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Quietly disappearing near you
These are the named species at risk within range of Ontario. See what is at stake, then pick the plants that bring them back, all on one page.
Within range of Ontario · High opportunity
At risk in Ontario, and within range of your garden. Your yard is one of the things that brings them back.
A Monarch can only raise its young on milkweed. No milkweed, no Monarchs. It's that simple, and that fixable.
Once common across eastern North America, now almost gone. It feeds on wild bergamot and asters, flowers any yard can grow.
The bees it relies on need these same native blooms. Plant for one, and you feed both.
This endangered butterfly can only raise its young on New Jersey Tea. Plant the shrub, save the butterfly.
Disease wiped out most of them. A single bat eats thousands of insects a night, the ones night-blooming natives raise.
Its flute-like song is fading from our woods. Native shrubs raise the caterpillars it needs to feed its chicks.
A bird that once nested on every farm, now threatened. Native plants feed the flying insects it catches on the wing.
It feeds entirely on flying insects. Every native flowering patch is more food in the air it hunts.
Photos: Photo by Derek Ramsey, GFDL 1.2 · Photo by USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab, public domain · Photo by Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Photo by Benny Mazur, CC BY 2.0 · Photo by Marvin Moriarty/USFWS, public domain · Photo by Mdf, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Photo by Malene Thyssen, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Photo by John, CC BY 2.0
The plants that bring back the most
Communities bringing habitat back in Ontario
Public, shareable snapshots of the native habitat residents have planted, town by town. Open one on your phone and send it to your councillor or MP.
Enter your postal code and pick a few plants. You'll see the species at risk your yard could support, where your season has bloom gaps, and the one plant to add next.
See what your yard could bring back
Enter your postal code or ZIP and we'll show you which species at risk your garden could support with the right native plants.
