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  • Act

    2025-11-24

    Join the Canadian Wildlife Federation in making the conservation movement mainstream by making a difference in your own community — because water’s worth it!

  • A Garden Stream

    2025-11-24

    Cascading water enhances a garden and attracts a larger variety of birds. The sound of a gurgling stream is an intoxicating draw to both people and wildlife. It enhances relaxation and helps filter out background noises that invade our lives.

  • Bravo! You’ve taken the Water Challenge.

    2025-11-24

    Bravo! You’ve taken the Water Challenge.

  • Captain

    2025-11-24

    What does your love of boating have to do with Canada’s water? Plenty.

  • Car Buff

    2025-11-24

    What does the prized possession sitting in your driveway have to do with Canada’s water? Plenty.

  • Cottager

    2025-11-24

    What does your cottage have to do with the state of Canada’s water? Plenty.

  • DIY Projects and Fact Sheets: Coasts & Oceans

    2025-11-24

    Are you just aching to know how to help make a difference for wildlife? The Canadian Wildlife Federation has lots of easy, fun projects and activities that you can take on to help your wild neighbours have a bright future.

  • Enter the Video Contest

    2025-11-24

    Water’s Worth It! Video Challenge

  • Fix It Fanatic

    2025-11-24

    What does fixing up your house have to do with Canada’s water? Plenty.

  • Friend or Foe? Caterpillars

    2025-11-24

    We tend to give a lot of focus to butterflies and moths once they’ve become these beautiful-winged creatures. But what about when they are caterpillars?

  • Help Aquatic Species at Home

    2025-11-24

    You can improve habitat for aquatic species in your area by taking on one of these Hinterland Who’s Who projects:

  • How to care for injured turtle

    2025-11-24

    TURTLE S.H.E.L.L. runs a rehab centre for injured turtles. Here's what they recommend you do.

  • Rivers, Lakes, and Streams

    2025-11-24

    Think of rivers, lakes, and streams, as the blood vessels of the Earth. They carry nutrients from one part of the planet to another; in doing this they wash out toxins and return life-giving oxygen into the system.

  • Rules for Water’s Worth It! Video Contest

    2025-11-24

    Rules for Water’s Worth It! Video Contest

  • Rules for Water’s Worth It! Video Contest

    2025-11-24

    Rules for Water’s Worth It! Video Contest

  • Shoreline Cleanup

    2025-11-24

    From plastic straws to coffee lids, everything we throw away ends up somewhere. If it doesn’t make it to a landfill, it will find its way to waterways like rivers, lakes and oceans. It really doesn’t belong there – animals can mistake that junk for food and they can get tangled up in it too. Spend some time this June making a body of water near you a cleaner environment for the animals that live there with your own shoreline cleanup.

  • Take the Water Challenge

    2025-11-24

    So you’re ready to take the Water Challenge! Great!

  • The Water Challenge

    2025-11-24

    What does your spring cleaning have to do with Canada’s water? Plenty.

  • The Water Challenge

    2025-11-24

    What does travelling have to do with Canada’s water? Plenty.

  • The Water Challenge

    2025-11-24

    What does your art have to do with Canada’s water? Plenty.

  • The Water Challenge

    2025-11-24

    What does being a pet owner have to do with Canada’s water? Plenty.

  • The Water Challenge

    2025-11-24

    What does your spring cleaning have to do with Canada’s water? Plenty.

  • The Water Challenge

    2025-11-24

    What does your green thumb have to do with Canada’s water? Plenty.

  • The Water Challenge

    2025-11-24

    What does your beauty routine have to do with Canada’s water? Plenty.

  • The Water Challenge

    2025-11-24

    What does your beauty routine have to do with Canada’s water? Plenty.

  • Turn the Tide on Water Pollution

    2025-11-24

    From coast to coast to coast, it’s easy to do your part at home, work or school to protect Canada’s water. You don’t need to uproot your life to make a difference; small changes have a big impact.

  • Vote for your favourite Water’s Worth It! Video!

