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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 30th, 2009

Progress made on east side road

THE new all-season road to Berens River on the east side of Lake Winnipeg inched a little closer to being built Thursday. An environmental impact assessment was filed by the province’s East Side Road Authority to Manitoba Conservation for review. The road is to be built from Manigatogan north to

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November 30th, 2009

Contaminated mining environments: It’s better to be green

Waste Rock and Tailings When a mining company wants to dig up specific minerals, it has to remove rock from the earth to do so. Any rock removed that does not contain economic amounts of the wanted mineral is called waste rock. Mining companies put this waste rock in piles

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November 30th, 2009

Starving Polar Bears Resort to Cannibalism: Global Warming to Blame?

Shrinking sea ice may be to blame for recent polar bear cannibalism incidents in Canada. Eight cases of adult polar bears eating bear cubs and other bears near Churchill, Manitoba, have been reported. Four of the cases were reported to Environment Canada and four to Manitoba Conservation. While adult male

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November 30th, 2009

Most Canadians agree warming planet is a defining crisis that demands action: survey

OTTAWA – Most Canadians think climate change is the planet’s defining crisis, a new poll suggests. But the survey also indicates that nearly two-thirds of those surveyed think humans will be able to adapt to it, and about half believe the money Canada spends on climate change would be better

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November 30th, 2009

Manitoba Makes Forest Count

Manitoba Lieutenant Governor Phillip S. Lee delivered today’s Speech from the Throne During today’s Throne Speech, the Manitoba government announced it will fully incorporate forestry into Manitoba’s Climate Change Plan. This action, which CPAWS has been encouraging for years, is supported by research that demonstrates the value of Boreal forests

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November 27th, 2009

A message from Bou on Climate Change and Forests

Some people ask me “Bou, why the heck is a Boreal woodland caribou involved in the Make Forests Count campaign”. Well, the big picture answer is that climate change is threat to all living things on this planet, humans, ungulates (that’s me), and others. But for me it’s even more

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November 13th, 2009

CPAWS at Poplar River Youth Camp

Chanda and I have recently returned from an enriching and enlightening trip to Weaver Lake in Poplar River First Nation’s traditional territory. Nestled within the intact wilderness on the east side of Lake Winnipeg, the Poplar River community is working to protect 8000 square kilometers of their traditional lands and

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November 4th, 2009

Blaikie New Conservation Minister

As a part of Premier Selinger’s cabinet shuffle today, Bill Blaikie became Manitoba’s latest Conservation Minister. Bill Blaikie has served the NDP party for the last 10 years. He was elected as Member of the Manitoba Legislative Assembly for Elmwood in 2009. Prior to that, he was a Member of

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October 27th, 2009

Re: Pleading for climate control, (Oct. 25.)

It was heartwarming to see so many citizens gathered at the Legislative Building on Saturday to convince our political leaders to take tough action on climate change. While the Manitoba government is making strong efforts to reduce CO2 emissions, their plan is incomplete. It is critical to include large-scale boreal

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October 25th, 2009

Meditation Lake Camp Proposal Abandoned

After initiatives involving the Wilderness Committee, CPAWS, and concerned citizens, the province and Tim Hortons have abandoned plans to develop a kid’s camp on Meditation Lake in Whiteshell provincial park. CPAWS opposed the location of the proposed Tim Horton’s kid’s camp for the following reasons: unnecessarily increasing access to an

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October 25th, 2009

Pleading for climate control

Colin Crolly hopes, for the sake of his two young children, that governments and people around the world can be persuaded to do a 180 to get to 350 on climate change. “My generation has messed things up,” Crolly said Saturday while listening to speakers at a climate-change rally on

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October 25th, 2009

Meditation Lake kids camp scuttled

A plan by Tim Hortons to open a youth camp in the Whiteshell has been scuttled by the province because of water concerns. Conservation Minister Stan Struthers and the Tim Horton Children’s Foundation said Thursday they plan to look for another site in the Whiteshell for the year-round camp for