With your help, we can protect half of Manitoba's wildspaces for future generations of people and wildlife.
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Our Current Campaigns
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Defend Manitoba Parks
Manitobans could lose access to nature under a proposal to run provincial parks like a business and to shed unprofitable ‘assets.’ The provincial government is looking to potentially decommission or sell off provincial parks and is seeking greater “financial sustainability" for the parks that remain. We need your help to remind the government that parks are for people - not for profit. It's time to invest in park services and give Manitobans more opportunities to enjoy nature.
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The Seal River
In Manitoba’s far north lies one of our most vast and little known wilderness areas, the Seal River Watershed. At 50,000 square km (nearly the size of Nova Scotia), this pristine landscape encircles a realm of unimaginable natural beauty with a richness of geography and ecology unparalleled in our province. CPAWS Manitoba is working with four First Nations to conserve the entire watershed as an Indigenous Protected Area.
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Fisher River Cree Nation Conservation Areas Initiative
The goal of the FRCN Conservation Areas Initiative is to protect the health of Manitoba’s southeastern Interlake's thriving natural landscape so it can continue to provide sustainable economic opportunities and support cherished lifestyles and cultures. The aim is to establish a network of protected areas for future generations of people and wildlife. FRCN is leading the effort and neighbouring Peguis First Nation and CPAWS Manitoba are partners. The initiative has the support of the province of Manitoba and the government of Canada.
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Hudson Bay
Hudson Bay is losing ice faster than any other part of the Arctic. That doesn’t just make it harder for polar bears to hunt. It also means there are more ships in Canada’s great inland sea. Federal protection could help ensure the survival of belugas, polar bears, sea birds and other species which are under increasing pressure from the changes in the Arctic.
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Save Our Moose
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Protect Polar Bear Habitats
The continued health of this vibrant landscape and the polar bears that live here are key ingredients to maintaining healthy and prosperous regional communities. Indigenous land use planning and the proposed Polar Bear provincial park present opportunities to secure this prosperity and assert Manitoba as a global leader in large landscape conservation.
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Woodland Caribou
CPAWS is working to protect threatened woodland caribou from extinction. These spectacular creatures need immense sections of unbroken boreal forest to find enough food and avoid predators. Caribou ranges continue to degrade as human activity, including logging, mining and road networks, push northward throughout Canada – Manitoba being no exception.
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Amisk Park Reserve
A sanctuary for Manitoba’s most threatened woodland caribou remains safe—for now. Thanks in large part to all the people who joined CPAWS’ quest, the Manitoba government has extended protection for the Amisk Park Reserve until 2023.
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Manitoba's Parks
Canada has one of the oldest and most extensive parks systems in the world but, with rapidly increasing development pressures, it is more important than ever to preserve as many deserving and unique wild places as we can before they are threatened. CPAWS Manitoba is dedicated to creating new parks, protected areas, and wilderness corridors and act as a watchdog to ensure that existing ones are well-managed.
Our Successful Campaigns
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Little Limestone Lake
Little Limestone Lake, located approximately 450 Km north of Winnipeg, along the highway to Thompson, Manitoba, is the biggest and best marl, colour-changing lake in the world! CPAWS is working in partnership with Mosakahiken Cree Nations to ensure a sufficient area around the lake is protected so the water body’s ecology remains intact and the needs of local communities are met.
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Pimachiowin Aki
Manitoba’s east side is in the heart of the Earth’s largest roadless and wild boreal forest region. Continuously inhabited by Indigenous communities for over 6000 years, the region supports a richness of cultural and biological diversity that are inextricably linked. The region is also home to some of the most robust herds of threatened woodland caribou.