DRCC Celebration for BUI #5
Thu, May 14
|Windsor
Join the DRCC for an environmental milestone celebration!
Time & Location
May 14, 2026, 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Windsor, 5200 Matchett Rd, Windsor, ON N9C 4E8, Canada
About the event
Join the DRCC and partners on May 14 2026 at the Ojibway Nature Centre from 5pm to 7pm for a special celebration as a new recovery milestone was met for the Detroit River.
The event will highlight the monitoring and research efforts that were undertaken for six indicator species of the Detroit River ecosystem. The Bird or Animal Deformities or Reproductive Problems Beneficial Use Impairment (BUI) #5 was submitted to the federal and provincial governments for change in status from impaired to not impaired in March 2025. In summary, six studies on were completed since 2008 including Northern Leopard Frogs, Black-crowned Night-Herons, Snapping Turtles, Double-crested Cormorants and Herring Gulls and Tree Swallows. Overall. there is little evidence for impairment on reproduction associated with contaminant-induced effects within the AOC. In June 2025, BUI #5 was redesignated to ‘not impaired’.
The event is nature focused to celebrate the tremendous diversity of the…