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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.

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First Nations, Métis get behind prohibition on moose hunting

Wolves, ticks and a deadly parasite are killing so many Manitoba moose that hunters, including those from First Nations and Métis communities, are ready to lay down their riflles. This week, Manitoba announced a ban on moose hunting near the Duck and Porcupine Mountains of western Manitoba, expanding a ban

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TEMPORARY CLOSURE ON MOOSE HUNTING INSTITUTED IN AREAS OF MANITOBA

Wolf Management Planned to Help Moose Populations Recover, Stabilize: Blaikie The Manitoba government is closing all moose hunting near the Duck and Porcupine Mountains following the advice of wildlife experts, Conservation Minister Bill Blaikie announced today. The full conservation closure on moose hunting comes a year after licensed hunting was

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FRCN and CPAWS Celebrate New Fisher Bay Park

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June 28th, 2011

PUBLIC CONSULTATIONS BEGIN ON BLOODVEIN LAND-MANAGEMENT PLAN

Manitoba Conservation advises the Bloodvein River First Nation’s proposed Pimitotah Management Plan for its 3,482 square kilometre traditional land-use area is going to the public consultation stage. In December 2009, Bloodvein River’s renewed interest in the Pimachiowin Aki World Heritage Project was announced. The project is a partnership of the

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June 28th, 2011

Fisher Bay – Who decides?

Oh. My. Goodness! It’s so wet and windy in Winnipeg that I’m not able to get out on the boat and see Fisher Bay, one of the Seven Small Wonders of Canada, which is too bad, as this is one of the most beautiful and ecologically valuable places in Canada!

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June 25th, 2011

CPAWS Cheers New Park at Manitoba’s Caribbean-blue Lake

Today representatives from the Mosakahiken Cree Nation, the Manitoba government, CPAWS, and Nature Manitoba visited Little Limestone Lake to announce the Caribbean-blue lake and its surrounding landscape as Manitoba’s 85th provincial park. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed on site by the Manitoba government and Mosakahiken Cree Nation that includes

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June 25th, 2011

Many-hued lake is now province’s newest park

It’s a lake so blue you would think you were in the Caribbean—until it freezes in the fall.

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June 20th, 2011

NEW BIRDING TRAIL UNVEILED, NATURE CANADA SIGNS MANITOBA-ISRAEL MOU PROTECTING BIRDS, PROMOTING ECOT

Nature Canada is adding its signature to a birding and guiding memorandum signed by Premier Greg Selinger and the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI) last October, Water Stewardship Minister Christine Melnick announced today. The minister made the announcement with Nature Canada at an event highlighting the

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June 17th, 2011

CPAWS Applauds Wilderness Protection Announcement

The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) is cheering the protection of a huge area of Manitoba’s Boreal Forest that was announced by the provincial government today. The ancient and largely undisturbed wilderness, about 20 times the size of Winnipeg, was legally protected from industrial activities such as logging, mining,

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Transmission corridor or World Heritage site?

BLOODVEIN RIVER, MANITOBA—Rob Whaley and his friends just discovered something about one of Canada’s most pristine wilderness areas: just when you get away from it all, you can’t, because a provincial premier and 38 other people might drop in. That’s what Whaley, a Huntsville, Ont., family doctor, found out as

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Province Releases “Save Lake Winnipeg” Plan

New safeguards for pollutant-filtering wetlands, large protection goal needed The Manitoba government has just released Bill 46 – The Save Lake Winnipeg Act. The aim is to significantly reduce phosphorus and other nutrients that are drastically affecting the health of the world’s 11th largest freshwater lake. The province’s plan includes

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GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR PLAN TO IMPROVE BIRDS HILL PARK FOR FAMILIES

Manitoba’s Backyard Makeover Continues with Beach, Campsite Expansions: Premier Birds Hill Provincial Park will undergo a major makeover over the next five years that will significantly improve the popular outdoor adventure and camping destination for Manitoba families, Premier Greg Selinger announced today. “Birds Hill Park is a great getaway for