Tag: Urban ecology

• Making Southern Ontario Wild Again?

  It was a journey a long time ago for me. Wilderness completely surrounded me for hundreds of miles. Sitting on a lichen-covered rock outcrop overlooking the flowing water of a creek, I was in heaven watching a pair of Otters play in the rapids. Ok, in actual fact, I was really enjoying watching these animals,…

  Ben Porchuk

  June 26, 2017

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  bears, biodiversity, carolinian canada, Climate Change, cougars, Ecological Recovery, forests, georgian bay, moose, outdoors, prairie, pristine nature, screech owls, soltitude, Urban ecology, urban nature, wetlands, wilderness, wolves

• Big Impacts Across Small Spaces…Doug Tallamy Photosynthesizes the Case for Native Plants

  All photographs by Ben Porchuk. Tallamy talks nature in Toronto. Toronto… and nature? Yes, Toronto, the city of over 6 million people. It might not be the first place that comes to mind when you think of re-building the natural world. But Doug Tallamy,  an entomologist from the University of Delaware, was invited specifically to…

  Ben Porchuk

  October 28, 2016

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  attracting wildlife to garden, ben porchuk, carolinian canada, Doug Tallamy, go wild grow wild, in the zone gardens, Jarmo Jalava, leamington, london ontario, Lorraine Johnson, lost and found in nature, Michael Moore, Native plants, nature, outdoors, restorative nature experience, screech owls, sex, toronto, Urban ecology, world wildlife fund canada