Planning is underway for the 2025 Ontario Biodiversity Summit!  We will be talking about, celebrating, and taking action to conserve biodiversity in Ontario. Stay tuned for more information about the captivating sessions, workshops, learning opportunities, and more! Would you like to get involved? Let us know and sign up to receive email updates!  Want to […]

We celebrated Biodiversity Day on May 22nd 2023 by releasing a Summary of the renewed Ontario’s Biodiversity Strategy! The full strategy is coming soon so check back! In the meantime, we wanted to share some of the updates and improvements made to the Strategy, which will guide our conservation actions to 2030. Check out and share […]

Check out our news release about the updates to Ontario’s Biodiversity Strategy! We’re pleased to share the summary version with you. You can read our news release about it here: News release OBS2023

Ontario’s Biodiversity Strategy helps guide conservation efforts in Ontario. It’s time to update it to focus on new targets and priorities to 2030.  Get involved! Share your ideas on how we can work together to: empower people, reduce threats, enhance resilience, improve knowledge, and transform investments.

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.

The diversity of life is our best defence in a world with a rapidly changing climate. The results of the State of Ontario’s Biodiversity 2015 report showed that progress is being made to conserve biodiversity, but, that more needs to be done – especially to enhance resilience of our ecosystems.  Council’s new Strategic Agenda will guide […]

The Ontario Biodiversity Council was proud to attend COP 13, the Conference of the Parties in Cancun, Mexico in December 2016.  It is the highest governing body of the Convention on Biological Diversity.  OBC was there to share Ontario’s unique model for conserving biodiversity and the work of Council including the Ontario Biodiversity Strategy, reporting on the […]