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Manitoba Nature Notebook

Welcome to our Manitoba Nature Notebook Blog, where conservation meets curiosity.

Explore stories, insights, and updates focused on protecting Manitoba's lands and waters. Through campaign updates, hike highlights, and inspiring nature fun, we aim to deepen your connection to Manitoba and empower you to take action.

Whether you’re a student, educator, or nature enthusiast, join us in learning, protecting, and celebrating the places we call home—one blog post at a time.

Visit every Friday for a new story. 

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    November 15th, 2010

    Deteriorating rivers, lakes neglected, reports find

    OTTAWA—Canada’s lakes and rivers are awash in harmful contaminants, but new documents warn the federal government’s murky understanding of the problem is putting the country at risk. Senior bureaucrats reached that conclusion in a pair of internal reports on contaminants and excess nutrients in freshwater. The officials warned Ottawa needs
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    November 9th, 2010

    UNESCO approval is $20-M fund’s goal

    Sophia Rabliauskas says future employment for First Nations people is at stake. (Photo by [email protected]) Five First Nations communities on the east side of Lake Winnipeg hope you open your wallet to help tell the world their ancestral home is worthy of a United Nations world heritage designation. The goal
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    November 4th, 2010

    NDP awarded for effort to protect the east side

    CANADA’S environmental groups handed Premier Greg Selinger a first-ever award Monday night for his government’s work in protecting the east side of the province from hydro development. The inaugural Environmental Leadership Award was presented at a reception at the legislative building at the same time angry farmers filled a committee
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    November 4th, 2010

    Chief David Crate Receives Prairie Crocus Award

    Chief David Crate of Fisher River Cree Nation Chief David Crate of Fisher River Cree Nation was recently awarded Nature Manitoba’s Prairie Crocus Award for his efforts to establish a Fisher Bay provincial park in the south Interlake region of Manitoba. CPAWS congratulates Chief Crate and we look forward to
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    October 29th, 2010

    Help save caribou, groups urge province

    An international conference dedicated to the preservation of worldwide caribou herds and habitat ended Thursday with local advocates urging Manitoba’s government to act. Representatives of at least two Manitoba groups offered ideas to the province to prevent the species’ decline. The woodland caribou is a threatened species in Canada. “Caribou
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    October 29th, 2010

    East side preservation inspiring

    Manitobans have the rare opportunity to make a profoundly positive choice that will resonate across Canada and around the world by showing their support of the UNESCO World Heritage bid on the east side of Lake Winnipeg. Pimachiowin Aki Inc. and the Manitoba government are working to achieve UNESCO World
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    October 26th, 2010

    Manitoba chief honoured for provincial park campaign

    The pursuit of a provincial park has earned one Manitoba chief a Prairie Crocus prize. Chief David Crate of the Fisher River Cree Nation will receive Nature Manitoba’s Prairie Crocus Award in recognition of his leadership in the campaign to establish a new provincial park around Fisher Bay on Lake
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    October 25th, 2010

    Environmental groups give Manitoba an award

    Today, 10 leading environmental groups gave the Manitoba government and Indigenous partners on the east side of Lake Winnipeg an award for their work to promote the creation of an UNESCO world heritage site in this spectacular tract of intact boreal forest.
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    October 20th, 2010

    Major U.N. Report: Failure to Price Nature’s Value Undermines the Economy

    OTTAWA, Oct. 19 /CNW/ – The largest-ever global study on The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) is being released today in Nagoya, Japan, at the Convention on Biodiversity’s 10th Conference of the Parties.  The study, Mainstreaming the Economics of Nature, was led by a top international banker (Pavan Sukhdev)
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    October 20th, 2010

    Canada’s biodiversity under attack, federal-provincial report finds

    The most comprehensive report ever on the state of Canada’s biodiversity calls for action to ‘‘maintain functioning ecosystems” from B.C.‘s forests to the Prairies grasslands to the St. Lawrence River. The report, Canadian biodiversity: ecosystem status and trends 2010, was quietly posted on the web Friday by the federal, provincial
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    October 15th, 2010

    Forging a Landmark Agreement To Save Canada’s Boreal Forest

    Last spring, conservation groups and timber companies signed an historic agreement to protect a large swath of Canada’s boreal forest. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, the Pew Environment Group’s Steven E. Kallick, a key player in the agreement, explains why the accord is integral to a larger plan
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    October 12th, 2010

    Province stalling on designating wilderness park: Fisher River chief

    The chief of Fisher River Cree Nation says the province is stalling on a plan to establish a provincial park at Fisher Bay. In a release issued today FRCN and Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) say the province is attempting to back down on its commitment to designate a
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