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August 2008
Dear Friend:
Maintaining Your Waterfront Home or Cottage: A Seasonal Guide
Do you live by a lake, river or stream? Do you own a cottage near water? Protect your investment and the environment. Use our seasonal guide for maintaining your waterfront property.
Home Care for Every Season: A Guide
Conservation Success Story
Nunavut Gets Three National Wildlife Areas
Essential habitat for Arctic marine animals like the endangered bowhead whale, walrus, harp seal, and millions of birds has been set aside by Canada. Nearly half a million hectares will be preserved!
Arctic Wildlife Receive Protection
Video Contest!
If you have a passion for nature and a little creativity, enter Nature Canada’s Favourite Places Video Contest and show us your favourite nature getaway. Download your best video footage to YouTube and you could win an Apple iTouch!
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Have You Checked Out Our Blog?
Staff ecologist Ted Cheskey goes hunting for mushrooms, and biologist Sarah Wren thinks small in her backyard garden. See these and other recent blog posts, including exclusive photos of one very large family of common mergansers!
Nature Canada Blog
Photo of the Month
It is becoming more difficult to select a favourite photo each month, as we receive plenty of fantastic nature pictures from across North America! These damselflies won out in the end but check out the runners-up on our blog and tell us which photo you’d pick!
August Photo of the Month
PLUS: Would you pick one of these runners-up? More photos.
Decorate Your Desktop
Bring Nature to your computer screen with our selection of beautiful wallpapers, and showcase your passion for this planet’s wild species and spaces!
Add Nature to Your Desktop!
Campaign Update
Room at the Inn for the Grenada Dove?
World-renowned authors Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson, Joint Honorary Presidents of BirdLife International's Rare Bird Club, share an update on efforts to prevent the construction of a Four Seasons Resort within the endangered dove’s last remaining habitat. Nature Canada members signed a petition last year, and your voice is being heard!
Grenada Dove Update
Quick Poll Results: Should You Welcome Wildlife to Your Yard?
Last month we asked you: Should people try to attract wildlife to their backyard? The results: Of 482 people (so far), 86.7% said yes. Though these results may not show it, this issue can be controversial. Read what you and we had to say about it.
Readers Weigh in on Backyard Wildlife
Around the Bend
Want to get involved with nature-related events in your area? Check out our calendar to see what's coming up, or submit details for your event.
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