9 ways to green your holiday
Make it a green holiday (Photo by Amy Anastasopoulos)
Here at the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC), we’re gearing up for an eco-friendly holiday, so we thought we’d share some of our favourite tips on how to “green” your holiday celebrations. ...
Beetles: Nature's mess and soil pollinators
Soldier beetle (Photo © Stephen Luk)
Pollinators are extremely important. Not only are they responsible for one out of every three bites of food we eat, but they are vital in creating and maintaining the habitats and ecosystems on which many animals rely for food and...
Bees: Nature's busy farmers
Bee balm (Photo by NCC)
Pollinators are extremely important: not only are they responsible for one out of every three bites of food we eat, but they are vital in creating and maintaining the habitats and ecosystems that many animals rely on for food and shelter. Bees...
Water: A place for wonders
Lake Ontario, view from Oakville (Photo by NCC)
Here are some images of water taken from some of my favourite places in the world. The first is the view of Lake Ontario taken from my hometown in southern Ontario. When we were kids, my dad used to take my sisters and I to the lake to feed the...
Tips and tricks for low light photography
1/13 F5.6 ISO 400 (Photo by Amy Anastasopoulos/NCC staff)
A few years ago, I dropped my little Coolpix camera in the Lake Saint-Jean in Quebec while kayaking with my sister and cousin. Despite leaving the camera body, memory card and battery in a bag of rice for four days, my poor Coolpix was never the...
Water is life
A beaver carries a willow branch across the water. (Photo by Steve Hillebrand, courtesy of USFWS)
Water is beneficial. Water is necessary. Water is peaceful and soothing, but also fun and entertaining. There are roughly one million cubic kilometres of water on Earth. This includes oceans, glaciers, icebergs, rivers, lakes, groundwater and...
