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2 | Timestamp | Lead organization/agency | Partner organizations/agencies | Name of Conservation Program | Suite of Species | Species of Birds | Species of Mammals | Species of Reptiles | Species of Amphibians | Species of Fish/Mollusks | Species of Insects | Species of Plants/Lichen | Habitat Type | Program length/timeline (# of years/ongoing since) | Primary location/focus area | Secondary location/focus area | Approaches/Strategies | Description of program details (describe specific actions for each approach/strategy) | Monitoring tools (e.g. MOTUS tags, traps, notching, banding, etc.) | Infrastructure (e.g. centers, incubators, towers, etc.) | Any other tools/techniques used | ||||||
3 | 11/20/2020 12:53:11 | Ministry of Natural Resouces, Ministry of Conservation and Parks | Ontario Soil and Crop, local partners | used to hte Speies at Risk Financial Incentive Program until 2019 | Insects | Barn Swallow, Bobolink, Eastern Meadowlark | Yellow Banded Bumble Bee, pollinators - dont know range of the yellow banded bee | Wetlands, Shorelines/Coast, pollinator habitat | was inplace about 9 years - cancelled by Ontario government recently | Ontario | Education, Public Outreach, Stewardship | cost-share to farmers | |||||||||||||||
4 | 11/20/2020 13:25:51 | Rideau Waterway Land Trust | EcoTec | Gray Ratsnake Habitat Construction and Monitoring | Reptiles | Gray Ratsnake | 4 years (2018-2021) | Rideau watershed | Inventory/ monitoring/ mapping, Mitigation and Restoration | Installed nestboxes to prevent egg predation. These nestboxes will be monitored to verify if snakes are using them. | None | Nestboxes | Not that I know of. | ||||||||||||||
5 | 11/23/2020 8:29:13 | National Tree Seed Centre, Canadian Forest Service | Forest Gene Conservation Association (FGCA) | Seed collection and banking of Canada's woody plant species, also FGCA focuses on butternut archiving and recovery | Plants/Lichens | American Ginseng, Black Ash, Butternut, Dwarf Hackberry, Uncommon tree and shrub species in this region might also include red spruce, southern pockets of black spruce, pitch pine, associated valuable forest species like ginseng or goldenseal, culturally important species to first nations, those with widespread restoration and reclamation potential (willows, poplar, alder, buffaloberry, birch, conifers). The NTSC has also been studying and backing up rare herbaceous species and would not be opposed to exploring conservation of orchids or other life forms if needed. | 1967 | National mandate, facilities based in Fredericton, NB | Areas in Canada with high plant conservation needs, especially species threatened with invasive pests | Research, Inventory/ monitoring/ mapping, Education, Public Outreach, Population Recovery, Genomic research interests within the CFS, long-term ex situ storage facilities to bridge time between risk and action | At NTSC, our collection was originally initiated to research and deploy improved forest regeneration materials for forestry. Now that industry is well developed and has expanded through academic labs/NSERC funding, the focus has shifted to conservation and restoration research, genomics, population viability, and upholding international treaties about domestic ex situ germplasm availability to further research and applied uses. We have over 120 species and 20,000 seed collections known to collection date, GPS points and year available now, and intentions to increase geographic and genetically unique population representation in the next 10 years. We do this through planning our own collection trips, collaborations with local organizations with strong plant conservation and recovery mandates, or enlist contracts to collect or acquire clean seed through funding transfers where collections meet our research standards. We are expanding to offer more virtual training in 2021 and beyond, and plan to better use our legacy data combined with local TEK and scientific knowledge to improve local restoration outcomes with source-identified seed supply. We're actively seeking engaged organizations who want to partner and have need of seed banking services as a proven conservation tool. | Natural tree and shrub seed production is extremely variable so we rely on locally trained seed collectors and nurseries to inform us of potential collectable crops in good seed years. We've