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Your Next Nature Adventure Starts Here.

  • Join IONS for educational interactive nature walks, workshops and more.

  • Connect with fellow nature enthusiasts, and explore the world around you.

  • Help steward habitats by participating in planting pollinator gardens and invasive removal.

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a swallow butterfly on some lavender flowers.

About Us

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We're IONS (Into the Outside Nature Stewards).

 

Our team members are nature nerds with a passion for the natural world around us. Some of us stop for frogs, others for butterflies, birds, bees, or beetles, but we're all united by a love for nature and conservation.

 

If it crawls, flies, hops, blooms, or buzzes, there's a good chance we're excited about it. We look forward to connecting you to the natural world that sustains human life.

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IONS organized a garlic mustard pull at Crawford Lake Conservation Area with the CH Education Team.

Mission

Our mission is to inspire curiosity, appreciation, and stewardship of the natural world by sharing knowledge, fostering community, and encouraging people to connect with nature in meaningful ways.

Feeling Inspired?

Click the events tab to join us on our next adventure.

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We are based in Southern Ontario and we are fortunate to call one of Canada's most ecologically diverse regions home.

As naturalists, we recognize that these lands have been cared for by Indigenous Peoples since time immemorial. We acknowledge that this land is the traditional territory of the Wendat and Haudenosaunee and that the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation as treaty holders of this land.

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Cool events that connect you to the science & wonder of nature.
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