The Canadian Wilderness Stewardship Program brings together youth participants from three Indigenous communities in Manitoba.
Filling Our Imaginations with Nature For I Love to Read Month
See our list of 100 nature-themed children’s books for I Love to Read Month to read as a family safe at home.
Rescuing Ourselves — and Our Kids — From a Pandemic of Screen Time: Get Outside
While dealing with COVID-19, we have inadvertently amplified nature-deficit disorder in youth. Thankfully, there’s a simple solution: get outside.
CPAWS Manitoba Launches Outdoor Learning Program
The CPAWS Manitoba Outdoor Learning Program is aimed at educators and families interested in environmental topics and learning outdoors.
Northern species in danger
The situation in western Hudson Bay is a prime example of why Canada needs to triple ocean habitat protection. Manitoba has lost a third of its polar bear population in the past two decades and beluga whales in western Hudson Bay have been on Canada’s species-at-risk list since 2004.
CPAWS Partner Chief David Crate Inducted in Order of Canada
CPAWS Manitoba wishes to congratulate long-time partner in conservation Chief David Crate of Fisher River Cree Nation, who was recently inducted in the Order of Canada for his vision and leadership.
Indigenous Knowledge and Conserving Caribou
Ernie Bussidor of Sayisi Dene First Nation and CPAWS MB Executive Director Ron Thiessen went to the North American Caribou Workshop in Ottawa.
TAKE ACTION: Manitoba government misses caribou protection deadlines
Eight years. That’s how long it’s been since the Manitoba government missed its first self-imposed deadline to protect our threatened caribou. A federal deadline came and went nearly a year ago. To make matters worse, the province still has not even scheduled key consultations. And our sources indicate that the province’s end-of-2018 deadline may also slip by with no plans in place.
Keeping water healthy (letter to the Editor)
We are blessed as a nation with an abundance of fresh water, yet we are squandering this life-giving resource. One only needs to look at the algae blooms menacing Lake Winnipeg to understand that our water stewardship is inadequate.
Success! Amisk Park Reserve Spared from Industrial Roads and Drills
Your voice is needed to tell the Manitoba government to secure a healthy future for a massive wildlife haven near Thompson
Let’s not make the same mistake again
Guest blog post by volunteer Kati Nagy
Manitoba is my home. I grew up thinking that Winnipeg and the southern part of the province was farmland for a long time. Images of settlers in a distant past Laura Ingalls style came to mind, creating this farmland. Perhaps you were like me, shocked to realize that an entire ecosystem had been thriving here for eons before this land was converted into farms.
Annual Parks Report outlines roadmap for meeting land and freshwater protection in Manitoba
Winnipeg – The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) released its annual Parks Report today, What’s Next: Parks and Protected Areas to 2020 and Beyond, which recommends how governments in Canada – federal, provincial, territorial and Indigenous – can work together to almost double our current protected areas to achieve our international commitment to protect at least 17% of our landscape by 2020, and to plan for the longer-term work needed to reverse the catastrophic and ongoing decline in nature. Canada has the biggest opportunity in a generation to protect nature – and this report provides a roadmap for action.