Skip to content

Our Mission

To ignite curiosity and respect for our natural world through accessible, interactive and educational programs.

Nature Facts

The white-tailed deer has 4 stomachs! These deer also mark their territory by rubbing bark off trees.

Frogs, toads, newts, and Salamanders are amphibians, meaning they have an aquatic gill-breathing larval stage, followed by a terrestrial lung-breathing adult stage, but some amphibians stay in an aquatic habitat and keep their gills as an adult such as the Axolotl!

The Muskrat is a semi aquatic rodent that lives in wetlands! We have some living at Heartland Forest, they can be seen at the fishpond, and can swim underwater for roughly 15 minutes on average!

Heartland Forest is home to 10 amphibians, and 4 reptile species! A person who studies reptiles and amphibians are called a herpetologist.

Click Here For Info On Ticks and Lyme Disease

Thank You
to Our Sponsors
Bosch
Canada Post Community Foundation
Harry Foster Foundation
Lloyd-Carr-Harris Foundation
McCall MacBain
Niagara Community Foundation
Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation
Ontario Power Generation
Ontario Trillium Foundation
Stamford Kiwanis
Syensqo
TD Friends of the Environment Foundation
Unity for Autism
Wise Guys Charity
Ontario
To Top