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Manitoba Nature Notebook

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January 12th, 2012

Big wilderness protected by Bloodvein plan

The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) is cheering the protection of a huge area of Manitoba’s Boreal Forest announced today. The vast area on the east side of Lake Winnipeg is home to Bloodvein First Nation. They worked with the province to develop a land use plan that is

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January 10th, 2012

Big Protection Needed For Peat, No Mining In Parks

Like many Manitobans, I believe provincial parks are no place for industrial activities, including peat mining. Parks are special places that should be fully protected for future generations of people and wildlife. In fact, experts are telling us we need significantly more protected lands to maintain Earth’s life-support systems and

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December 30th, 2011

PROVINCE TO EXPAND, IMPROVE MANITOBA PROVINCIAL PARK’S FACILITIES, EQUIPMENT

Better Parks, Recreation Opportunities For Manitoba Families: Chomiak Manitoba families will enjoy recreational opportunities, programming and facilities in provincial parks with modest user fee increases, Conservation Minister Dave Chomiak announced today. “In other places, we’ve seen parks actually close with the downturn in the economy,” said Chomiak. “In our province,

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December 23rd, 2011

PROVINCE INVITES PUBLIC TO PROVIDE COMMENTS ON CARIBOU ACTION PLANS

Manitobans are invited to provide feedback and input on draft action plans to protect boreal woodland caribou populations in the eastern parts of the province, Conservation Minister Dave Chomiak announced today. “Boreal woodland caribou are a threatened species, and the Owl-Flintstone and Atikaki-Berens caribou populations are particularly vulnerable,” said Chomiak.

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December 23rd, 2011

Plans for Protecting Caribou Released!

The province asks for public comment on plans to protect two caribou ranges on the east side of Lake Winnipeg CPAWS is pleased the draft plans acknowledge the need to protect caribou habitat. We hope the final plans will specify that these protected areas need to be large. Caribou are

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December 16th, 2011

Manitoba’s Cougar

By Bryce Hoye Source: The Manitoban A look into the provinces largest, most elusive wildcat Manitoba's cougarAre there resident breeding populations of cougar in Manitoba? “The answer is a resounding . . . maybe,” according to Bill Watkins while presiding over a crowd of engaged university students and science professionals

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December 16th, 2011

Another climate ditherer

Get ready, Canada, for another Fossil of the Year Award from international environmental groups that worry about global warming and think Canada is one of the major villains in that climate war. And that award will not be entirely undeserved. If there was any corner Canadian Environment Minister Peter Kent

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October 24th, 2011

GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES BROKENHEAD WETLAND INTERPRETIVE TRAIL

New Trail to Make Wetlands More Accessible to Public While Protecting Environment: Selinger A new, $1-million interpretive trail and boardwalk next to the Brokenhead Wetland Ecological Reserve will make the wetlands more accessible and highlight many of their unique and rare features, Premier Greg Selinger announced today. “This new resource

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October 19th, 2011

Canada’s boreal caribou need federal government’s help

HALIFAX, N.S.—The woodland caribou of Canada’s vast boreal forest are in trouble. Listed as nationally “threatened” under the federal Species At Risk Act, many local caribou populations are in steep decline from the Yukon to Labrador, and in some places, appear to be in free-fall. Their range has also shrunk

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October 7th, 2011

Tour Canada’s Boreal Forest

Spanning 1.2 billion acres, Canada’s boreal forest is the largest intact forest ecosystem on the planet. This unique environment is home to hundreds of species of migratory fish and birds, and contains carbon-rich soil and permafrost critical to the fight against global warming.

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October 3rd, 2011

CPAWS Survey Reveals Parties’ Views on Wilderness and Wildlife Protection

All but one of the provincial political parties have responded to a survey from the Manitoba chapter of the Canadian Parks & Wilderness Society (CPAWS), released today. The Conservative Party did not participate. The survey asked questions about conserving the Boreal wilderness region, completing the Protected Areas Initiative, protecting woodland

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September 29th, 2011

Protecting the Bloodvein River

Bald eagles soar over Manitoba’s Bloodvein River and a forest of lichen-draped Jack pines and mattress-thick moss. Piloted by grinning guides who shout at one another in Ojibwa, our boats splash through a series of churning rapids en route to an ancient rock painting on a granite cliff.