From easy-to-use apps designed as tools for your citizen science projects to picturesque wallpaper images for your computer, CanadianWildlifeFederation.ca offers a variety of useful downloads for your PC and mobile devices.
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All About Freshwater Turtles With David Seburn
2025-11-24
David Seburn is a Turtle Specialist with the Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF). When it comes to amphibian and reptile conservation, David Seburn is the “turtle” package! Working in this field for more than 20 years, he has written status reports, recovery strategies and more than a dozen scientific papers on amphibians and reptiles, radio-tracked turtles through swamps, and spoken to hundreds of people about turtle conservation. Join David to learn more about Canada’s at-risk freshwater turtle species, discover what CWF is doing to conserve turtles, and learn how you can help our reptilian friends!
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American Eel Infographic
2025-11-24
How Industry-led Endangered Species Management is FAILING the American Eel in Ontario
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Are you sure you want a pet Red-eared Slider?
2025-11-24
Please don’t release unwanted pet sliders into the wild. A slider can spread disease to native wildlife and may not survive in the wild. If you see a turtle in the wild that may not be native, please report it to iNaturalist Canada (inaturalist.ca) to get the species identified. Please don’t remove native species from the wild.
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BEST PRACTICES TO HELP CONSERVE THE AMERICAN EEL
2025-11-24
You’ve Got an Eel on Your Reel – NOW WHAT?!
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Boscar Lake Creek Culvert Removal
2025-11-24
Boscar Lake Creek connects Bosk Lake and Cruiser Lake in the Horsefly River watershed, Cariboo Chilcotin Region, British Columbia. The creek is known to support a range of fish species including Kokanee, Coho Salmon, Largescale Sucker, Longnose Sucker, Mountain Whitefish, Northern Pikeminnow, Peamouth Chub, Rainbow Trout and Redside Shiner.
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Community Science in Action: iNaturalist Case Study with Adopt-A-Pond
2025-11-24
Join the Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) for an insightful webinar that showcases how iNaturalist can be a powerful tool for citizen science programs. This session will highlight the Adopt-A-Pond (AAP) program by the Toronto Zoo as a case study, demonstrating the practical application of iNaturalist in conservation efforts. During this webinar we will guide you through the essential features of iNaturalist, using real-world examples from the Adopt-A-Pond program. You'll learn how iNaturalist supports environmental monitoring, enhances data collection, and contributes to research and conservation. Whether you're a seasoned user or new to the platform, this webinar will provide valuable insights and tips for using the iNaturalist app and website effectively. Don’t miss this opportunity to see how iNaturalist can elevate your citizen science initiatives!
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Fishing Hooks Can Hurt or Kill Turtles
2025-11-24
Ontario’s turtles are in decline and need all the help they can get!
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Freshwater Fish With Nicolas Lapointe
2025-11-24
Nicolas Lapointe works at the Canadian Wildlife Federation as the Senior Conservation Biologist – Freshwater Ecology. Originally from Ottawa, he completed his doctorate at Virginia Tech before returning home to work in Conservation. Nicolas studies aquatic habitat, restoration and invasive species while working to protect freshwater fisheries, biodiversity and species at risk. He spends his free time fishing, hunting, and foraging in Ottawa’s hinterland. Join Nick to learn more about Canada’s migratory fish species and discover what CWF is doing to address barriers and restore freshwater connectivity!
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How To Build a Turtle Nesting Site
2025-11-24
Sometimes turtles nest in problem areas like gardens, driveways or compost piles. To encourage turtles to nest elsewhere, or to create nesting habitat if it is lacking, consider building a nesting site. Keep in mind that turtles will often return to sites where they have nested before, so it may take a few seasons before a new site is used. We also recommend having nest protectors ready to protect any nests laid.
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How to Take Identifiable Photos of Fish
2025-11-24
Taking photos of wildlife can be challenging. It is not essential to photograph every point on this diagram to get an identifiable observation. Just try your best! When photographing fish, minimize air exposure by taking an underwater photo whenever possible, allowing them to breathe freely. If taking a picture outside the water, keep the fish near the water and lift it briefly for the photo, limiting air exposure to 10 seconds or less. Be sure to follow local fishing guidelines and regulations.
