What You Can Do To Help
There are 58 number of species at risk in the Georgian Bay Area there are several things that you are able to do to help
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Know the species at risk, endangered and species of concern
- Georgian Bay Biosphere: Species at Risk
- Ontario Turtle Conservation Centre
- Georgian Bay Land Trust: Native Species at Risk
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Understand their habitats and how you can protect them
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Plant native species
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Contact a conservation officer
- Injured Turtle Hotline 705-741-5000
- Government of Ontario: Species at Risk contact information
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Look into a citizen science monitoring program to record your sighting
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Join seminars and educational events to learn about
The Georgian Bay Biosphere has a very helpful and interactive webpage dedicated to the Species at Risk in Georgian Bay Biosphere. One of the features is to join the Georgian Bay Biosphere iNaturalist to record observations of species at risk.
To learn more about the species at risk in Ontario and Canada check out these informational websites
- Government of Ontario: Species at Risk in Ontario
- Government of Canada: Species at Risk
- Nature Conservancy Canada: Species at Risk 101
- Government of Canada: Tips to help protect species at risk
What GBA has done
- GBA Responds to Proposal from Macey Bay Developer to Destroy Species at Risk Habitat [webpage]
- GBA response to MECP on ER-posting (Oct 12 2019): Letter to MECP
- Ontario Bank Swallow Project [webpage]
Additional articles/ webpages
- GBB “Endangered Species on the Rise 2018” [article]
- GBB “Georgian Bay Region Selected for Coastal Conservation Project 2019” [article]
- GBB “Local Bats a Concern for New Research 2017” [article]
- GBB Citizen Science Projects
- GBB State of the Bay: Species at Risk
- Government of Canada: Government of Canada conserving species at risk habitat in the Georgian Bay Biosphere Mnidoo Gamii, in Ontario
- Government of Canada: Restoring shoreline habitat in Georgian Bay
- UNESCO: Georgian Bay Biosphere Reserve, Canada