Our economy, quality of life and health are directly tied to biodiversity. It’s worth protecting for our sake and for its own sake. We need to work together to protect our plants, animals, land, lakes and rivers, forests and other ecosystems. Life – it’s brought to you by biodiversity!

ABOUT THE ONTARIO BIODIVERSITY COUNCIL The Ontario Biodiversity Council is a group of volunteers from environmental and conservation organizations, government, academia, industry, and Indigenous communities and organizations. Since its creation in 2005, Council has worked to guide and drive the implementation of Ontario’s Biodiversity Strategy. We recognize that no single government, organization, or sector can […]

BIODIVERSITY AND THE ECONOMY Biodiversity provides ecosystem goods and services that we rely on everyday, however the values they provide are often missed or hidden unless they are a marketable product, e.g., timber, fishing.  However, non-marketable outputs, e.g clean air, are just as important and evidence suggests that leaving biodiversity out of the economic valuation […]

Ontario’s Biodiversity Strategy guides conservation across the province. It’s like a ‘to-do’ list for all people and sectors to protect and restore biodiversity. The first strategy was created in 2005 and updated in 2011. It’s time to renew the strategy to 2030. Thanks to everyone who participated in our public engagement in February and March […]

The 2021 Ontario Biodiversity Summit took place from May to October, 2021. It brought together people from across Ontario to talk about, celebrate, and discuss actions to conserve and restore biodiversity.

In order to protect biodiversity we need to understand it.

Did you miss our recent 2021 Ontario Biodiversity Session on Restoring Aquatic Biodiversity? Or are you looking to find out more about research mentioned during one of the panels?  Don’t worry! We’ve collected all of the session resources for you!

Join us for the virtual 2021 Ontario Biodiversity Summit! Our engaging sessions will be led by subject matter experts and will bring together people from across Ontario and around the globe to talk about, celebrate, and take action to protect biodiversity using nature-based solutions! Register now!  

Biodiversity and climate change are linked: climate change threatens Ontario’s biodiversity, while biodiversity improves Ontario’s resilience and adaptability to a changing climate. In order to protect and preserve our existing biodiversity while encouraging sustainable production and growth, we need to find ways to encourage meaningful action in varying contexts. There are, significant challenges to communicating […]

EcoHealth Ontario, a working group of the Ontario Biodiversity Council, wrote a report that summarizes the linkages between biodiversity and human health. This report states that new knowledge and research may be used to protect and promote the well-being of current and future generations of Ontarians. Click here to view the full PDF on the […]