Hundreds of thousands of students and educators are making a difference for wildlife and nature!
From coast to coast to coast, Canada is bursting with natural riches, diverse species and varied ecosystems that sustain us and provide benefits essential for a healthy life. To show our appreciation, let’s take care of nature so it can continue taking care of us. Every fall, WWF-Canada invites students, faculty, staff and educators to share their best ideas that will help nature thrive.
WWF-Canada’s Go Wild Grants program is in partnership with The Barrett Family Foundation.
Primary schools play an important role in connecting students with nature and empowering them to make a difference for wildlife in their communities through educational, hands-on projects. Since 2015, Canadian primary schools have been going wild with WWF-Canada, leading projects that help build a future where people and nature thrive.
Since 2015, Canadian secondary schools have been going wild with WWF-Canada, creating leadership opportunities and student experiences in building a sustainable future.
Since 2017, over 65 Go Wild projects have launched on campuses across Canada. Faculty, staff and students are leading initiatives to help nature thrive locally while inspiring their peers to walk the talk at their college, university or CEGEP.
Go Wild Grants are designed to help students and educators protect and restore habitat on school and campus grounds, for the benefit of wildlife and people. Previous grantees have created native pollinator gardens and seed orchards, restored creeks and forests, monitored local wildlife, conducted biodiversity inventories, raised awareness about conservation issues, and more!
We prioritize ideas that help school communities to:
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Appleby College – Oakville, Ontario, Mother Earth’s Garden
Arrow Heights Elementary – Revelstoke, British Columbia, Native Tree Planting and Ecosystem Restoration
Biidaaban Kinoomaagegamik – Sagamok Anishnawbek, Ontario, Biidaaban Kinoomaagegamik Pollinator Project
Boston Bar Elementary Secondary – Boston Bar, British Columbia, N?eye tk tmixwkt (“Here on Our Land” in the language of the Nlaka’pamux peoples)
Collège Churchill High School – Winnipeg, Manitoba, Churchill Courtyard Native Habitat Restoration Project
Cuffman Street Elementary – Fredericton, New Brunswick, The Orange Butterfly Initiative: Monarch Meadow
Des Trois-Sources – Châteauguay, Québec, Sources et Semences
École Christine Morrison Elementary – Mission, British Columbia, Forest Classroom Rehabilitation Project
École Claudette-Bradshaw – Moncton, Nouveau-Brunswick, Les plantes indigènes
École Crane – Winnipeg, Manitoba, Growing A Knowledge Garden
École Dr-Marguerite-Michaud – Bouctouche, Nouveau-Brunswick, Jardin des pollinisateurs
École élémentaire catholique Sainte-Croix – Tiny, Ontario, Un jardin pour les monarques!
École Héritage – Falher, Alberta, Haie nourricière
École secondaire Chanoine-Beaudet – St-Pascal, Québec, Apprendre l’importance de la biodiversité en observant et identifiant la nature
École secondaire Kelvin High School – Winnipeg, Manitoba, Jardin communautaire de plantes indigènes
École Sir-James-Douglas Elementary School – Victoria, British Columbia, Perennial plants for pollinators
Edgehill Elementary – Powell River, British Columbia, Eco School Action Promoting Biodiversity and Wildlife
Espanola High School – Espanola, Ontario, Spartan Pollinator Refuge
Evans Elementary – Chilliwack, British Columbia, Indigenous Garden
Fern Avenue Junior and Senior Public School – Toronto, Ontario, Nature in the City: Connecting Students and Community Members to Native Plants in Roncesvalles Village
Goose Lake High – Roblin, Manitoba, Reconciliation Park
Highgate Public School – Markham, Ontario, Highgate’s Flutter and Bloom Learning Garden
Hugh John MacDonald – Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sacred Medicine Grows Here
Kikendawt Kinoomaadii Gamig – Dokis First Nation, Ontario, Indigenous Food Sovereignty
Maple Grove Elementary – Vancouver, British Columbia, Arbutus Greenway Project
Niitsitapi Learning Centre – Calgary, Alberta, Building Dreams
Nisichawayasihk Neyo Ohtinwak Collegiate – Nelson House, Manitoba, Operation Bees
Otetiskewin Kiskinwamahto-wekamik School – Nelson House, Manitoba, Courtyard Project
Oxford Regional Education Centre – Oxford, Nova Scotia, Wildflower and Pollinator Garden Spaces
Pierre Elliott Trudeau Elementary School – Gatineau, Québec, Native Sensory Garden: An Opportunity to Reconnect with the Land
Public Alternative Secondary School – Windsor, Ontario, PASS Outdoor Environmental Education Classroom
Quinte Mohawk Elementary School – Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, Ontario, School Boundary Mini-Ecosystem Planting
Qwam Qwum Stuwixwulh – Nanaimo, British Columbia, Hay ch q’u tumuxw (Thank you land, earth, world)
River West Park School – Winnipeg, Manitoba, Prairie Blossom Haven
St. Cyril School – Calgary, Alberta, Indigenous School Garden
Sunshine Academy – Dollard des Ormeaux, Québec, The Bee Hive
Vanier Public School – Brockville, Ontario, Growing Together: Vanier’s Climate Resilient School Project
Victoria School for Ideal Education – Victoria, British Columbia, Micro Forest at VSIE
W.P. Wagner High School – Edmonton, Alberta, ReWilding Wagner
Wasauksing Kinomaugewgamik – Parry Sound, Ontario, Mshkiki Gitigan (Medicine Garden)
West View School – Calgary, Alberta, West View School & CYOC Healing Garden
Westmount Charter School – Calgary, Alberta, School Garden
Whitby Shores Public School – Whitby, Ontario, Restore the “Rainforest”
British Columbia Institute of Technology – Burnaby, British Columbia, From Parking Lot to Pollinator Garden
Cégep de Saint-Laurent – Montréal, Québec, La biodiversité à St-Lô
Collège André-Grasset – Montréal, Québec, Plantation de plantes et fleurs médicinales (éducation – transformation – rayonnement dans la communauté)
Dalhousie University – Halifax, Nova Scotia, Sustaining Native Pollinator Habitats and Expanding Biodiversity
Fleming College – Lindsay, Ontario, Biodiversity on Display!
Mohawk College – Hamilton, Ontario, Fennell Campus Bioswale
Queen’s University – Kingston, Ontario, Indigenous Sacred Medicine Garden
Seneca Polytechnic – Toronto, Ontario, Enhancing No-Mow Zones for a Greener Campus
Thompson Rivers University – Kamloops, British Columbia, Native Plant Restoration and Ethnobotanical Uses
Toronto Metropolitan University – Toronto, Ontario, Toronto Metropollinator Garden
Trent University – Peterborough, Ontario, Revitalization of high mowed water drainage areas
University of Ottawa – Ottawa, Ontario, Increasing native pollinator habitats and biodiversity at uOttawa
University of Waterloo – Waterloo, Ontario, The Pollinator Garden Project
Western University – London, Ontario, Wampum Learning Lodge Medicine Garden Shkaatgoons Project
York University – Toronto, Ontario, Boosting Biodiversity: Enhancing Pollinator Habitats in York University’s Native Plant Garden and Maloca Community Garden
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