Ontario Wildlife

• Ontario’s largest raccoon rescue sanctuary clawing to stay open amid funding woes

  Mally's Third Chance Raccoon Rescue and Rehabilitation Sanctuary in the City of Kawartha Lakes needs $20,000 a month to operate but on average receives $3,200 in donations.

  Environment

  Aug 8, 2023
  
• Conservation officers investigate abandoned moose carcass found near Roseneath

  Conservation officers responded to complaints of a moose carcass found dumped in an open area along a hydro corridor near Roseneath.

  Crime

  Oct 20, 2022
  
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• Environmental groups rip new caribou protection deal between Ontario and Ottawa

  They say the deal threatens the very existence of the estimated 5,000 caribou in the province.

  Environment

  Apr 28, 2022
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• Swath of boreal forest twice the size of Toronto to be protected in northern Ontario

  The Nature Conservancy of Canada spent the last year negotiating the purchase of 1,450 square kilometres of the boreal forest near Hearst, Ont., from a pulp and paper company.

  Environment

  Apr 22, 2022
• Wildlife corridor in Lake Ontario watershed now protected land, conservation group says

  The national land conservation non-profit says the land is also home to eastern wolf, black bear, moose, pine marten, elk and rare birds.

  Environment

  Mar 17, 2022
• Scarborough residents raise alarm over increased coyote sightings after recent dog attack

  Residents in a Scarborough neighbourhood are voicing concerns around increased coyote sightings, just days after a six-year-old Yorkie was attacked by one.

  Canada

  Jul 23, 2021
• Rehabilitated bald eagle released back into wild in Peterborough area

  The bald eagle was found unconscious a road south between Norwood and Havelock in late November.

  Canada

  Dec 9, 2020
• Toronto fox den prompts verbal altercation among visitors gathered at site

  As a fox and her kits continue to occupy a den under the boardwalk near Toronto's Woodbine Beach Park, tensions among those gathering at the site appear to have escalated.

  Canada

  May 6, 2020
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• Coronavirus pandemic likely a boon for Ontario wildlife as humans stay home

  Ontario's wildlife will likely experience a population boom thanks to an ongoing state of emergency that is keeping most people in the province at home, a pair of experts say.

  Environment

  Apr 15, 2020
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• Ministry dropping rabies vaccine baits by air in southern Ontario

  The rabies vaccine baits are an effort to immunize any raccoons, skunks and foxes that eat them.

  Environment

  Aug 19, 2019