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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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October 5th, 2009

Park Reserves Renewed

The Chitek Lake and Poplar/Nanowin Rivers park reserves have received a five year extension of their protection from industrial developments. A park reserve is an area placed in interim protection while a decision making process ensues to determine a permanent designation. The park reserve process obligates the province to consult

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October 1st, 2009

CPAWS Asks Premier Doer to “Make Forests Count” at Global Climate Change Summit

The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society is asking Premier Doer to “Make Forests Count” at the Governors’ Global Climate Summit 2, On the Road to Copenhagen, which continues today and tomorrow in Los Angeles. To date, the Manitoba government has left protection of the Boreal Region’s carbon stores out of

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September 29th, 2009

Paper industry needs “fundamental change” to survive, says activist

North America’s paper industry “absolutely has to fundamentally change” to survive both the ecological challenges and business upheavals it currently faces, says one of Canada’s leading environmentalists. Nicole Rycroft, executive director of Vancouver-based Canopy (formerly Markets Initiative), spoke with Design Edge Canada last week after the environmental organization held two

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September 25th, 2009

Lake-cleanup plan panned

The city’s original plan to clean up its waste water simply won’t help heal Lake Winnipeg, and it’s worth spending millions more to do it right, the province said Thursday.“We haven’t asked the city to do anything we’re not willing to help pay for,” said Conservation Minister Stan Struthers. A

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September 23rd, 2009

Data Reveals Habitat of Threatened Caribou at Imminent Risk from Logging

Newly released government data uncovers woodland caribou living in an area between Thompson and The Pas that is scheduled for intensive logging operations. As suitable habitat for caribou in the area is limited, large-scale industrial forestry activities may lead to the demise of the local population. The Canadian Parks and

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September 22nd, 2009

NDP Party Stands United on Keeping BiPole III Hydro Corridor Away From East Side

The recent accounts in the Winnipeg Free Press that Manitoba NDP leadership candidate Andrew Swan, if elected, will reconsider the party’s decision to run a major hydro corridor down the east side of Lake Winnipeg are false. It’s important to note that the reports in the Winnipeg Free Press indicating

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September 15th, 2009

Province delivers cash to northern climate research

The province will spend $6 million over the next four years towards climatic and wildlife research in Manitoba’s north. Science, Technology and Energy and Mines Minister Jim Rondeau said today the funding will go towards the Churchill Northern Studies Centre (CNSC). The money will be used to finish renovations at

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September 15th, 2009

Provincial park logging road building license appealed

The Wilderness Committee, Canada’s largest environmental citizen group, filed a formal appeal of the environmental license issued to build a logging road across Grass River Provincial Park in northwestern Manitoba. Tolko Industries applied to the Manitoba government in March 2008 for a license to build an all-weather logging road across

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September 11th, 2009

Fisher River Cree Nation: Guardians of Mother Earth

Growing up in Manitoba’s Interlake, you can’t help but have an appreciation of the wilderness around you. If you are away from it for any period of time, the lake itself calls to you. Its influence is age old and bone deep. Fisher River Cree Nation (FRCN) understands this connection

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September 11th, 2009

Polar bear, arctic fox, caribou hurt by climate change

CHICAGO (AFP) – Polar bear cubs, the arctic fox and caribou herds are among the victims of dramatic changes in the Arctic due to climate change, a study published Thursday found. “Species on land and at sea are suffering adverse consequences of human behavior at latitudes thousands of miles away,”

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September 11th, 2009

Cottagers upset by sewage spill

The province says it was just a trickle, but cottagers in the Whiteshell say a sewage lagoon has overflowed onto a popular beach and into the Winnipeg River. “It’s just totally unacceptable,” said Doug Petrick, a cottager near Dorothy Lake. Petrick says the lagoon started overflowing at the end of

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September 8th, 2009

Canada’s sickest lake

Cisco! Walleye! Whiteﬁsh! From the foredeck of the MV Namao, a scientific research vessel on Lake Winnipeg, student-scientists in rubber boots and banana-yellow hard hats are calling out the catch. They’ve also landed trout, perch and emerald shiners, whose weight, stomach contents, skin tissues and isotopic concentrations will help gauge