How our work impacts conservation across Canada.
Impact Areas
Approaches
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.
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The faces of sustainable food
The farmers who make up DUC's agricultural sustainability team are leaving their own mark on the Canadian landscape.
Migration: A perilous journey
We offer this practical guide to help concerned conservationists (like you) support migrating waterfowl every flap of the way.
Under the Wing
A mentored waterfowl hunt in B.C. helps a daughter understand, appreciate and embrace her father’s passion for conservation.
Heeding the call of the wild
DUC’s Outdoor Event Series empowers people to experience nature in new ways… and build support for conservation at the same time.
Citizen science gone wild
How can you contribute to conservation research? The answer is at your fingertips.
Leading the way
Walking DUC’s conservation path is humbling and exciting for our new CEO, Larry Kaumeyer.
Conservation’s greatest ace
Legendary pilot and Canadian war hero Stocky Edwards embarks on a new mission to mark his 100th birthday.
Conservation in Canada’s boreal forest
Karla Guyn appointed board chair of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative
The good place
The Alberta farm known as "Elsie’s Place” gets new lease on life as a land donation to Ducks Unlimited Canada.
The honour of my lifetime
Mitch Weegman is named the DUC Endowed Chair in Wetland and Waterfowl Conservation at USask. The Endowed Chair is the first of its kind in Canada.
Finding hope with conservation
DUC staff, volunteers and supporters have intuitively known the value of hope “with its sleeves rolled up” since 1938. It is a fundamental reason why we’ve been able to make a difference on the conservation landscape.
Restore. Recover. Rewild.
It’s not too late. We can recover some of the damage and restore degraded habitat. We can rewild Canada’s wetlands and other life-sustaining natural spaces.
Herd immunity in the wild
Roll up your sleeve and think about a colony of eiders, now happily breeding in the remote Canadian Arctic after achieving herd immunity.
Wetlands: where learning comes to life
Wetlands don’t just nurture ducks. They foster young minds, too. Here’s how we’re helping up-and-coming conservationists earn their wings … and fly.
Explore your inner wild
For explorer and photographer Dax Justin, getting outside and reconnecting to the vitality of nature and our ecosystem is the only way to live.
Mallards and measurement
DUC leads the way in using science and research to measure our wetland conservation impacts.
The power of relationships
Donor’s spirit of giving lives on through her conservation legacy.
Flocking to nature
What does the growing interest in live-off-the-land DIY mean for conservation?
My Eureka moment
Ducks Unlimited Canada conservation scientists reflect on the experiences that inspired them to turn a passion for waterfowl and wetlands into their life’s work.
Saskatchewan conservation easement natural step in land legacy journey
A couple from opposite coasts unites in appreciation of a special prairie place and protects it for the future
Why I belong to DUC (and so do you)
Lauren Bortolotti is a DUC research scientist. Here, she shares her personal conservation journey and how she found where she belonged: with us.
The Earth breathes
How in a post-COVID-19 world, we can “build back better” and what opportunities that brings to conservation.
Agriculture and conservation: food for thought
“Farm to table” products can be sustainable, when they come with a healthy side of conservation.
Waterfowl at your service: how ducks and geese help our environment
How our ducks and geese deliver a lot of benefits to our environment and to us.