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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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April 14th, 2008

Letter to the Editor, Winnipeg Free Press

It is known and accepted that Canada’s boreal forest is of exceptional importance not only to Canadians, but to the entire world. Spanning an enormous area, nearly half of Canada’s landmass, the boreal is the world’s largest terrestrial carbon storage system and combater of climate warming. Manitoba’s boreal forest on

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April 6th, 2008

Caribouman promotes conservation

It isn’t part of his regular migration route, but Caribouman made a stop in Winnipeg to promote an important message yesterday. The 7-foot-tall mascot visited Mountain Equipment Co-op and The Forks to educate people about the need to protect Canada’s boreal forests and the woodland caribou that inhabit them. “At

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April 5th, 2008

Manitoba’s Caribou and you

He’s furry, he’s almost 2.5 meters tall, and he has antlers. Meet CaribouMan. The furry mascot was at the Forks Saturday afternoon to educate people about his habitat, the Boreal Forest. The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society says in Canada 50 per cent of the forest has been depleted, making

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April 4th, 2008

CaribouMan Asks Governments to Save his Boreal Forest Home

Winnipeg – Deeply concerned about the slow progress in protecting his Boreal forest home, the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society is bringing a large furry mascot, known as Caribouman, to The Forks to ask Manitobans to help save his habitat. Caribouman will be outside the Market Tower, Saturday, April 5th,

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March 15th, 2008

Tembec closes the door on recycling paper

The province’s only paper mill won’t use recycled newspapers in its paper production, a move which may have little effect on provincial recycling programs but is being criticized by environmentalists. Tembec, a paper mill company which is based in Quebec but owns the facility in Pine Falls, announced this week

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March 5th, 2008

New eco-website lobbies for boreal forest

Cree knowledge keeper Mary Crate must drive hundreds of kilometres to find medicinal roots that once grew outside her back door. So Tuesday she took a 220-kilometre drive south from her home in Fisher River First Nation to back a new environmental website designed to exert public pressure to protect

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March 5th, 2008

Boreal forest stories tapped

The knowledge of aboriginal leaders is being paired up with technology to help conserve and protect Manitoba’s boreal forests through the Aboriginal Boreal Conservation Leaders Project. “I think this will be a valuable contribution to Manitoban society,” said Ron Theissen, executive director of the Manitoba chapter of the Canadian Parks

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February 28th, 2008

Dozens gather to protest logging in provincial parks

THE Doer government continues to ignore decades-old advice to stop industrial logging in Manitoba’s provincial parks, local environmentalists charged Wednesday. About 50 of them gathered on the steps of the Manitoba Legislature for a noon-hour rally to pressure the province not to renegotiate licences that will allow big forestry companies

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February 28th, 2008

Group protests logging in parks

Logging, bulldozing and mining activity are not usually associated with provincial parks, but those things happen in Manitoba parks, according to the Wilderness Committee. “We need to let people know the government is failing us,” said Eric Reder, campaign director for the non-profit organization. Reder added the NDP government has

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February 27th, 2008

Group wants Manitoba to end logging in parks

Local environmentalists today demanded the Doer government end industrial logging in Manitoba’s provincial parks. About 50 people, who dubbed themselves Tree-Huggers Anonymous, held a noon-hour rally on the steps of the Manitoba Legislature. The group, made up of local environmentalists, said the government is currently negotiating long-term contracts with large

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February 27th, 2008

Rally today to promote park protection

THE Western Canada Wilderness Committee is holding a rally today on the grounds of the Manitoba Legislature to promote the protection of Manitoba’s parks and forests. The rally is set for noon to 2 p.m. The wilderness committee is encouraging conservation groups and concerned individuals to attend, stating it wants

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February 11th, 2008

Group opposes logging in parks

The Manitoba office of a Vancouver-based environmental group wants to focus an upcoming rally at the legislative grounds on logging and mining in provincial parks. In particular, the Wilderness Committee hopes the Feb. 27 rally can sway the province’s decision on whether to grant decades-long logging agreements for Nopiming and