Birthday Bioblitzes
All year across the country, “citizen scientists” will be marking Canada’s 150th in the most fitting way: celebrating in nature while helping to protect it. You’re invited!
This year, across the country “citizen scientists” will be marking Canada’s 150th in the most fitting way: celebrating in nature while helping to protect it. You’re invited!
Biodiversity is the foundation of life. It is the infinite network of interconnections between, among and within species, organisms and ecosystems. Biodiversity provides fresh water, clean air and healthy soil. Humans are not outside of or somehow separate from biodiversity; we are very much part of this fabric.
Biodiversity is not just something you see in the image of a towering mountain range with glaciers, untouched turquoise lakes and waterfalls. It is also in the cracks in inner-city pavement, in the empty lots at the end of cul-de-sacs and in the parks, floodways, ravines and rivers, eskers and moraines that define our urban watersheds. It is in the hedgerows and fence lines of farms across Canada. It is so ubiquitous in fact that for generations we barely noticed it. And that’s been a part of the problem.