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iNaturalist CSI: Turtles
2025-11-24
Join the Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) for a webinar in our Canadian Species Identification Webinar Series, demonstrating how to photograph and identify turtles using iNaturalist Canada, with CWF’s very own turtle expert David Seburn in English and CWF’s Annie Belair in French. Freshwater turtles are in decline throughout Canada. CWF’s HelpTheTurtles.ca initiative is working to change this but we need your help! Knowing where turtles are found is an important first step to fixing the problem. Tallying everyone's observations will help us target which roads we need to look at for mitigation measures and which wetlands we need to keep an eye on. By uploading your turtle sightings to iNaturalist.ca, you can directly contribute to turtle conservation. iNaturalist has become one of the world’s most popular nature apps and the Canadian Wildlife Federation has led the charge in bringing it to the forefront of Canadian citizen science. CWF is carrying out our own surveys on roads and in wetlands for at-risk turtles and working with Scales Nature Park, but we can't be everywhere. Your information is critical so we can work with municipalities and transport agencies to reduce the risks to turtles. Learn how to identify turtle species and take identifiable photos of turtles to help us, help them! English Webinar Date: May 24, 2022, 12:00-1:00 ET French Webinar Date: May 26, 2022, 12:00-1:00 ET
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Invasive Species: Something Fishy in Canada’s Lakes & Rivers
2025-11-24
Grades 2-9, Science, Animals, Environmental Stewardship Join the Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) and the Centre for Global Education as we investigate what's happening in Canadian rivers and oceans. Our conversation will cover the roles of different species, how invasive species impacts local ecology, and what we can do to better support at-risk habitats.
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Learning and Engagement Dialogue: Cumulative Effects under the Fisheries Act
2025-11-24
This 1:00 p.m. ET event is hosted by Aquatic Habitat Canada, a national network supporting aquatic habitat protection and restoration. This webinar series is based on the consultation topics of the current Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s Fish and Fish Habitat Protection Program (FFHPP) development process. For this first event, we will be hosting expert speakers from multiple sectors to present their involvement and perspectives on cumulative effects. The webinar will also include an open panel discussion and a Q&A period. This outreach event is intended to be informative and educational, while allowing public engagement. We welcome all perspectives and experiences to the event and hope to host productive discussions for those planning to make submissions to the FFHPP consultation process.
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Learning and Engagement Dialogue: Financing Aquatic Habitat Restoration Initiatives in Canada
2025-11-24
Wednesday, July 28, 2021, 2:00-4:00 PM, ET For this event, we will be hosting expert speakers from multiple sectors to present key challenges, opportunities and issues related to funding aquatic habitat restoration. The webinar will also include an open panel discussion and a Q&A period. This outreach event is intended to be informative and educational, while allowing public engagement. We welcome all perspectives and experiences to the event and hope to host productive discussions regarding options for financing future aquatic habitat restoration initiatives.
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Learning and Engagement Dialogue: Indigenous Partnerships in Aquatic Habitat Management and Restoration
2025-11-24
This event is hosted by Aquatic Habitat Canada (AHC), a national network supporting aquatic habitat protection and restoration. For this event, we have the pleasure of hosting expert speakers from multiple sectors to present their knowledge on the topic, Indigenous Perspectives in Aquatic Habitat Management and Restoration, and illustrate examples of Indigenous involvement and relationship-building to ensure impactful outcomes in their work. Presentations will highlight Indigenous-led and co-led initiatives and explore how Indigenous values are incorporated in aquatic habitat science. The webinar will also include an open panel discussion and a Q&A period. Our panel speakers include: • Dr. Catherine Febria (Healthy Headwaters Lab) • Jennifer Sylliboy (Unama'ki Institute of Natural Resources) • Kathleen Ryan (Bruce Power) This outreach event is part of AHC’s Learning & Engagement Dialogue webinar series, and is intended to be informative and educational, while allowing for public engagement. We welcome all perspectives and experiences at the event and hope to host a learning forum for our community. We look forward to seeing you there.
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Let's Talk Turtles
2025-11-24
How to help Canada’s At Risk Turtle Populations: Turtles are a vital part of healthy ecosystems. Although they have been around for millions of years, today, all eight of Canada’s freshwater turtles have been designated as Species at Risk. This webinar will discuss why turtles are in danger, how you can make a difference, and how turtles are culturally significant to Indigenous Peoples of North America.
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Microbial community changes across the Mississippi River
2025-11-24
Dr. Cameron Thrash returns to the OAR Northwest Education webinar this season to discuss microbial community composition changes across river tributaries, and its effects on the Mississippi River and greater communities. Early findings are derived from wet samples taken by last year’s expedition crew during Adventure: Mississippi River 2014.
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Reduce Plastic in Your Home Checklist
2025-11-24
How can you reduce your plastic footprint in your home? Take it one room at a time
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STOP Habitat Loss NOW! Infographic
2025-11-24
EACH YEAR THOUSANDS OF SMALL PROJECTS ACROSS CANADA DESTROY AQUATIC HABITAT AND KILL FISH AND OTHER WILDLIFE
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The Canadian Aquatic Barriers Database
2025-11-24
June 14, 2021, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. ET. A Tool to Support Fish Passage and Connectivity Work in Canada. Please join the Canadian Wildlife Federation as we introduce to you the Canadian Aquatic Barriers Database (CABD) — an open web tool to identify, explore and map potential barriers to aquatic connectivity. You will learn how the CABD will support policy and reporting, restoration planning and prioritization, infrastructure management, research and education and outreach.