begun using iNaturalist as a platform through our partners as a means to target specific species and photos of seed from citizen scientists, and always, traditional media outreach in years the public notices, i.e. the 2019 black ash seed crop across its range. Internally, we use Tableau, Access and GIS to monitor our own dynamic gaps as collections are drawn down, or to locate new areas a species may be confirmed occurring in the wild. | Our primary conservation tools for seeds and DNA tissues are -20C freezers capable of holding approximately 35,000 collections, and -196C cryogenic storage containers capable of holding ~60,000 excised butternut embryos or hundreds of thousands of smaller seeded-species. We clean most of our seed, so have a wide variety of small seed processing units (tumbler, dewinger, aspirator, sieves, wet depulping, drying cabinets, etc). We also maintain a dozen Conviron germination cabinets for regular and novel germination testing, growth chambers, greenhouses and can collaborate with specialized researchers in other CFS or academic institutions interested in particular species. All data gathered at NTSC is logged in our PostGres database. We can also work with collaborators to purchase seed collection or processing equipment, offer shipping accounts for material to be sent quickly to NTSC, and training support. | We specialize in non-destructive seed testing, particular for Species at Risk. This has enabled us to utilize and expand our moisture activity monitoring equipment, and during germination testing, we routinely transplant successful seedlings out to the greenhouse to be utilized by recovery programs. We are hoping to expand into more paired DNA sampling during seed collection (twigs, leaves, roots, etc) and a specialized drying room to maintain this material often sought by geneticists/researchers as well. | |||||||||||||
6 | 11/23/2020 9:33:38 | Watersheds Canada | All | Love your Lake, Natural Edge, Fish Habitat Programs | Habitats (e.g. lakes, wetlands, etc.) | Shorelines/Coast, Lakes | 2013 | Ontario Wide- Lake focused regions and developed areas | National | Inventory/ monitoring/ mapping, Education, Public Outreach, Stewardship | Individual property reports created for landowners, data sheets collected for each property on a lake inventoried | Observation, Field visits using standardized protocols | Only digital infrastructure | ||||||||||||||
7 | 11/23/2020 11:27:41 | Scales Nature Park | Georgian Bay Turtle Hospital, Canadian Wildlife Federation, Laurentian University, The Land Between, Georgian Bay Biosphere Reserve, various others | Saving Turtles at Risk Today (START) project | Reptiles, Habitats (e.g. lakes, wetlands, etc.) | Blanding's Turtle, Spotted Turtle, Northern Map Turtle, Snapping Turtle, Eastern Musk Turtle, Midland Painted Turtle | Wetlands | since 2013 | Muskoka, Parry Sound, Haliburton, northern Simcoe County, northern City of Kawartha Lakes | Research, Inventory/ monitoring/ mapping, Education, Public Outreach, Stewardship, Population Recovery, Threat mitigation | These are integrated, but I'll try. Research- long term capture/mark/recapture, morphometric data collection, blood sampling for DNA analyses, Inventory/monitoring/mapping- wetland, water body, and road surveys, long term capture/mark/recapture, GIS mapping/modelling of observation and habitat data Education- currently paused but historically a mix of outreach programming at local venues and events Public Outreach- in addition to the above, training community members to actively assist with turtle conservation, operating a public hotline for reporting turtles Stewardship- all of these things integrated Population Recovery- reducing threats, boosting recruitment through captive hatching and headstarting programs Threat Mitigation- enhanced road surveys during peak periods, hotspot analysis and working with agencies towards exclusion fencing | shell notching, digital image recognition, hoop traps, basking traps, | Large main egg incubation facility, satellite egg incubation facility, field site bases in multiple locations, large amounts of equipment related to fieldwork, communications networks, etc. | Likely but I can't think of any at present. | |||||||||||||
