World Biosphere Reserves

• Your Biosphere Reserve — Creating a Sustainable Future (Canadian Biosphere Reserves Association)
• Biosphere Reserves in Canada: Exploring ideals and experience (Environments: a Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies)

Long Point Biosphere Reserve

• Long Point Biosphere Reserve Periodic Review Report, 2001
• Long Point Environmental Folio

Monitoring and Surveys in Norfolk County

• Waterfowl and Wetlands of Long Point Bay and Old Norfolk County (Long Point Waterfowl and Wetlands Research Fund)
• Forest Monitoring Status Report (Long Point Biosphere Reserve Foundation)
• Salamander Monitoring at Backus Woods Report, 1999-2003 (Long Point Biosphere Reserve Foundation and University of Western Ontario)
• 2008 Marsh Bird and Anuran Species Occurance and Abundance at Long Point Inner Bay Wetland (Bird Studies Canada)

Research Studies

• Rapid Increase in The Great Lakes Population of Mute Swans (Bird Studies Canada)
• Spring Banding of American Black Ducks (Bird Studies Canada)
• Phragmites Research (Bird Studies Canada)

Project Reports

• Long Point Habitat Restoration Project (Long Point Biosphere Reserve)

Rural Landowner Stewardship

• Caring for Nature in Norfolk (Carolinian Canada Coalition)
• Wanted! Species at Risk in Norfolk poster (Carolinian Canada Coalition)
• Growing Native Tallgrasses and Wildflowers for Prairie Restoration (Long Point Biosphere Reserve Association)
• Rural Landowner Stewardship Guide for Ontario Landscapes (University of Guelph)
• Grasslands Stewardship Guide for Framers and Rural Landowners (Ontario Barn Owl Recovery Project)
• A Guide to Stewardship Planning for Natural Areas (Ministry of Natural Resources)

The Long Point area, comprising 26,250 hectares, was designated as a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in April, 1986, the third in Canada. Today it is one of 15 biosphere reserves in Canada. It provides an example of the Great Lakes coastal ecosystem and a unique blend of habitats – long uninterrupted beaches, undisturbed sand dunes, grassy ridges, wet meadows, woodlands, marshes and ponds, coldwater streams, and the shallow Inner Bay.

• Download the Long Point World Biosphere Reserve pamphlet (945 K)

Kids for Turtles is a symbolic name – it combines children, who are our future, and turtles from our past – to form a promising outlook for our environment. Turtles have lived on earth for over 250 million years without becoming extinct, unlike many species.

Within the past few decades, human activity has had a devastating impact on turtles. Turtles are a “canary in the coal mine.” Our children will live in the world we have left to them and they will be responsible for it. This is why it is essential that our young people learn about our natural environment.

• Download the Kids for Turtles pamphlet (600 K)

You may also view a slightly smaller version of the pamphlet here.

If you would like to support Kids for Turtles by becoming a member, please download our membership form. Print this form, fill it out, and mail it to the address printed on the bottom of the form.