The Don River is one of the most important rivers of the Toronto area and probably the single one most important river for the historical industrialisation of the city. It meanders through a deep ravine and as such, it is hidden from view for most people. Yet, in recent decades, the City of Toronto and [...]

The Don Valley Brick Works is an industrial site where bricks and clay products have been made for over a century. Many of the historically important buildings in Toronto have been constructed with bricks from this site, such as Old City Hall, Osgoode Hall and Casa Loma.
The site is being transformed into a “green” themed [...]

Todmorden Mills is an historic site in Toronto, Ontario (Canada), one of the oldest industrial sites of the city that are still in existence.
The site was created by Isaiah and Aaron Skinner after they had been granted 81 hectares of land by Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe for the purpose of constructing and operating a saw [...]

Dutch: degenkrab (wetenschappelijke naam: zie Latin)
English: horseshoe crab (scientific name: see Latin)
Latin: Limulidae (singular: Limulida)
Horseshoe crabs are often called living fossils because they exist since the late Ordovician period, around 460 to 450 million years ago.
Horseshoe crabs are remarkable creatures. For example, they do not have the same red-coloured chemical in their blood as humans [...]

Opabinia is an animal genus found in Cambrian fossil deposits. Its sole species, Opabinia regalis, is known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia. Fewer than twenty good specimens have been described. It has five eyes and a long nose with a claw at the top.
It is part of the so-called “Cambrian explosion”, [...]

Hallucigenia is an extinct genus of fossil animals which resemble long-legged centipedes with sea-urchin spines and are found in the Middle Cambrian-aged Burgess Shale formation of British Columbia, Canada, represented by the species Hallucigenia sparsa, and in the Lower Cambrian Maotianshan shale of China, represented by the species Hallucigenia fortis.
This genus is part of the so-called “Cambrian [...]

CHIRP is the abbreviation for:
Creating Habitat In Residential areas and Parkland
It refers to Project CHIRP!, a conservation initiative founded by Toronto’s Christian Sharma, that aims to encourage people to plant local flowers, shrubs and trees in an effort to provide habitat for local and migrating birds and songbirds.
The organisation has an official website.

Charles Darwin is arguably one the most important scientists who ever lived. Lots can be said about him, but why bother if Richard Dawkins has made a magnificent three-part documentary about Charles Darwin and what he represents?
The genius of Charles Darwin, a must-see three-part documentary: part 1, part 2 and part 3.
One of the problems [...]

IMBD is the abbreviation for:
International Migratory Bird Day
IMBD is the signature programme of EFTA (Environment for the Americas), a programme that attempts to raise awareness about migratory birds and tries to educate the public about the nearly 350 migratory bird species in North and South America.
The organisation has an official website.

Toronto is the largest city in Canada and it is also the heart of the economy of the country. Toronto Zoo is its zoo, but Toronto Zoo is not your typical large-city zoo. It is considered one of the top ten zoos in the world, and it is also one of the largest.
There are quite [...]