Purging the Plastics at Piggott Bay Beach
By: Kelly FretwellReposted from the Mayne Island Conservancy Beachcombing has long been one of my favourite outdoor activities. Since I was a little kid I’ve enjoyed wandering along shorelines of …
Environmental Education: Now, more than ever
Reflections on the eve of our Recharge conferencet The below is an excerpt from Gareth Thomson’s original reflection on the Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication (EECOM) 2019 conference …
Patagonia by Sea: Random Thoughts and Photographs
Ocean edges have lured humans for as long as we’ve existed as a species. From the first people who settled along African shores, to colonizers during the age of discovery …
Frequently Asked Questions of a Whale Watcher
By: Lili Wilson As a naturalist on a whale watching vessel, I spend serious quality time with whales, and almost as much time answering questions about whales. These charismatic megafauna …
Dive In! How writing about the ocean changed my life.
By Ann Eriksson As an author and biologist, I’ve written adult novels about whales and ocean contaminants, mites living high in the canopy of old-growth forests, coyotes in the Canadian …
Canadian Conservation Corps: How It Evolved My Ocean Literacy
The last four months have been a whirlwind of an adventure that took me to Toronto, Haliburton, Quebec City, Tadoussac, and Ottawa. It all happened through the Canadian Conservation Corps …
Tag! You’re It!, the Maritimes’ first conservation in a can
The Ocean Tracking Network (OTN) is a global aquatic research, data management and partnership platform headquartered at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It tracks more than 160 aquatic species …
2018 National Dialogue: Youth Empowering Youth
By: Rachael Bell-Irving Plastic is everywhere in our oceans and it’s going to take a deep, transformational change in humanity’s consciousness and activities regarding the oceans to ensure healthy, sustainable …
Plog for the Sea by Back to the Sea Society
Have you heard of plogging? It’s a term that stands for picking up litter while jogging and it’s sweeping the globe! This fall, the Back to the Sea Society decided …
Dive into Ocean School!
By: Lucija Prelovec Growing up in the Greater Toronto Area, I found that no one really understood the ocean. They seemed surprised to hear Canada is an ocean nation or …