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The Canadian Parks & Wilderness Society would like to thank you for your invitation to comment about the future of Little Limestone Lake Provincial Park. We are generally pleased with the Little Limestone Lake Provincial Park draft management plan. Thanks to Mosakahiken Cree Nation, CPAWS was given the opportunity to

CPAWS recently sent our comments to the Manitoba government about how to keep Little Limestone Lake – the biggest and best colour-changing lake on earth – healthy and well forever. The most important recommendation we are making is for the government to get moving on its commitment to explore expanding

First Nation’s plans approved January 14, 2013 “We are delighted the plans have been approved through legislation,” said Ron Thiessen, executive director of the Canadian Parks & Wilderness Society’s Manitoba chapter. “The thousands of square kilometers of wild lands and waters that are now protected in their natural state is

CPAWS congratulates Chief David Crate of Fisher River Cree Nation for receiving the prestigious Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Award. The award was given to him for his many contributions and outstanding service to his community. CPAWS worked with Chief Crate and Fisher River Cree Nation to establish the Fisher Bay provincial

The provincial government is asking you to share your thoughts about the future of Manitoba’s Little Limestone Lake – the biggest and best colour-changing waterbody on earth! Comment period ends January 7th.CPAWS and our partners Mosakahiken Cree Nation worked to ensure Little Limestone Lake provincial park was established in 2011.

CPAWS Manitoba has provided our input into the draft Tomorrownow – Manitoba’s Green Plan. Our key recommendations are: 1) The Manitoba government embraces the opportunity to create a large landscape scale conservation framework that is based on “protect, connect, restore and monitor.” Protect an adequate network of core protected areas;

Conservation and Water Stewardship Minister Gord Mackintosh spoke to a full house of environmentally concerned citizens at a forum to discuss Manitoba’s draft Green Plan Tomorrownow. “It was great to see so many people at the event. As the deadline for public input to the Green Plan draws near, it’s

Fortunately, in Manitoba we don’t have to consider placing a big fence around our threatened woodland caribou populations to prevent them from going locally extinct, as is currently being considered in Alberta. We just need to ensure that their habitat is properly protected. We are blessed to still have vast

Ottawa — The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) welcomes the release today of the final federal Boreal Woodland Caribou Recovery Strategy. Overall, CPAWS notes an improvement from the draft recovery strategy released in August 2011, particularly in the way it proposes to manage the most imperilled caribou ranges. However,

The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society – Manitoba Chapter is pleased to offer our 2013 Boreal Wilderness Calendar! Enjoy a year of beautiful landscapes and wild creatures as you are educated on some of the most important conservation issues facing the province. All proceeds go to the CPAWS Manitoba chapter

Manitoba Eco-Network, Canadian Parks & Wilderness Society, and the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Winnipeg invite you to a public forum on the Government of Manitoba’s new environmental plan, TomorrowNow.

The public debate has largely centered on the question of where do we erect a Bipole III major hydro transmission line – on the east or west side of the province? Now we are asking the most important questions, the ones we should have discussed first. To build or not