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On New Year's Day 35 years ago, Larry Weber was out walking when a flock of goldfinches flew over.That's unusual, Weber thought. He made a note of it -- and he's been making similar notes for the 13,000 days since then.That makes Weber a phe-nol-o-gist -- a person who watches and records bird migrations, insect hatches, plant blooms and other events in nature.

Stephen Monet, Greater Sudbury manager of environmental initiatives, said the city still has a huge area that has not been regreened by liming the soil and planting trees and shrubs

Greater Sudbury has finalized its biodiversity plan for increasing the variety and number of plant and animal species in its landscape.The plan, entitled Living Landscape: A Biodiversity Action Plan for Greater Sudbury, was released Dec. 23 by city staff after a series of public and stakeholder consultations from June to August, 2009.

Biodiversity conservation provides substantial benefits to meet immediate human needs, such as those for clean, consistent water flows; protection from floods and storms; and a stable climate.

Going, going, gone.Extinction is a threat for a third of the 47,667 species assessed by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, the most comprehensive information source on the status of the world's plant and animal species.

The city's ecology got a boost Oct. 30 from both Vale Inco and Xstrata Nickel.The mining companies are contributing a total of $2.25 million over the next five years to increasing biodiversity in the Greater Sudbury area, both on their land and in other parts of the city.
Biodiversity refers to increasing the amount and variety of species located in a given area.

Whitewater Lake is located in Rayside, Snider and Creighton townships, near the town of Azilda. Whitewater Lake is 949.1 hectares in size and has a shoreline perimeter of 29.5 kilometres. The maximum depth of Whitewater Lake is 11 metres.

There's a little-known, but highly successful federal program in Canada that encourages Canadians to gift ecologically sensitive lands to eligible environmental charities that promise to take care of them in perpetuity.

World Environment Day (WED) was established by the UN General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. Commemorated yearly on 5 June, WED is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action.

The wildlife of many Ontarians' childhoods -- such as snapping turtles and chimney swifts -- are disappearing from the province at a startling rate, Ontario Nature says.
For the first time, a dragonfly species -- one that used to be found on four southern Ontario rivers, including the Humber and Credit -- has made it onto the province's official at-risk list.

Anthropogenic Biomes (Anthromes) offer a new way to understand our living planet by describing the way humans have reshaped its ecological patterns and processes. This guide is based on a system of 21 Anthrome classes divided into 6 broad groups,

Greater Sudbury Ecology Map is a full colour large-format map showing a visual snap-shot of the environmental health of our region

To connect people who are interested in biosphere reserve research ranging from work done ON the biosphere reserve concept and its implementatio