Lectures

Each year TFN offers its members eight free Zoom talks by noted experts, exploring everything from nature in the city to global environmental issues. Recent lectures have included Climate Change and Toronto’s Nature, Toronto’s Ravine Strategy, and Wetland Restoration And Management In Canada’s Largest City: 30 Years Of Lessons Learned And Adaptive Management. For more recordings of our past lectures please visit our lectures playlist on YouTube.

Talks are presented Sunday afternoons at 2:30 pm, from September to May with audience discussion time. Visitors are always welcome and no admission fee is charged. Members can also access Zoom links for upcoming talks on the “For Members” web page, where recordings of past lectures are also available.

May Lecture: The Biodiversity Value of Small Natural Spaces in CitiesDate: May 05, 2024 @ 14:30Meeting Location: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86042264336?pwd=9OCfdh7ir9sZDFt8KGVM8QlKJ4AvwB.1 - Join us on Sunday, May 5th at 2:30 pm for our May lecture: The Biodiversity Value of Small Natural Spaces in Cities. Dr. Lenore Fahrig will be our guest.  She provides compelling evidence that all urban natural space contributes to biodiversity protection, no matter how small the individual areas. Lenore Fahrig is Chancellor’s Professor of Read More

Upcoming Lectures

Fall 2024 schedule coming soon.