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Since 2004, NLT has helped protect over 400 acres of special natural lands in the Oak Ridges Moraine and other areas of Northumberland County Properties and conservation easements have been donated to us by individuals with a great love for nature. Our goal is to protect natural lands by: • accepting donations of significant lands to manage as nature reserves • entering into conservation easements with willing owners to legally protect natural areas from future development • working cooperatively with other organizations to acquire or manage ecological lands • engaging private landowners and volunteers in positive conservation actions • increasing local knowledge and awareness about natural heritage conservation

The Fondation Ecologique du Grand Montreal, since its creation in 2002, actively participates in numerous projects of environmental nature in the greater Montreal region. We annually intervene and realize projects in our fields of expertise: the Natural land preservation, acquisition, restoration and management; the education and raising of the environmental awareness of elementary schools students; actions to reduce Climat Change by the means of our program to fight back against urban heat island effect.

The Friends of Cypress Hills Park have built an Observatory complete with a 60 seat classroom and 14" Celetron Telescope, a playground, placed numerous memorial benches and interpretive signs, have established and maintain a recycle program, they host and provide all volunteers for an annual Canada Day breakfast, sponsor and organize the annual Ivan Eng Memorial Golf Tournament and purchase equipment for the beach as well as for park astronomy interpretive programs. The friends also provide donation and bequest management for donations received by the park or Friends for specific events including First Nations events.

Located in Peterborough Ontario, Kawartha Turtle Trauma Centre - soon to be the Ontario Turtle Conservation Centre - is a registered charity whose goal is to aid in the conservation of Ontario’s native turtles and the habitat in which they live. We accomplish this by operating a turtle hospital that treats, rehabilitates and releases injured turtles, by running an education and outreach program, and by performing extensive research in the field to further conservation initiatives

Founded in 2001, Ottawa Riverkeeper is a grassroots charity formed to protect, promote and improve the health and future of the Ottawa River and its tributaries. Ottawa Riverkeeper works collaboratively to inspire others to take action, to encourage responsible decision making, to hold polluters accountable and to recommend alternative practices and policies to safeguard our local waterways. Ottawa Riverkeeper is a member of Waterkeeper Alliance, an international grassroots organization founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. We envision an Ottawa River that is clean and healthy, provides safe drinking water, supports a diverse range of species, invites world-class recreation and enables sustainable economic activity. The river is appreciated and recognized for its natural capital and is diligently protected for the well-being of all. Future generations are proud to inherit the Ottawa River, and are motivated and inspired to respect and protect it in perpetuity.

TerraVie is a non-profit charitable organization that acquires, preserves and manages land for future generations which is made available for the development of viable communities. Since september 2006, TerraVie protect a 238 acres land located at Montcalm (Weir), Québec.

The hockey teams, known as Grandravine Tornadoes, are on the ice approximately 26 weeks of the year, 2 hours per week. Participants do not need to know how to skate or play hockey, just the will to play the sport, as the program is geared to individual needs. We encourage prospective new members to come out with family members and observe our teams in action. Watch the interaction–and enjoy the positive atmosphere. All participants are coached and instructed in “day-to-day coping skills” and, after these have been mastered, take part in hockey practice sessions, skill improvement sessions and, hockey games against each other and against other teams in the Special Hockey International League.

The Conservancy celebrated its tenth birthday in June 2014. It currently owns five properties totaling 122 hectares and holds an easement on a 71 hectare property. It monitors a 31 hectare property for the Ontario Heritage Trust. It plans to acquire more properties following its acquisition policy and strategic plan. Over 125 members support the work of the Land Conservancy with many volunteers doing stewardship work, monitoring properties, and evaluating potential acquisitions. An 11-member Board manages the organization. We are very proud of all that we are accomplishing as a non-profit, entirely volunteer land trust dedicated to “keeping nature near … always”. Website: LandConservancyKFLA.org email: info@landconservancykfla.org

WCS Canada implements and supports comprehensive field studies that gather information on wildlife needs and then seeks to resolve key conservation problems by working with a broad array of stakeholders, including local community members, conservation groups, regulatory agencies, and commercial interests. From Yukon to Labrador we work to conserve wolverine, grizzly bears, freshwater fish, lynx, caribou, and many other Canadian species. Major issues addressed to date include protected-area design, wildlife monitoring and recovery, and integrated landscape management. WCS Canada is an independently registered and managed program of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), headquartered at the Bronx Zoo, New York, which operates conservation programs in over 55 countries around the world. WCS is a recognized global leader in conservation, dedicated to saving wildlife and wildlands in order to assure a future for threatened species such as elephants, tigers, sharks, macaws and lynx.

Working closely with landowners and the general public, we help to ensure, through watershed management and land protection, that scenic areas, wetlands, critical wildlife habitats, and other significant natural areas are preserved for future generations.

OFT actively protects farmland by working directly with landowners who have a desire to see their farms permanently protected for agriculture. We offer both landowners and community groups tools, such as farmland conservation easements, that can be used to protect individual properties of value to them. OFT also assists in raising awareness of the impacts of farmland loss, the need for greater farmland preservation and the importance of land stewardship. We provide ongoing volunteer and learning opportunities and encourage collaboration amongst diverse stakeholders, including farmers, local food groups, land use planners, health advocates and government.

The well-being of Ontario’s headwaters - flows that recharge groundwater, create wetlands, and provide the base-flow for our streams and lakes – is fundamental to maintaining our freshwater capital. Waters seeping into and coming from aquifers, babbling through forests and meadows, nursing the biological diversity of our wetland complexes, and flowing through our valley corridors provide the sources of our streams, lakes, and groundwater. Our ecological tapestry, our food supply, our very existence depend on the availability and quality of our headwaters. Indeed, our freshwater capital is one of the pillars upon which life rests, and upon which our quality of life depends. We cut off our headwaters, drain them, or pollute them at our peril. The Ontario Headwaters Institute seeks to preserve our headwaters, and to identify, engage, and partner with organizations in this common cause.