8 | 11/23/2020 11:36:23 | Scales Nature Park | Georgian Bay Turtle Hospital, Georgian Bay Biosphere Reserve | Georgian Bay Conservation Education and Research for Snakes (CARES) | Reptiles, Habitats (e.g. lakes, wetlands, etc.) | Eastern Foxsnake, Eastern Hog-nosed Snake, Massasauga | Wetlands, Grasslands/rock barrens/alvars/savannas | Launched in 2020 | Parry Sound, Muskoka, northern Simcoe County, west of Highway 11 | Research, Inventory/ monitoring/ mapping, Education, Public Outreach, Stewardship, Population Recovery, Threat mitigation | These are integrated, but I'll try. Research- long term capture/mark/recapture, morphometric data collection, blood sampling for DNA analyses, Inventory/monitoring/mapping- wetland, terrestrial and road surveys, long term capture/mark/recapture, GIS mapping/modelling of observation and habitat data Education- currently paused and shifting to an online format due to Covid-19 Public Outreach- in addition to the above, operating a public hotline for reporting snakes Stewardship- all of these things integrated Population Recovery- reducing threats, future captive breeding program Threat Mitigation- enhanced road surveys during peak periods, hotspot analysis and working with agencies towards exclusion fencing, minimizing persecution through response to hotline calls | rattle painting, future PIT tags | field site bases in one location, large amounts of equipment related to fieldwork, communications networks, etc. | Likely but I can't think of any right now. | |||||||||||||
9 | 11/23/2020 11:40:06 | Scales Nature Park | Blazing Star Environmental, Queen's University, Environment Canada | Chorus frog monitoring | Amphibians | Western Chorus Frog | Since 2016 | northern Simcoe County | southern Muskoka | Research, Inventory/ monitoring/ mapping | Research- collecting tissue samples for genomic analyses Monitoring- call surveys in the spring | ||||||||||||||||
10 | 11/23/2020 13:38:45 | Ontario Turtle Conservation Centre | Turtle Hospital, Education, Headstarting, Field studies, Post release studies, Research | Reptiles | Blanding's Turtle, Wood Turtle, Spotted Turtle, Northern Map Turtle, Snapping Turtle, Eastern Musk Turtle, Midland Painted Turtle, Spiny Softshell Turtle | 2002 | Ontario | Research, Inventory/ monitoring/ mapping, Education, Public Outreach, Stewardship, Population Recovery | Please see our website for details! ontarioturtle.ca | Microchips, radiotelemetry, notching | Hospital, hatchling program/headstarting/ and all related infrastructure | ||||||||||||||||
11 | 11/26/2020 15:41:29 | Blazing Star Environmental | Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) and Trent University | The New Long-Term Occurence Monitoring Program for the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence - Canadian Shield Population of the Western Chorus Frog | Amphibians | Western Chorus Frog | This project has been ongoing since 2018. Pilot studies were completed in 2018 and 2019. The final design of the program is to survey for 3 years in a row, followed by a 5 year break. The first year of the program was 2020, and the program will also run in 2021 and 2022. W | Great Lakes - St. Lawrence – Canadian Shield (GLSLCS) range of the western chorus frog (WCF) in Ontario. | Inventory/ monitoring/ mapping, Education, Public Outreach | Inventory/monitoring/mapping: auditory surveys are conducted at potential breeding sites throughout the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence - Canadian Shield (GLSLCS) region. Public Outreach/Education: Volunteers are recruited throughout the GLSLCS region to conduct auditory surveys during the chorus frog calling season. All volunteers are taught and trained on chorus frog habitat, and identification. | Auditory surveys to measure the distribution of western chorus frogs in Ontario | ||||||||||||||||
12 | 11/26/2020 17:06:41 | Blazing Star Environmental | Ontario Nature | Lost Bay Turtle Mark Recapture Studies | Reptiles | Blanding's Turtle, Northern Map Turtle, Snapping Turtle, Eastern Musk Turtle, Midland Painted Turtle | Ontario Nature conducted mark-recapture surveys from 2010-2014 and 2018. Blazing Star Environmental conducted surveys in 2019 and 2020, and hopes to conduct surveys in future years as well. | Lost Bay Nature Reserve | Inventory/ monitoring/ mapping | Mark recapture surveys will be conducted in Lost Bay Nature Reserve to estimate the populations of SAR turtles within the reserve. This data will inform habitat management and threat mitigation plans for these rare species. | Turtle traps are used to capture SAR turtles. Turtles are notched with a unique notch code to identify individual turtles within the study. | ||||||||||||||||
