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Carolinian Canada
Carolinian Canada is a network of leaders growing healthy landscapes for a green future in the Carolinian Zone, Canada’s extraordinary far south, in the spirit and practice of reconciliation. We connect science, community and business for healthy ecosystems and climate-smart neighbourhoods from Toronto to Windsor, Ontario. We appreciate their support in community connections and thank them for including us in their Pawpaw Parade and Garden Almanac annually.
NPCA
The Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority (NPCA) is a community-based natural resource management agency that protects, enhances, and sustains healthy watersheds. With over 63 years of experience, the NPCA offers watershed programs and services that focus on flood and hazard management, source water protection, species protection, ecosystem restoration, community stewardship, and land management. The NPCA supports us in many of our habitat restoration projects.
The Future Ground Network
Future Ground Network exists to offer training and resources to emerging and experienced local grassroots groups to amplify their impact on the issues that matter most to their communities. The network also helps connect and unify groups throughout the environmental movement, making coordination and large-scale mobilization possible. We appreciate their support for our Natives for Nature program.
The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada
Inspired by our founder’s legacy of inspiring hope through action, we use community-centered conservation to mobilize action on the convergence of three crises: biodiversity loss, climate change, and environmental inequity in Canada and in “Chimpscape” regions of Africa. We appreciate their support for our Natives for Nature program.
Land Care Niagara
Land Care Niagara (LCN) is committed to creating a healthy and sustainable rural and urban environment, consisting of citizens who are knowledgeable and active in land resource management. As a not-for-profit community-based organization we seek to provide services and information to rural landowners and other users of private and public lands in Niagara through educational outreach, training initiatives, and land stewardship activities.
The Butterflyway Project
Wild pollinators such as butterflies and bees are crucial to human survival. Climate change, land development and pesticide use threaten their survival, and therefore ours as well. The Butterflyway Project helps people create viable pollinator habitat in neighbourhoods across Canada.
Turtle Guardians
At Turtle Guardians, we provide education, conduct research, rescue adult turtles on roads, and implement road mitigation solutions to reduce turtle mortality. We also rescue, incubate and release turtle hatchlings from nests in jeopardy under special permits. This practice, also known as “headstarting”, increases their odds of survival and helps bolster turtle populations.
The Ontario Turtle Conservation Center
Ontario Turtle Conservation Centre (home of Kawartha Turtle Trauma Centre) is a registered charity whose goal is to protect and conserve Ontario’s native turtles and the habitat in which they live. We accomplish this by operating a turtle hospital that treats, rehabilitates, and releases injured turtles, by performing extensive research in the field to further conservation initiatives, and by running a comprehensive education and outreach program.
Niagara Rowing School
Niagara Rowing School is generously supporting our spring clean up with the use of their space and canoes so that we can access the shorelines to remove trash from the Jordan Harbour. The area under the highway bridge is not owned by our town or conservation authority and accumulates hundreds of pounds of trash each season. Thank you for helping us keep Niagara beautiful.
The Wood Shed
A personal interest in furniture and hobby woodworking led the owner of The Wood Shed, James Deboer, to begin harvesting his own wooded farm lot. With a keen eye for specialty wood and a sense of what people desired, exotic wood species were soon added to the ever-growing “woodshed” inventory. We appreciate their support for our habitat restoration projects this season.
Owen’s Hiking and Adventures
Owen believes that the best learning and life experiences happen in “the field”, and his time in Niagara’s outdoors since being a kid has taught him the most. His adventures in Niagara have pushed him to far corners of the world, including the Amazon, the Everglades, and the Great Barrier Reef to show people the powers of exploring natural areas, and how important nature is for both wildlife and society alike. Reach out to book a hike – you will not be disappointed!
Invasive Species Center
The Invasive Species Centre connects stakeholders, knowledge and technology to prevent and reduce the spread of invasive species that harm Canada’s environment, economy and society. We appreciate their support as we tackle our sticky weed problem through our ‘Stop the Sticky Bedstraw Brah’ Project. Updates coming soon as we continue to work through this remediation.
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The Green Herons 