How our work impacts conservation across Canada.
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.
Wildlife
Celebrating conservation greats
DUC’s North American Waterfowl Conservation Honour Roll inducts new members
Does nature need cities?
Senior conservation ecologist Abigail Derby Lewis explains how you can help take butterfly conservation efforts to your own backyard.
The plight of pollinators
Helping these small creatures is also an act of helping ourselves
The Big Hatch
DUC conserves, restores and manages wetlands with a big waterfowl hatch in mind. If the habitat is available and the conditions are right, the payoff is undeniably adorable.
That time when a duck family took over the backyard pool
Just when the mid-summer weather sends the family out to the backyard pool, another family arrives hoping to duck in.
More wildlife expected at Aylmer WMA following wetland rebuild
Retired WWII airfield undergoes a second habitat transformation to attract more migratory birds and bird-watchers.
Turning back the clock on muskie habitat
Conservation projects that are helping ducks and fish in the Kawartha Lakes watershed.
Native Plant Solutions helps solve a sodding problem
Native Plant Solutions works with Qualico Communities to introduce native prairie grasses into developments...and then sets them on fire.
Cloudy with a chance of waterfowl
Radar technology informs the weather forecast…and plays an important role in conservation
Shell shock: Ontario’s turtle emergency
Ontario’s eight turtle species are at risk. The population in the province took a heavy blow in 2017, but these reptiles can find refuge in Ducks Unlimited Canada projects.
Dragonflies and monarchs: a two-generation migration
In the world of dragonfly and butterfly migration, it takes two generations to complete a round-trip. Adults migrate south in the fall and their offspring return north in the spring.
Floodgates open for fish along St. Lawrence River
This spring, migrating ducks made way for incoming fish on DUC wetland sites along the St. Lawrence River. But the fish didn’t want to be there.