Nowadays, most people know about the urgent threat of climate change – but not many are aware that nature is one of our biggest allies against it! We need to raise awareness and share the message with others 📢
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The quickest and easiest way to show your support for nature and our planet this Earth Hour (besides switching off your lights 😉).
Add your Voice and submit a pledge to let world leaders know that you demand urgent action to reverse nature loss – it’ll take less than a minute!
Watch and share the official Earth Hour 2020 video, featuring “Rock the World” by The Script!
(Warning: Your friends will blame you for getting this song stuck in their head)
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In 2007, Earth Hour encouraged people around the world to switch off their lights to call attention to climate change. More than a decade later, the climate crisis remains, magnified by another urgent threat: the rapid loss of biodiversity and nature.
The rate of global loss of nature in the last 50 years is unprecedented in human history – and as we saw with the fires in the Amazon and most recently, in Australia, it’s only getting worse. 😢
For the city folks out there, we get it – nature and the outdoors aren’t really in your backyard, and the buildings around you aren’t on fire so why care, right? Wrong!
We may not always realize it, but nature has a critical role in almost every aspect of our lives. From the water we drink, the air we breathe, the food we eat – that’s right, no nature means no pizza or chocolate 😯 – and even the sports we play, nature is critical to our survival, well-being, and quality of life!
But that’s not all – nature is also one of our strongest allies against climate change, which could affect one billion people by 2050.
This Earth Hour, you have the power to spread awareness in your community on the importance of celebrating, protecting, and restoring nature.
Thanks are extended to the eight club members who participated in this year’s annual Christmas Bird Count, held on December 28, 2019. Sightings of 17 species from the two-hour walk are noted below along with count numbers from December 2017 and 2018, for comparison. There was little activity in the Reserve – perhaps due to warmer weather some birds are staying farther north for longer.
| Species | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 |
| American Goldfinch | 9 | 35 | 17 |
| Northern Cardinal | 0 | 13 | 9 |
| Dark-Eyed Junco | 0 | 7 | 36 |
| American Tree Sparrow | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Brown Creeper | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| White-breasted Nuthatch | 9 | 11 | 9 |
| Black-capped Chickadee | 19 | 43 | 23 |
| American Crow | 9 | 5 | 3 |
| Blue Jay | 1 | 5 | 18 |
| Mourning Dove | 3 | 1 | 11 |
| Canada Geese | 1 | 45 | 22 |
| Herring Gull | 8 | 1 | 0 |
| Hairy Woodpecker | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Downy Woodpecker | 4 | 12 | 9 |
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | 5 | 3 | 4 |
| Ducks (unidentified) | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| Red-tailed Hawk | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Harrier Hawk | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Coopers Hawk | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Starlings | 15 | 0 | 0 |
| Great Horned Owl | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Bald Eagle | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Rock Pidgeons | 20 | 0 | 0 |
Photos courtesy of Terry Parker, Professional Wildlife Photographer.
On October 5, the Ingersoll District Nature Club held a Fungus Walk at the Lawson Nature Reserve. Nine people came out for the walk, including four members of the Nature Club and five visitors. Led by Club member Bill Grant, the Nature Club found a good variety of fungi and explained several berries and plants found along the walk.
