by Pollinator Team | Feb 3, 2021 | Pollinators
Have you heard the term “community science”? Community science gives everyone an opportunity to participate in science and conservation. Community scientists help researchers simply by getting outside and observing the natural world, all the while...
by Pollinator Team | Nov 27, 2020 | Pollinators
If you’ve been lucky enough to visit one of Ontario’s 45 Provincial Parks you know how special and beautiful these wild places are. One park that Wildlife Preservation Canada’s Native Pollinator Initiative has been fortunate to spend a lot of time at...
by Pollinator Team | Oct 28, 2020 | Native Pollinator Initiative, Pollinators, Species at Risk
Colette Kenny recently joined WPC’s Bumble Bee Watch Community Science Program as a volunteer. She is writing today as a guest blogger about her efforts to support native pollinators on her half-acre homestead, located northeast of Kingston, Ontario. She writes...
by Pollinator Team | Sep 30, 2020 | Native Pollinator Initiative, Pollinators
By Hayley Tompkins During these challenging times and periods of change, we can take comfort in the words of Maya Angelou: “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty”. To highlight...
by Pollinator Team | Aug 4, 2020 | Pollinators, Species at Risk
Patricia Prelich, a Master of Environmental Student at the University of Toronto, has partnered with Wildlife Preservation Canada to better understand the habitat requirements of at-risk bumble bees. For the last few years, WPC’s Bumble Bee Recovery team has...
