The Ontario Nature Spring Meeting will be held on Saturday April 14, 2012 WHERE: at the Ken Reid Conservation Office Site, 277 Kenrei Road, Kawartha Lakes, Ontario HOSTED by Friends of the Osprey. The day will include a trip out to see the osprey nesting platforms and hopefully find the female osprey who has the [...]
A review of the new PFN publication ‘Nature in the Kawarthas’ was published in the EMC Almonte/Carleton Place (a community paper that appears throughout Eastern Ontario). Nature in the Kawarthas is available at most bookstores by order or online at www.dundurn.com or www.amazon.ca at $32.99 or less. For complete review go to EMC Almonte/Carleton Place
A book launch and signing for Nature in the Kawarthas will take place at Lockside Trading in Young’s Point sometime in late May or June. Lockside have regular events during the cottage season and are looking forward to hosting us as they sold many copies of Kawartha Nature which the PFN published in 1992. It [...]
All are welcome to join us Wednesday, April 11th at 7:30pm, in the Auditorium of the Peterborough Public Library. Kelly Boadway spent 4 summers on a small, remote island in the High Arctic of Nunavut studying Arctic tern breeding biology and diet. She will be telling us about her research, complete with anecdotes about hosting [...]
All are welcome to join us Wednesday, March 14th at 7:30pm, in the Auditorium of the Peterborough Public Library. Ken Towle will give us an introduction to the ecosystems and wildlife of tropical Mexico, including a discussion of traditional uses, conservation concerns such as tourism, and some of the conservation and restoration work that has [...]
All are welcome to join us Wednesday, February 8th at 7:30pm, in the Auditorium of the Peterborough Public Library. Kaitlin Breton-Honeyman and Jennie Knopp, PhD candidates at Trent University, have been studying beluga and arctic char ecology in the Canadian Arctic using a mixed methods approach. This approach draws on both biological science and Indigenous knowledge [...]
Have you traveled somewhere recently? Taken any greats photos that you would like to share with PFN members? Come on out to our annual slide show by PFN members!
A research biologist with the Ministry of Natural Resources, Mark will discuss a variety of research and restoration projects. First he will talk about opportunities for establishing native ecosystems back onto pit and quarry sites after aggregate extraction is finished. He has also been involved with the restoration of Wainfleet Bog and will talk about [...]
This half day outing, led by Martin Parker, will focus on the waterfowl which overwinter on the open waters of the Otonabee River and Little Lake during the winter months. The variety and number of birds depends on the amount of open water and ice. The outing will also visit the bird feeding stations operated [...]
September 25, 2011 A special opportunity that will include a tour of the Animal Care facilities including the veterinary clinic and animal holding area. The trip will start from the main entrance of the Toronto Zoo at 10:00 a.m. For those wishing to car pool meet at Tim Horton’s in the Sobey’s Plaza on Landsdowne Street Westat [...]
