Innovation at the Islands: Controlling Erosion at Gibraltar Point (news)
Since spring 2018, Toronto and Region Conservation Authority’s (TRCA) Environmental Monitoring and Data Management team, in partnership with Fisheries and Oceans Canada, has been monitoring fish communities and turbidity conditions...
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Information about sick and dying cormorants in Toronto (news)
For the past three weeks, we have had many reports of sick and dying cormorants at Tommy Thompson Park, Toronto Islands and across the waterfront. Preliminary tests suggest Newcastle, which...
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Trumpeter Swans at Bluffers Park (news)
Guest article by Lynne Jones, Secretary, Bluffers Park Yacht Club The largest swan in the world, the Trumpeter Swan, is native only to North America. Once hundreds of thousands of pairs...
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Let’s “Shellebrate” World Turtle Day (news)
Today is World Turtle Day: an annual celebration that helps to promote the protection of turtles, tortoises and their habitats. So take a pause today — maybe a long pause...
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This Weekend is for The Birds (news)
You can hear them even before you open your eyes in the morning. With winter’s snow finally gone and trees budding once again, the birds have returned for another season....
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Want to Learn More About Bats? So Do We! (news)
Ontario’s native bats are on the decline. Since 2012, four of the province’s eight species — little brown myotis, eastern small-footed myotis, northern myotis and tri-coloured bat — have been listed as...
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Monitoring Matters to Watershed Report Cards (news)
The state of regional forests and water resources received a ‘D’ average in the recently published 2018 Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) jurisdiction watershed report card. The ‘D’ grade...
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The Meadoway: Creating an Active Greenspace Connection between Downtown Toronto and Rouge National Urban Park (news)
16 kilometres of hydro corridor to be transformed into one of Canada’s largest urban linear parks Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA), the Weston Family Foundation, and the City of...
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The Shape of Water Management: GTA Faces Complex Challenges (news)
To mark World Water Day 2018, TRCA is sharing the following article, which first appeared in Revitalization News on December 15, 2017. Not long ago, Barry Laverick was invited to...
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It’s Watershed Report Card Time Again! (news)
Think back to elementary school days. Remember how every term used to end? There was the teacher, handing out report cards: your grades all listed by subject. Some of us...
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