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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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September 4th, 2009

PARK RESERVATIONS UP DESPITE COOL, WET SUMMER: STRUTHERS

Manitoba’s provincial parks are experiencing an upswing in reservations, despite cooler temperatures this summer, Conservation Minister Stan Struthers announced today. According to the parks reservation system, there have been 58,111 reservations to date this year, an 8.6 per cent increase over the same period last year. “I’m very pleased to

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August 20th, 2009

Environmentalists pan new road through Grass River provincial park

WINNIPEG – Local environmentalists and politicians say the Doer government has back-pedalled on new legislation that bans logging in provincial parks by approving a new road in Grass River Provincial Park for logging trucks. Eric Reder of the Wilderness Committee and Gail Whelan Enns of Manitoba Wildlands say the road,

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July 17th, 2009

Progress on Canada’s parks slows in 2009

Ottawa – In The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, its second annual review of the state of Canada’s parks, the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) reports that the pace of new parks creation slowed significantly in the past 12 months compared to 2008, which it had hailed as

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July 13th, 2009

David Suzuki’s Science Matters: Celebrating our natural wealth on Canada Day

We often write about the challenges facing Canada – the lack of a credible plan to address climate change, the over reliance on tar sands to fuel our energy needs and economy, the snail’s pace with which we work to protect endangered species and their habitat, including iconic wildlife like

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July 13th, 2009

Heritage bid gets $30,000 from U.S. foundation

WINNIPEG — An American charitable foundation is giving $30,000 to help secure a UNESCO World heritage designation for Manitoba’s boreal forest. The Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has donated the money to the University of Winnipeg on condition that it be used to help the First Nation

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June 30th, 2009

Caribou fight for habitat

Want to see a woodland caribou fight for its habitat, literally? The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society launched an unusual new campaign this morning designed to raise awareness about the need to protect caribou habitat in the Canadian boreal forest. CPAWS calls the stretch of caribou habitat in Manitoba, Ontario

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June 30th, 2009

Group wants more protection for Woodland Caribou

The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society today launched a series of tongue-in-cheek videos focusing on the problems face by Woodland Caribou in Manitoba and across Canada. CPAWS Manitoba wants viewers to write to Manitoba Premier Gary Doer to lobby his government to do more to protect caribou habitat from logging

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June 29th, 2009

New video campaign launched to help threatened caribou in MB, ON and QB

Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, – Today the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society is launching a series of new tongue in cheek videos aimed at helping caribou populations in three provinces. Forest dwelling woodland caribou are in danger right across the country, and some of the greatest opportunities for conservation lie in

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June 12th, 2009

New Options Now Available To Protect Traditional Lands on East Side Of Lake Winnipeg: Struthers

First Nations on the east side of Lake Winnipeg will play a major role in ensuring better protection, management and development of traditional lands under the East Side Traditional Lands Planning and Special Protected Areas Act, Conservation Minister Stan Struthers said today. “Under this new legislation, east side communities now

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June 11th, 2009

Reindeer herds in global decline

The first global review of their status has found that populations are declining almost everywhere they live, from Alaska and Canada, to Greenland, Scandinavia and Russia. The iconic deer is vital to indigenous peoples around the circumpolar north. Yet it is increasingly difficult for the deer to survive in a

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June 11th, 2009

From the border to the beach

Attention Manitobans: lace up your boots, there’s a new challenge afoot. The Manitoba Recreational Trails Association announced Wednesday evening its plan to launch Border to Beaches, a 370-kilometre trail stretching from the Ontario border to Grand Beach Provincial Park. MRTA president Ruth Marr said the association is fortunate to have

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Ontario Law Makes Good on Promise to Protect Northern Boreal Forest

TORONTO – A coalition of leading environmental groups applaud legislation introduced today that would enshrine Premier Dalton McGuinty’s commitment to protect at least 225,000 square kilometres of the northern boreal forest. The Far North Planning and Protection Act, if passed, would help Ontario fight climate change, protect ecosystems and ensure