How I Can Become a Bird Friendly Citizen Join Nature Canada

 How I Can Become a Bird Friendly Citizen 

 Join Nature Canada

Nature Canada supports community-based bird conservation programs across Canada to promote local stewardship and restoration efforts. Since 1996, Nature Canada has supported more than 150 grassroots projects and invested close to $450,000 in on-the-ground projects involving 100 Important Bird Areas.

Nature Canada fought vigorously to bring Bill C-15 into law to ensure shipping companies and their ships are held accountable if they illegally dump bilge oil in Canadian waters. 

The new law protects birds from chronic oil pollution at sea and could prevent the deaths of some 300,000 seabirds annually off the coast of Newfoundland alone.

The Boreal forest region contains crucial breeding habitat for 80% of the waterfowl species of North America, 63% of the finch species, and 53% of warbler species. 

To protect the boreal for all birds, Nature Canada is a member of the Boreal Forest Conservation Framework, a made-in-Canada effort to balance conservation and development in Canada’s Boreal region. 

We are working to ensure endangered birds are saved and common birds stay common.

As climate change progresses, many birds could be forced to shift their ranges out of traditional areas. 

Where will they go?

 Nature Canada is a strong advocate for the need to designate and protect new areas of habitat for birds as they attempt to adapt to our changing climate, not just relying on static networks of existing protected areas.




male and female yellow-breasted chats 

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