Please join a team of thousands of volunteers across North America to help scientists monitor changes in winter feeder-bird populations from year to year. You choose how much time you want to spend. The 2011-12 season goes from Saturday, November 12 until Friday, April 6. More information here.

Canadian Migration Monitoring Network (CMMN) stations across the country, many of which are in Ontario, are looking for birders and banders who are interested in gaining the experience of a lifetime volunteering or working for the birds. Visit the CMMN web-site for more information about stations near you and opportunities offered.

If you believe parks are places of beauty that should be protected and preserved then you may want to sign a letter to the Canadian government calling for immediate action to complete Canada's system of national parks before more wilderness is lost.

Ontario Nature, in partnership with various groups, has begun work on a new Ontario Herpetofaunal Atlas Program. Volunteers are needed to submit observations of reptiles and amphibians found throughout Ontario. Help support this project by submitting your sightings. Get more information here.

Report your turtle sightings by entering your observations into the Turtle Tally database. Information collected will be submitted to the Natural Heritage Information Centre and used to learn more about turtle distributions in Ontario.

Volunteers are needed to monitor a ground-nesting wasp Cerceris fumipennis that preys on emerald ash borers. Its activity can indicate whether the emerald ash borer has arrived in the vicinity. How to become a wasp watcher.