Category: Wildlife Protection

Revised draft Wildlife Strategy The City of Ottawa’s revised Draft Wildlife Strategy is now available, in html in 13 pieces on the City’s web site: ottawa.ca/en/wildlife-strategy-city-ottawa or here as one PDF file (1.52 MB). The earlier (2012) version is here (also 1.52 MB). Comments are due to staff by May 24, 2013. Write to Nick Stow. Alliance Response to the City’s draft Wildlife Strategy Here is the Alliance’s response to

April 19, 2012 Below is an information note calling on the City to stop the wholesale cutting of emerald ash borer infested ash trees on public property and instead focus on saving as many of trees as possible by using biological injections as the City of Oakville is doing. It would be many times more cost effective than the massive removal of thousands of trees which won’t stop the spread

Cheryl Doran posted the following to the Nature List on April 26, 2009: Just a short note to report on the hidden Turtle Sanctuary in the Ottawa South Greenbelt. Sunday April 19th at 14:30, four Merivale High School students, one parent, and my children were out to turn over logs to look for salamanders and to clean up the wetlands in the area of Lester Rd. It was a sunny

April 18, 2009 — Cheryl Doran writes: Blanding’s Turtles in the Greenbelt: An irreplaceable part of Ottawa’s Natural Heritage that must not be destroyed by LRT   Just 15 minutes south of Parliament Hill, a breeding population of Blanding’s Turtles lives quietly in the urban wetlands within the NCC Greenbelt. Shy by nature, these wonderful animals live to be well over 70 years old. Turtles have made their home in

February 8, 2007 — Cheryl Doran writes: I’d like to share with you an Ottawa good news story! It’s about biodiversity and a refuge for species that are threatened with extinction. It’s a story about Turtles. Quiet, timid, complacent little creatures that live to be well over 70 years old and their unique home is right here in Ottawa. Just 15 minutes south of the Parliament buildings, in the nation’s