gc.ca/skywatchers/index_e.html
Go here for a grassroots educational monitoring of environmental quality:
http://www.utoronto.ca/envstudy/cew/cew.htm
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Check out EnviroZine, Environment Canada's online newsmagazine for articles about important lifestyle choices you can make in order to maintain a healthy environment.
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These sites will provide you with valuable information for planning your ecological monitoring activity:
Resources for greening your backyard:
birdfeeders/birdhouses/birdbaths/pools:
http://www.ianr.unl.edu/pubs/Wildlife/g672.HTM#pool
http://birding.miningco.com/msub12–feeders.htm
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