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The Canadian Aquatic Barriers Database: an improved tool to support fish habitat connectivity in Canada
2025-11-24
The Canadian Aquatic Barriers Database (CABD) is a standardized, curated, central, and open repository for barrier and connectivity data in Canada. The CABD is an important tool to support work in a variety of fields and sectors related to freshwater connectivity and aquatic barriers. The vision for the CABD is all of Canada’s barrier and connectivity information in one place – easily and openly accessible! CWF is proud to announce new updates to the CABD, adding even more aquatic barrier information and providing new tools to allow Canadians across the country to help us fill information gaps. With the new release, in addition to dams, waterfalls, and fishways, the CABD now includes information on stream crossings nationally, which affords us a more complete picture of the effect these structures are having on fish and fish habitat. We’re also introducing a feature that allows anyone to click on a barrier in CABD webtool and provide us with information updates based on their local knowledge, thereby helping the CABD improve over time and fill data gaps.
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Turtle Talks Webinar
2025-11-24
April 20, 2021, 12:00-1:00 p.m. ET Who doesn’t love turtles?! They’re cute, they’re interesting and they come in so many shapes and size. They’re also one of the most endangered groups of species in Canada. Join us for a webinar all about turtles, and discover what the Canadian Wildlife Federation is doing to help them and what you can do to help, too!
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Water We Without Oceans?
2025-11-24
June 8, 2021, at 1:00 pm ET /10:00 am PT Join us for a free, educational webinar as we explore our connection to the ocean. Our blue planet is powered by a water cycle that sustains life. Together we’ll dive deep into this cycle to discover how we are all connected to the ocean through our local watersheds.
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We're Halfway There!
2025-11-24
Our third Adventure Mississippi webinar finds the OAR Northwest team in St. Louis, Missouri after six weeks on the Mississippi River. The Adobe Connect webinar, hosted by CWF Education Manager Randy McLeod, is a great opportunity for students and teachers to connect with the crew and learn more about the canoeing and rowing expedition. Download related lesson plans here.
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What does the Mississippi look like?
2025-11-24
What does the Mississippi look like? Exploring the river from top to bottom. Author and Adventurer, Jordan Hanssen, will take students on a journey beyond the part of the Mississippi most familiar with students, showing them the diversity of its 2,350 miles. From a trickle at its headwaters to its mighty mouth bringing in the story of the river and how it appears in almost everything they will study in the classroom and labs.<strong><br>Nov.2, 2015<br>1pm</strong>
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What to do if You Hook a Turtle in B.C.
2025-11-24
British Columbia’s turtles are in decline and need all the help they can get!
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What’s the Big Eel?
2025-11-24
June 7, 2022, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. ET. Join CWF’s Senior Conservation Freshwater Ecology Biologist Nicholas Lapointe and Jennifer Sylliboy, Program Manager Unama’ki Institute of Natural Resources, as they discuss the biological and cultural history of the American Eel. Jennifer will present on American Eel in the Bras d’Or Lake, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia and the relationship between Kat (eel) and the Mi’kmaq people. The population of American Eel has declined in the Bras d’Or Lakes over the past 20 to 30 years. While many Mi’kmaw harvesters feel the population is still good and has seen its ups and downs, its future is uncertain. Mi’kmaq people have traditionally harvested adult eel for food and cultural purposes for thousands of years. The value of eels to Mi’kmaq culture is difficult to quantify. The value is not driven by dollars, landings, or economic potential. The value is in the life, culture, health, and spirituality they sustain. With population declines globally, we need to ask ourselves what would our lives be like without the American Eel? And what can or are we doing to ensure that doesn’t happen. Nick will take us through the American Eel’s unique and fascinating life history and their conservation crisis in Canada. Sadly, this life history places them at risk from human activities and has contributed to their global decline. Alarms were first raised in the early 1990s about their decline in Canada due primarily to hydropower dams. But little has changed to address this threat. The federal Fisheries Act and Species at Risk Act should both protect the species, along with provincial legislation, but so far regulators have taken little action. We will explain what has been done to date, what has stalled, and what can be done to change the situation and help American Eel recover.
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Wild About Turtles Poster
2025-11-24
Turtles have been around for over 200 million years and look nearly the same today as they did then. They are unique creatures - the only living vertebrates with a bony shell which is their main line of defense against predators.Currently, twelve turtle species live in Canada or off of our coasts. Eight are found inland, in wetland areas and the remaining four are at sea. In the past an additional species, the Pacific pond turtle, lived in British Columbia but is now Extirpated and can no longer be found in Canada.
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