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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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April 14th, 2009

First Nations excluded from land use planning

Pity nobody asked First Nations about the biggest review of Manitoba land-use policies in the last 15 years. This month, the Doer government announced the province will overhaul its policies on land use to better balance the competing interests of development with industry and conservation, heritage and environment. The last

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April 13th, 2009

Environment Canada puts off action to protect woodland-caribou

Environment Canada assembled some of the world’s top woodland-caribou scientists for advice on the habitat needed to save the threatened animals, and then it rejected their suggestions. The scientists’ conclusions, released in a report last week, say that development should be tightly controlled in about half the northern boreal forest,

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April 9th, 2009

Conservation group welcomes new federal science report on caribou

Winnipeg – Today, the Manitoba Chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) welcomes the release of a groundbreaking scientific report from Environment Canada on Boreal caribou. The report underscores the importance of protecting large areas of habitat from human-caused threats in the Boreal Forest. It also confirms that

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April 9th, 2009

Half Canada’s boreal caribou herds in decline: report

OTTAWA — The federal government plans to release a report Thursday that finds half Canada’s boreal caribou herds are in decline and may die out in the next century without changes to their habitats, The Canadian Press has learned. The finding that 29 of the 57 recognized herds are “not

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April 7th, 2009

Province unveils controversial wilderness camp

After one year of behind-the-scenes discussion, the Manitoba government and the Tim Horton Children’s Foundation outlined plans Friday to build a controversial $10-million year-round camp complex near Meditation Lake in the Whiteshell. The year-round camp will be open by 2011 and be used primarily to give underprivileged kids a chance

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April 7th, 2009

Ban ATVs from some Crown land, charge drivers and seize their wheels: govt report

WINNIPEG — Manitoba should ban all-terrain vehicles from ecologically sensitive Crown land, force drivers to pay for environmental damage and seize their wheels if they break the law, recommends an internal government report. The report, obtained by The Canadian Press, says the number of ATVs has exploded in Manitoba. But

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April 7th, 2009

Perspective: Pale green

Manitobans like to think we’re ahead of the green game because we have a plethora of provincial parks, no stinky tar sands and we don’t burn dirty coal to power our homes. All that — plus a pretty good record on geothermal heat and relatively clean water — is true.

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April 6th, 2009

CAMPERS BREAK BOOKINGS RECORD AS FIRST YEAR OF FREE PROVINCIAL PARK ENTRY BEGINS

Manitoba campers broke campsite bookings records by noon today as Conservation Minister Stan Struthers said free entry to Manitoba’s parks will provide opportunities for all Manitobans for better summer living.

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April 6th, 2009

Our green carbon future

At a recent speech to the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce, national Chief Phil Fontaine made the strong case that indigenous peoples, as the current and historic stewards of vast tracts of lands, could be key players in a new green-collar economy based on the protection of Canada’s boreal forests. Manitobans

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March 26th, 2009

PROVINCE CREATES THREE NEW PROTECTED AREAS

Whitemouth Bog Ecological Reserve, Whitemouth Bog Wildlife Management Area and Observation Point Wildlife Management Area (WMA) have been added to Manitoba’s network of protected areas, Conservation Minister Stan Struthers announced today. “These new protected areas will help the province meet its commitments to increase the number of ecological reserves and

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March 26th, 2009

Show us the green? Not so much

IT’S a budget that keeps Manitoba out of the red—but doesn’t really offer much new to help green the province. Last year’s financial blueprint was all about the environment—a coal tax, and a partial plastic bag ban. This year, the ailing economy trumped the environment. A new garbage levy on

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March 26th, 2009

Fisher River chief lobbies for provincial park

Members of the Fisher River Cree Nation and an environmental protection group have renewed pleas for the province to keep its promise to declare Fisher Bay Park Reserve a provincial Park. Chief David Crate and representatives from the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society met at the legislature last Tuesday to