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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.

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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

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Kids camp fight comes to legislature

Environmentalists opposed to a year-round youth camp on an isolated lake in Whiteshell Provincial Park presented letters to Premier Gary Doer Tuesday from more than 600 people opposed to the project. “There’s no way the Doer government received 600 letters from people who support this project,” Eric Reder, Manitoba campaign

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Canada’s Environmental Leaders Off to Washington for Canada-U.S. Enviro-Summit

Leaders from nine of Canada’s largest environmental organizations are heading to Washington D.C. for meetings on some of the most important environmental issues facing the continent–climate change, the arctic, dirty fuels, water and wildlife. The environmental CEOs will be meeting with more than 30 of their environmental counterparts in the

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PROVINCE SUPPORTS NON-TIMBER FOREST PRODUCTS PROGRAM IN NORTHERN MANITOBA

THOMPSON—The Province of Manitoba is responding to growing business opportunities in the north by supporting a program to support entrepreneurs who harvest and develop non-timber forest products, Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives Minister Rosann Wowchuk and Culture, Heritage, Tourism and Sport Minister Eric Robinson, acting minister of Aboriginal and northern

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Parks Canada seeks change

Are Wasagaming’s days numbered as a Parks Canada resort town?

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Manitoba implementing new ATV rules sparked by forest fires

The Manitoba government is tightening the rules around the use of all-terrain vehicles by requiring a permit for rallies. Effective immediately, organizers of any ATV event will require a provincial licence, said Conservation Minister Stan Struthers. The new law was created in response to a number of wildfires sparked during

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MANITOBA INCREASES SUPPORT FOR PIMACHIOWIN AKI WORLD HERITAGE PROJECT ON EAST SIDE OF LAKE WINNIPEG

Manitoba is providing $531,000 in additional new financial and staffing support in 2009-10 for traditional lands planning and a UNESCO World Heritage Site nomination for the east side of Lake Winnipeg, Conservation Minister Stan Struthers announced today. “As First Nations pursue their bid for a world heritage designation in eastern

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Tim’s camp decision to follow open houses

CONSERVATION Minister Stan Struthers said the province hasn’t made a final decision on whether to let Tim Hortons build a camp for disadvantaged children at Meditation Lake in Whiteshell Provincial Park. Struthers, speaking at the Tuesday morning breakfast meeting of the Manitoba Chambers of Commerce, said the province believes Meditation

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April 30th, 2009

FLOODWAY AUTHORITY AMENDMENT ACT INTRODUCED IN MANITOBA LEGISLATURE

The Government of Manitoba has introduced legislation that wouldenable the Manitoba Floodway Authority (MFA) to overseeconstruction of an all-season road on the east side of LakeWinnipeg, Manitoba Infrastructure and Transportation Minister RonLemieux announced today in the legislature. “For many years, First Nations people living on the east side ofLake Winnipeg

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April 30th, 2009

Conservationists say Canada’s Species at Risk Act isn’t working

VANCOUVER, B.C. – A new report card from a coalition of conservation groups says the federal government is moving at a snail’s pace when it comes to implementing Canada’s Species at Risk Act. The report card was produced by Ecojustice, the David Suzuki Foundation, Nature Canada and Environmental Defence. It