How our work impacts conservation across Canada.
Impact Areas
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Where we’re working on the ground from coast to coast.
We need your help to protect our water, wildlife, and wetlands. Here’s how you can make an impact.
Invasive Species
Battling Spartina to protect B.C.’s coastal estuaries
How conservationists are using technology to control the spread of an invasive plant species .
Partnering to prevent invasive species
Engaging its key partners and the public through a series of campaigns focused on the pathways of the spread of invasives, CCIS serves as a national voice and hub to protect Canada from the impacts of invasive species.
Youth join the vanguard to stop invasive species in Canada
Meet students who monitor and protect their local wetlands when they go to school.
Putting artificial intelligence to work identifying invasive species
DUC pilot project with AI firm saiwa helps maximize field time in battling European water chestnut, an invasive species affecting Ontario's waterways.
DUC’s European Water Chestnut Eradication Program in Ontario
Control and monitoring disrupt the seed cycle in Eastern Lake Ontario and the Rideau River.
DUC’s phragmites mitigation program in Ontario
Co-ordinated action to protect ecosystem health.
Invasive cattail removal on the Fraser River Delta is a cut above
Promising signs from Invasive species cattail management experiment underway at Frenchies Island in the Fraser River Delta of B.C.
Chasing phragmites: The race we have to win
Racing to protect healthy wetland habitats for native plants and animals.
Fighting Russian Olive in the Okanagan
DUC is is fighting the invasive tree before it can take root in the Quintal floodplain
Invasive phragmites and the wetlands of tomorrow
How can we reduce the impacts of non-native phragmites on wetlands?
DUC’s European Water Chestnut Eradication Program in Ontario
Control and monitoring disrupt the seed cycle in Eastern Lake Ontario and the Rideau River.
Decisive action removes invasive aquatic plant, parrotfeather, in eastern Ontario
A landowner’s call for help receives a rapid response to halt an invasive aquatic plant.
DUC’s fight against invasive species
They are pretty, but destructive to wetlands and other natural areas. DUC is combating invasive species using some surprising methods like gardening tools, livestock and beetles.
Reclaiming wetlands from purple loosestrife
Our Native Plant Solutions (NPS) engaged a Manitoba First Nation in the fight to rescue habitat from a beautiful and destructive invasive plant. In partnership with the Centre of Indigenous Environmental Resources, NPS and members of the Brokenhead Ojibway Nation released approximately 450 purple loosestrife beetles at five wetland sites in an area known for rare plant species and species of cultural importance to the community.
Cleaning up after common carp
Researchers shut out an invasive fish species to help restore Delta Marsh.