Why do forests matter? Our #mywildcanada Twitter chat asked you what you thought
Tamarack forest (Photo by NCC)
On September 24 we hosted a live Twitter chat on the theme of why forests matter and through the #MyWildCanada weekly hashtag. Here's what you told us when we asked you why towering trees, forest creatures, mossy ground and waving branches...
Why forests matter to Albertans
Conservation Volunteers at the HG Lawrence Property (Photo by NCC)
I grew up in Winnipeg. The areas surrounding the city are known for beautiful farmland and open skies that seem to go on forever. Anyone who has lived in the southern prairies has fond memories of staring at the sky while a storm rolled in, or...
Why I walk in the woods
American Chestnut (Photo by Norfolk County)
The woods deliver in every season. Backus Woods is my favourite refuge and whenever I visit I am reminded why. It’s nothing in particular, really, but the experience itself. It’s breathing in the sweet, fresh oxygen-rich air as snow...
Why forests matter speakers series reminds us of the value of trees
Forest by the Humber River, ON (Photo by Michael Gil, Wikimedia Commons)
I think everyone intrinsically knows that nature matters. That forests, made up of trees, literally give us life. But I also think it’s easy to forget (I, myself, am guilty of this). The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) set out to remind...
Forests are too big to fail: The value of our urban forests
Forest by the Humber River, ON (Photo by Michael Gil, Wikimedia Commons)
With 16,000 trees per square kilometre — or four trees per person — the City of Toronto is indeed a city in a forest, and that’s never more evident than when you stand at the top of the CN Tower in summer. But there’s a...
A call to conserve the world's last great forests
Carolinian forest, Ontario (Photo courtesy of Earth Images Foundation)
There are few other groups of species that have impacted the face of our planet than trees…. We define the major life zones of earth based on the presence or absence of forests. At one time all plants were grasses, ferns and horsetails...
