TYS Stories Archive - Page 14 of 17 - World Wildlife Fund Canada

A Rare Spectacular Sighting

by | Mar 16, 2023

So there Sue and I were on our deck overlooking highway 24 south of Simcoe. A raccoon carcass was on the shoulder of the road. A magnificent Bald Eagle was trying to have dinner and was constantly flying away because of road traffic. I took my shovel and moved the...

Respect

by | Mar 15, 2023

I love animals. I also love humans and the planet we live on. I really worry about the living things that we purport to share this magnificent planet with. I do not think we, as humans, know how to share. Not this sandbox; not any sandbox. And, so I worry about the...

Looking after Nature’s Children

by | Mar 15, 2023

I first was first inspired when I moved to Ottawa in April 2000 and heard about OCWC- Ottawa Carleton Wildlife Centre in June of 2001. My husband had found two baby squirrels-roughly a week old who had fallen out of their nest at the base of a tree on his...

by | Mar 15, 2023

In about grade 4 when the teacher read aloud a book about forest life. It brought humans into the story, humans who lived in the coastal rainforest. My hope is that what I’ve had in my life is what future generations will have – plants and animals who...

A gift of love

by | Mar 15, 2023

My husband David purchased an owl for a little girl in Ontario who he adored. David loved nature and children and would spend all his free time enjoying the beauty of nature. He gifted this owl for a little girls fourth birthday one day before he passed away. I will...