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.
Partnerships

Where cattle and ducks find a home on the range
The Hanceville Cattle Co. and DUC take the road less travelled in their commitment to conservation and agriculture in the Chilcotin.

Collaboration helps all of us do more
Farmers grow and harvest our food while caretaking millions of acres of land.

The best possible return on investment
Large, restored wetlands in Ontario are even more valuable than when they were created in the first place—often decades ago.

Thank you, Canada. You’ve made 2019 a year for conservation.

The Coca-Cola Foundation: helping balance water needs
Revealing transformation: funding from The Coca-Cola Foundation helped restore this prairie wetland near Strathclair, Manitoba, to its full potential.

Fueling conservation through sustainable development
Pembina Pipeline Corporation makes a large conservation investment in Canada’s Prairies, helping to preserve important wetland and grassland habitat.

Courting nature at Frank Lake, Alberta
Videographer Brian Keating gets front-row seat to elaborate avian choreography

Celebrating 30 years of the North American Wetlands Conservation Act
Celebrating the success of the North American Wetlands Conservation Act through the eyes of a longtime DUC employee.

Canada duck stamp sales help fund conservation
As the Canadian Wildlife Habitat Conservation Stamp celebrates 35 years, we recognize the projects funded and the people—hunters and others—who support it.

Celebrating conservation greats
DUC’s North American Waterfowl Conservation Honour Roll inducts new members

Fighting for the salmon and waterfowl of the Fraser
Conservation project aims to renew fish stocks and fight invasive plants in B.C.’s most famous estuary

New research reveals how wetlands support prairie pollinators
DUC's research wing, the Institute for Wetland & Waterfowl Research (IWWR), powers our conservation decision making. To date, more than 700 research publications have guided our conservation activities toward real, measurable progress.

Honda Canada and DUC: conserving Canada’s great outdoors
Partnership helps conserve wilderness for future generations and rewards conservation supporters with special Honda offers.

Fueling conservation on the Prairies
Pembina Pipeline’s $1-million gift supports DUC Revolving Land Conservation Program.

Local contractors: DUC’s proxies in Ontario’s rural communities
Local contractors like Bill Stapleton help make DUC's habitat work possible in Ontario.

Fighting back against invasive Phragmites
Pilot program is gaining ground in the battle against an alien giant.

Patterns and personality
DUC partners with award-winning bird author, Richard Crossley, for the release of The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl.

Finding common ground
Blending science with traditional knowledge to map 77 million acres of wetlands, for the future for northern communities…and conservation.

Powered by conservation
Honda Canada is a company that believes in the power of mobility and strives to move people in a multitude of ways – from ATVs, power equipment, cars, light trucks and marine engines to small jets that fly high above the clouds. But these machines provide more than just mobility.

A fifty-gun salute to conservation
Rare personal firearm collection aims to benefit Ducks Unlimited Canada