Protect Nature Challenge

Want to do more to help protect nature? Great! Now’s the time.

It’s through everyday actions that we can all come together and make a real difference in protecting nature.

The Government of Canada is committed to protecting 30 percent of Canada’s lands and 30 percent of its oceans by 2030, but we can’t do it alone. We need you, Indigenous Peoples, provinces, territories, private businesses, not-for-profits and others to join in the effort.

Protect Nature Challenge

Start today by following the 31 Protect Nature Challenges. Choose a few actions that you can include in your daily life. Every action counts!

Soon, you’ll be feeling healthier, saving money, producing less waste and feeling good about the changes you’re making for nature!

Let’s do this together

Share these challenges with your friends and family and show us what you are doing by tagging us in your social media messages and by using the hashtag #ProtectNature.

We’re on Facebook @EnvironmentandClimateChange, Instagram @canenvironment and Twitter @environmentca.

We challenge you to

1. Get outside
2. Clean up nature
3. Rethink your consumer habits
4. Protect our trees
5. Take time in nature every day
6. Become a citizen scientist
7. Build a pollinator garden
8. Protect birds
9. Get young people involved
10. Donate ecologically sensitive land
11. Improve air quality
12. Save money and save nature
13. Learn about the top five threats to nature
14. Shrink your food waste
15. Fight climate change
16. Beat plastic pollution
17. Learn from Indigenous Peoples how to conserve nature
18. Become part of the circular economy
19. Contribute, volunteer or choose a career to protect nature
20. Avoid buying exotic and endangered wildlife
21. Help species at risk
22. Protect biodiversity from home
23. Slow down for turtles and other wildlife
24. Build homes for wildlife
25. Find funding for your innovative ideas
26. Share what you are doing
27. Support protected and conserved areas
28. Fall in love with nature
29. Dispose of toxic chemicals, electronics and light bulbs properly
30. Protect our wetlands
31. Stop waste