13 | 11/27/2020 12:16:57 | Haliburton Master Gardeners | We advise home and cottage owners on their gardens. | Birds, Insects, Plants/Lichens, Habitats (e.g. lakes, wetlands, etc.) | We believe all birds help create benefit to the area. | We believe that insects that are native to our area is a benefit all the way round. | All native trees and plants. No invasive species. | Wetlands, Shorelines/Coast, Lakes, We are trying educate home owners the benefits of naturalizing shorelines. | not sure I think 2002 | Education to the public. | Education, Public Outreach | We have had info booths at different locations and will go out to locations by request. We do ask for donations as we do incur costs of fuel and other costs of running our organization. Our members do volunteer their time. | We do not do any monitoring. | none | we do our own personal techniques on our own properties. That is shoreline restoration. Planting plants that will bring insects, birds and other creatures. Some of us do not live on shoreline properties, but we do want to support wildlife and plants that our native to our area. | ||||||||||||
14 | 11/30/2020 10:39:26 | Severn Sound Environmental Association | comments on land use planning/development proposals | Birds, Reptiles, Amphibians, Fish/Mollusks, Plants/Lichens, Habitats (e.g. lakes, wetlands, etc.) | Bank Swallow, Barn Swallow, Bobolink, Canada Warbler, Cerulean Warbler, Chimney Swift, Eastern Meadowlark, Eastern Whip-poor-will, Eastern Wood-pewee, Common Nighthawk, Black Tern, Red Headed Woodpecker, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Wood Thrush, Common Nightwalk, Red-Headed Woodpecker | Little Brown Myotis, Northern Myotis, Tri-coloured Bat | Blanding's Turtle, Spotted Turtle, Northern Map Turtle, Snapping Turtle, Eastern Musk Turtle, Midland Painted Turtle, Eastern Foxsnake, Eastern Hog-nosed Snake, Eastern Milksnake, Eastern Ribbonsnake, Massasauga, Five-lined Skink | Western Chorus Frog | general comments re: fish/fish habitat | American Ginseng, Black Ash, Butternut | Wetlands, Grasslands/rock barrens/alvars/savannas, Old growth forest, Shorelines/Coast, Lakes | ongoing since ~2007 ? | Severn Sound Environmental Association area (North Simcoe County and Twp Georgian Bay) | Education, Stewardship, land use planning/development reviews | education - primarily using resources of other agencies - both public education and facilitation of informational sessions to municipalities general stewardship info, upon request (again, using existing resources) land use planning/development reviews - review/comment on EIS reports and other info submitted with development proposals - our role is to provide info to municipalities to help them make appropriate decisions - referrals to Province on SAR/ESA as needed | ||||||||||||
15 | 12/1/2020 12:26:36 | Otonabee Conservation | Environment and Climate Change Canada, Community Partners | While Otonabee Conservation does not have an ongoing Species at Risk Program or Strategy, activities to protect and enhance habitat for SAR are undertaken on a project basis | Birds, Reptiles, Plants/Lichens, Habitats (e.g. lakes, wetlands, etc.) | Chimney Swift | all bat species found locally | Blanding's Turtle, Wood Turtle, Spotted Turtle, Northern Map Turtle, Snapping Turtle, Eastern Musk Turtle, Midland Painted Turtle, Eastern Milksnake | Monarch | American Ginseng | Wetlands, Shorelines/Coast | Otonabee Conservation initiated projects related to SAR in 2008 | Raising awareness of SAR in the Otonabee Region Watershed | protecting habitat for SAR in the Otonabee Region Watershed | Inventory/ monitoring/ mapping, Education, Public Outreach, Stewardship | Inventory/Monitoring activities have included reviewing NHIC records for turtle observations, and then mapping the results, field investigation to identify SAR habitat or species on Conservation lands. Education activities have included delivery of SAR programs to schools, scouts, guides, and summer camps. Public outreach and stewardship activities have included the installation of signage and habitat features (chimney swift towers, turtle nests, turtle crossing signs, Monarch waystations and pollinator gardens) at locations throughout the watershed. News articles, social