.@citnatchallenge 🌱makes taking part easy! 🐸 Find plants & wildlife. Even in the city nature is all around us! 🐸Take a photo or record sounds with iNaturalist 🐸Share observations City of Peterborough: inaturalist.ca/projects/city-… Ecology Park this Fri/Sat: We’ll get you started!

“These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, & wild herbs.” Chekov #ptbo #earthweek

Today’s City of Peterborough City Nature Challenge highlights: 🦋kiddos having fun outside 🦋nature themed suger cookies 🦋the Meade creek walk (🙏 Meredith!) 🦋adding spring flowers to iNaturalist! Come see us in Ecology Park, 11 am tomorrow. Tree walk at 11:30 am ☔️ 🐸

Family fun, learning about citizen science using iNaturalist, native trees with Vern Bastable, build a bug, and see what lives under the water in Meade Creek with Trent University students. Our next walk with Drew Monkman starts at 1 pm. At the Ecology Park until 3 today!

Day 3 of 4: City Nature Challenge 2024. Celebrating urban biodiversity in a BIG way, the City of Peterborough is now #14 of 40 participating Canadian cities & and we have surpassed our 2023 results 🙌🌱🇨🇦 Way to go, #Ptbo 💚

🙌 City Nature Challenge rankings across 🇨🇦 We have until midnight tonight & City of Peterborough is close to making it into the top 10 participating cities in Canada 🍁 Updates have us: 🌱 11’th for # of observers 🌱 12’th for # species 🌱 14’th for # observations Keep going #Ptbo!

Final results for the City Nature Challenge will be posted May 6th! Photos & sound recordings taken over the 4 days of the challenge can be uploaded until 9 am May 6. Species identification on iNaturalist is ongoing. Thanks to everyone involved & if you can help with IDs, 🙏

Help keep your bike safe 🚲🚲🚲 We've partnered with Peterborough Police and Peterborough Bicycle Advisory Committee on a new bike registration system. Register with 529 Garage today at project529.com/garage/cityofp… #BikeRegistry #ActiveTransportation

Beyond Talk, Towards Action! There’s still lots of time to register for this national annual Climate Caucus conference that brings together local elected leaders from coast to coast 🇨🇦 Join this essential conversation - it’s open to all - about practical, local solutions 🌿 ⬇️

DYK that you can sign up for our e-newsletter to keep up-to-date on all things Kawartha Land Trust? 🌲Sign up to receive updates on KLT's conservation efforts & your impact, nature connection events & more! ow.ly/mbtF50RC4X1 📸Roscarrock CEA (Photo: KLT)

This Friday is the Climate Caucus Summit. We are thrilled to have John Vaillant author of Fire Weather as keynote. A timely presentation for those leading local governments on climate action. Register: buff.ly/49vlqM0 & join us for the full program! fortmcmurraytoday.com/news/wildfire-…

Rain gardens help reduce flooding, filter stormwater & attract pollinators 💧🌸🐝 ⁠ We're offering up to $1,000 for the installation of a rain garden as well as help with design from GreenUP. Open to residents, local organizations⁠ & businesses. peterborough.ca/raingarden

High cuteness factor on a Friday night!

This Thursday! Come and connect with your community of local elected leaders pushing for climate action across Canada 💚 If there are any specific topics you want to bring to the call, please email [email protected].

It was a privilege to work with citizens on advisory committees to council. Carrying community knowledge forward to the council table is integral to good governance & better outcomes. Removing councillors dilutes democracy, trust & ties to local expertise. kawarthanow.com/2024/10/24/pet…

Hope everyone is having some Halloween fun tonight 👻 Shout out to Indian River Acres for their awesomeness in growing all kinds of veggies - and pumpkins perfect for carving- using sustainable agricultural practices. Happy Halloween! 🎃 🎃

Let us pause to remember the ones that have sacrificed their lives for our country. Let us honour those who have served and continue to serve.

I am recruiting two funded graduate students (1 MS, 1 PhD) to join the lab and the Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences program at Oregon State University! If you are into small mammals and population ecology then check this out. Please share/repost widely!

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