Invasive Species Awareness Week (ISAW) 2026 will take place Feb. 23 to March 1, 2026. The goal of this week is to come together to increase awareness about the impacts of invasive species and how we can protect natural spaces.

Get ready for the upcoming ISAW campaign! We offer a FREE toolkit with promotional graphics such as headers, email signatures, and save the dates; social media captions and graphics; free-use photos you can use to make your own posts; and more.

How Your Organization Can Participate: 

You and/or your organization can choose to participate in one or a combination of the ways below: -*

  1. Like and share/retweet posts created by participating organizations using the hashtag #InvSpWk
  2. Create your own invasive species content using the daily themes as a guide and share it using the hashtag #InvSpWk. Feel free to adapt them with links to your own content. 
  3. Download high-quality promotional images, including daily graphics, digital headers, and an email signature from the ISAW Toolkit and image folder and share them on your social media channels and/or website. Feel free to adapt these graphics by adding your own organizational logo. NEW THIS YEAR, we’ve added a library of free-use images that you can use to create your own posts that fit your organization’s brand standards. 
  4. Participate in an ISAW event to learn more about invasive species and how you can help prevent the spread:
  • Invasive Species Knowledge Quiz | Hosted by Ducks Unlimited Canada | Feb. 23 – March 1 | More details coming soon!
  • Forestry in the Classroom for grades 4-8 | Monday, Feb. 23 at 1 p.m. ET | Presented by Forests Canada | Register here
  • From Knowledge to Action Symposium
    • Ask your questions to a panel of experts!
    • Thursday, Feb. 26, from 1 to 3 p.m. ET
    • Attendees will be automatically entered to win an outdoor gear prize pack valued at $250! Available to residents of Canada, must be 18+ and present at the time of the draw to win. Full contest rules and regulations are available here
    • Register here

Access the toolkit here.

Together, our actions help raise awareness about the importance of preventing the spread of invasive species. 

The Invasive Species Centre and our partners lead this annual campaign in Canada to help raise awareness about the threat that invasive species pose to our natural heritage. Each year, many organizations support Invasive Species Awareness Week to make it a huge success.  

Thank you for taking part in Invasive Species Awareness Week and everything you do to protect the land and water from invasive species! 

ISAW Partner Group