    2025-11-24

    The clock is ticking! You’ve only got one week left to vote for your favourite Water’s Worth It! Video.

  • Vote Submitted

    2025-11-24

  • Water News

    2025-11-24

    Get all of CWF's water-related and other news digitally delivered directly to you! You'll save time, energy and money by subscribing to CWF's free RSS newsfeeds.

  • Water’s Worth It! Video Contest

    2025-11-24

    The Canadian Wildlife Federation is celebrating Rivers to Oceans Week in 2011 by launching the new Water’s Worth It! video contest. Send us a one-minute video telling us what’s so special about your local body of water and why it’s worth conserving!

  • Winner of the Water’s Worth It! Video Contest

    2025-10-29

    Voting wrapped up last week in our Water’s Worth It! video contest, and the results are in. We’re excited to announce that Wanda Gibson of Farrellton, Quebec, is the grand prize winner of this year’s contest. It was close, but her video about the Gatineau River garnered the most votes in our online voting.

  • At-Home Projects & Fact Sheets

    2025-11-24

    See what you can do at home for wildlife.

  • Building a Pond with Wildlife in Mind

    2025-11-24

    13 Dos and Don’ts to Creating a Pond That Animals Will Benefit From

  • DIY Projects and Fact Sheets: Coasts & Oceans

    2025-11-24

    Are you just aching to know how to help make a difference for wildlife? The Canadian Wildlife Federation has lots of easy, fun projects and activities that you can take on to help your wild neighbours have a bright future.

  • DIY Projects and Fact Sheets: Connecting With Nature

    2025-11-24

    Are you just aching to know how to help make a difference for wildlife? The Canadian Wildlife Federation has lots of easy, fun projects and activities that you can take on to help your wild neighbours have a bright future.

  • DIY Projects and Fact Sheets: Education & Leadership

    2025-11-24

    Are you just aching to know how to help make a difference for wildlife? The Canadian Wildlife Federation has lots of easy, fun projects and activities that you can take on to help your wild neighbours have a bright future.

  • DIY Projects and Fact Sheets: Endangered Species & Biodiversity

    2025-11-24

    Are you just aching to know how to help make a difference for wildlife? The Canadian Wildlife Federation has lots of easy, fun projects and activities that you can take on to help your wild neighbours have a bright future.

  • DIY Projects and Fact Sheets: Fields & Forests

    2025-11-24

    Are you just aching to know how to help make a difference for wildlife? The Canadian Wildlife Federation has lots of easy, fun projects and activities that you can take on to help your wild neighbours have a bright future.

  • DIY Projects and Fact Sheets: Lakes & Rivers

    2025-11-24

    Are you just aching to know how to help make a difference for wildlife? The Canadian Wildlife Federation has lots of easy, fun projects and activities that you can take on to help your wild neighbours have a bright future.

  • Friend or Foe? Caterpillars

    2025-11-24

    We tend to give a lot of focus to butterflies and moths once they’ve become these beautiful-winged creatures. But what about when they are caterpillars?

  • Habitat Projects

    2025-11-24

    Habitat Projects

  • How can you nurture the birds in your backyard as the temperature dips?

    2025-11-24

    Make no mistake. Stocking up on birdseed and stocking your feeder on a regular basis is an incredibly helpful way to support the birds in your backyard through the fall and winter. They need nutrients as they molt and migrate. That said, you can also supply other beneficial nutrients by planting fruit producing shrubs that’ll keep your favourite feathered friends satiated. Here are five shrubs you might consider adding to your property!

  • Outside Projects

    2025-11-24

    Experience nature and see wildlife with these fun "how-to" activities.

  • Taking Care of Backyard Birds in Winter

    2025-11-24

    Being cooped up inside isn’t good for the spirit. So, when the weekend rolls around, why not get out there and do some good for the birds in your backyard? You don’t have to be out there for long. Just an hour a week (and maybe even less!) can do a world of wonders. Your feathered friends will thank you!