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  1. Arkive.org 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Images of life on earth. Creating a lasting audio-visual record of life on earth.
  2. Backyard Habitats 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  3. Bat Conservation International 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Site devoted to bats.
  4. Birding in Canada 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Information about Canadian birding.
  5. Canada: A Natural History 
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
  6. Connexions Annual 1994 
    A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1994
    Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
  7. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
  8. Federation of Ontario Naturalists 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    An independent, not-for-profit nature and conservation organization, founded in 1931 as a provincial voice for the conservation of forests, wetlands, waterways, grassland and wildlife.
  9. Fluvarium 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The word Fluvarium literally means "windows on a stream". In this case, the stream is Nagles's Hill Brook, a tributary of Rennies River, which has been diverted to flow past nine underwater windows.
  10. The Green Trees Beyond 
    A Memoir

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
  11. International Dark Sky Association 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Concerned with stopping the adverse environmental impact of light pollution and space debris.
  12. Kingston Field Naturalists 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
  13. Lady beetle survey (Canadian Nature Federation) 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
  14. Landscapes of the Interior 
    Re-explorations of Nature and the Human Spirit

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
  15. The Moronic Sport: ORVs on Public Lands 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    I do not accept the premise that abuse of our lands is something that we must tolerate as inevitable. It is our land. It is our children's land, and their children's land. We have a responsibility to pass these lands on to the next generation in better condition than we found them.
    Talking about promoting 'responsible' ORV use is like suggesting we ought to promote "responsible wife abuse" or "responsible child abuse."
  16. A Natural History of Canada 
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
  17. Nature Canada 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A member-based, non-profit conservation organization. Focuses on conservation initiatives to protect birds, endangered species, and wildlands and oceans.
  18. Nature Conservancy of Canada 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
  19. Nature Saskatchewan 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Non-profit conservation striving to help protect Saskatchewan's native species and natural ecosystems.
  20. Nature Study 
    A Journal of Environmental Education and Intrepretation - Periodical profile published 1989

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  21. NatureServe 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A non-profit conservation organization that provides the scientific information and tools needed to help guide effective conservation action. NatureServe and its network of natural heritage programs are the leading source for information about rare and endangered species and threatened ecosystems.NatureServe represents an international network of biological inventories—known as natural heritage programs or conservation data centers—operating in all 50 U.S. states, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean.
  22. Naturesongs 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Provides samples of various natural sounds, promotes nature recording and archiving, and provides a library of sounds that people can refer to when they hear something new.
  23. Nova Scotia Herptofaunal Atlas 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Documenting the distribution and abundance of Nova Scotia's amphibian and reptile species.
  24. Oak Ridges Trail Association 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Engages in and promotes conservation, restoration and appreciation of the natural environment surrounding the trail system and encourages ecologically responsible attitudes towards the Moraine.
  25. Only protect: A photographic celebration of our endangered earth 
    New Internationalist, May 2005 - #378

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2005
  26. Rogue Primate 
    An Exploration of Human Domestication

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    "The first domesticated animal, according to Livingston, was neither dog nor goat, but huamn. Humans cuts themselves adrift from the real world by becoming entirely dependent on ideas. Technical ideas gave them the power to manipulate nature as well as a rationalization for their destructiveness. Now humans have drawn other animals, and even the natural world itself, into the service of their belief systems. Even our understanding of nature is informed by an ideological insistence that domination is shoehow 'natural'"
  27. Saugeen Valley Conservation Authority 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The conservation authority covering the Saugeen River watershed.
  28. Toronto Ravines — Ours to Preserve 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1982
    Toronto's ravines are a treasure; it's up to us to preserve them.
  29. Why the zoo shot its tigers 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter

Experts on Nature in the Sources Directory

  1. Canadian Wildlife Federation
  2. Connexions Information Sharing Services
  3. Nature Conservancy of Canada
  4. Royal Ontario Museum

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