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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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    Featured image for “CPAWS releases citizen-backed provincial election questionnaire”
    March 24th, 2016

    CPAWS releases citizen-backed provincial election questionnaire

    With a provincial election on the horizon, the Canadian Parks & Wilderness Society (CPAWS) has today released an all-party questionnaire to help inform voters of party positions on issues related to the future of the vast Boreal region of Manitoba. The questions were developed with input from CPAWS members. Hundreds
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    March 23rd, 2016

    CPAWS receives 2016 Conservation Award from The Wildlife Society – Manitoba Chapter

    CPAWS Manitoba was thrilled to receive the 2016 Conservation Award from the Manitoba Chapter of The Wildlife Society at the organization’s AGM today.
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    March 22nd, 2016

    World Water Day: Lake Winnipeg needs a healthy Boreal

    On World Water Day, the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) is amplifying the call to save Lake Winnipeg by highlighting the fundamental need to ensure the nutrient filtration capacity of boreal forests and wetlands is a primary consideration in land use decisions within its watershed. As approximately 75% of
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    March 10th, 2016

    Trudeau – Obama joint statement reaffirms conservation goals

    CPAWS Manitoba applauds the re-affirmation by the Canadian and US federal governments that they intend to protect at least 17% of lands and 10% of marine areas by 2020. The goal was highlighted in a joint statement released today during Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s state visit to the White House.
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    March 4th, 2016

    Manitoba Introduces Environmental Bill of Rights

    In less than 5 months after accepting David Suzuki’s request, the Manitoba government has introduced an Environmental Bill of Rights for the province. If passed into legislation, it will provide statutory recognition of a right to a healthy environment, improve public access to environmental information, simplify the citizen complaint process,
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    March 3rd, 2016

    Know the North guest blog #3 – Start the Conservation Conversation!

    Whenever I head up into the far north it feels like I have gone back in time. For the most part the remote Canadian wilderness is the same now as it was a thousand years ago – eskers and drumlin fields dominate the landscape, and forests of black spruce and
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    Featured image for “World Wildlife Day: Bats need the Boreal”
    March 3rd, 2016

    World Wildlife Day: Bats need the Boreal

    The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) and a local wildlife expert are calling for protection of the boreal forest in Manitoba as a critical measure to ensure the survival of endangered little brown (Myotis lucifugus) and northern long-eared bats (Myotis septentrionalis).
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    February 11th, 2016

    The Boreal is beluga habitat

    Successful whale habitat stewardship will reverberate through the forest
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    January 28th, 2016

    Know the North guest blog #2 – Lessons In Fear

    I agonized over whether or not to join the expedition for weeks.
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    Featured image for “NCN Land Use Planning Funds a positive step toward fulfilling commitments to Indigenous Nations”
    January 20th, 2016

    NCN Land Use Planning Funds a positive step toward fulfilling commitments to Indigenous Nations

    On Monday, CPAWS joined members of Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation (NCN) and Premier Selinger for the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) regarding land use planning focused on conservation and resource management of NCN’s 22,000 square kilometer resource management area within the boreal forest of Manitoba. CPAWS has been supporting
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    January 20th, 2016

    Know the North guest blog #1 – We’re Headed North

    Our trip will take us 1,400 kilometres through Canada’s north. Though we travel as eight, we hope to share our trip as widely as possible.
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    January 8th, 2016

    Skownan First Nation wins Excellence in Sustainability Award

    Chief Cameron Catcheway of Skownan First Nation has accepted an award from the Province of Manitoba for Excellence in Sustainability in the category of Water and Natural Areas Stewardship. The community was nominated in recognition of their work toward the designation of Chitek Lake Anishinaabe Provincial Park and for their
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