media posts, and media releases are all also used to support projects. | Otonabee Conservation does not undertake any monitoring activities related to SAR. | Chimney Swift Towers were installed in partnership with the Trent-Severn Waterway at several locations, pollinator gardens/monarch waystations have been installed at parks, schools and conservation areas, turtle nests have been installed on public land, shoreline buffers established/enhanced on public property, milk snake hibernacula installed at Indian River Reptile Zoo. Most recently, turtle crossing signs were installed at Curve Lake First Nation. | Projects are generally undertaken through partnerships, and opportunities that arise when funding is available. | ||||||||
16 | 12/11/2020 23:17:25 | The Couchiching Conservancy | N/A | Citizen Science Stewardship Program | Birds, Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians, Plants/Lichens, Habitats (e.g. lakes, wetlands, etc.) | Acadian Flycatcher, Bank Swallow, Barn Swallow, Bobolink, Canada Warbler, Cerulean Warbler, Chimney Swift, Eastern Meadowlark, Eastern Whip-poor-will, Eastern Wood-pewee, Evening Grosbeak, Common Nighthawk, Peregrine Falcon, Black Tern, Golden-winged Warbler, Grasshopper Sparrow pratensis subspecies, Red Headed Woodpecker, Horned Grebe, Henslow's Sparrow, King Rail, Least Bittern, Loggerhead Shrike migrans subspecies, Loggerhead Shrike eastern subspecies, Louisiana Waterthrush, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Wood Thrush, Common Nightwalk, Red-Headed Woodpecker | Little Brown Myotis, Northern Myotis, Tri-coloured Bat | Blanding's Turtle, Spotted Turtle, Northern Map Turtle, Snapping Turtle, Midland Painted Turtle, Eastern Hog-nosed Snake, Eastern Milksnake, Eastern Ribbonsnake, Massasauga, Five-lined Skink | Western Chorus Frog | Monarch | American Ginseng, Butternut | Wetlands, Grasslands/rock barrens/alvars/savannas | For grassland Birds, 12 years. All others since 2018 | Oro-Medonte, Severn, Ramara, Dalton Twp, & City of Kawartha Lakes (particularly the Carden Alvar) | Research, Inventory/ monitoring/ mapping, Education, Public Outreach, Stewardship | The citizen science stewardship program is a plot-based research & monitoring program focused on our Land Trust's nature reserves as well as areas we are interested in for future acquisition/protection. Volunteers can choose from several research areas: Reptiles, Salamanders & Vernal Pools, Bats, Frog Call Monitoring, Whip-poor-will and Nighthawk Surveys, the Carden Grassland Bird Blitz, Plant Monitoring, and a new Bobolink, Meadowlark, Barn Swallow survey program in targeted areas will begin in 2021. We also provide general SAR Identification training to all volunteers. As of 2020 we are working with approx 120 volunteers, and they monitor Conservancy Nature Reserves in teams of two in order to steward the land. The results also inform our acquisition strategy. We provide training programs for each monitoring acitivity, along with protocols. Some private landowners also participate in the program. All data submitted to the NHIC. Between 2018 & 2020, over 1,441 SAR records have been submitted to the NHIC through this program. | We maintain two MOTUS towers in Ramara and Carden in partnership with Wildlife Preservation Canada, but this falls outside the program described here. The citizen science program relies on eyes and ears on the ground, taking photographs, video, and audio recordings for verification when needed. We use the Avenza mapping app, as well as gps. Recently we have been using trail cams on select nature reserves and are working with a software program that will allow volunteers to review the footage collected and identify species. | ||||||||||
17 | 12/18/2020 14:49:33 | Ontario Headwaters Institute | NA | NA | Habitats (e.g. lakes, wetlands, etc.) | Wetlands, Grasslands/rock barrens/alvars/savannas, Old growth forest, We believe that Ontario should have targets similar to How Much habitat is Enough | 2010 | Biodiversity, watershed management, land use planning | Education, Stewardship, Laws & Policy | Headwater Hikes; headwater metrics; videos; presentations; submissions; WaterScape | GIS platforms to measure various evident features such as stream order %s, natural heritage %s, % of straightened and hardened streams; % riparian cover | ||||||||||||||||
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