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A high-tech wildlife monitoring program will be part of the environmental-licensing process for the all-season road project from PR 304 near Hollow Water to Berens River First Nation, Aboriginal and Northern Affairs Minister Eric Robinson, minister responsible for the East Side Road Authority, and Conservation Minister Bill Blaikie announced today

The pursuit of a provincial park has earned one Manitoba chief a Prairie Crocus prize. Chief David Crate of the Fisher River Cree Nation will receive Nature Manitoba’s Prairie Crocus Award in recognition of his leadership in the campaign to establish a new provincial park around Fisher Bay on Lake

The chief of Fisher River Cree Nation says the province is stalling on a plan to establish a provincial park at Fisher Bay. In a release issued today FRCN and Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) say the province is attempting to back down on its commitment to designate a

Re: Province accused of dragging its feet on wilderness park (Oct. 2). The Manitoba government’s request to delay the designation of a provincial park in Fisher Bay is unacceptable on several grounds. Environmentally speaking, Fisher Bay is a healthy boreal wilderness; many rare and threatened species make it their home.

Native and environmental groups are angry the province has backed away from creating a new provincial park around Fisher Bay. The groups claim they were led to believe a provincial park would be created, but are concerned the government wants to extend a consultation process on the matter by five

Last day for public comments The Manitoba government is attempting to back down on its commitment to designate a Fisher Bay provincial park by the end of this month by asking Manitobans for their views on extending the park proposal process for up to 5 years. FRCN and CPAWS say

The Manitoba Wildlife Federation says it suspects poaching is partly responsible for big drops in moose numbers in two regions of the province that are now off limits to licensed hunters. John Williams, the organization’s president, said his members are hearing that there is “fairly substantial meat trafficking going on,”

The Piping Plover, one of Canada’s most endangered species, requires Fisher Bay’s seldom-used beaches for its survival The Manitoba government is asking for public comments on the proposed Fisher Bay provincial park. Specifically, the province is only asking you how you feel about extending the decision-making process for another 5

The present boundaries of the proposed Little Limestone Lake provincial park are inadequate to ensure the lake’s water quality. If polluted waters enter from outside of the protected boundary they will cause irreparable damage to Little Limestone’s delicate eco-system. Protecting Little Limestone’s water sources is required to ensu

The plummeting moose population in Nopiming Provincial Park demonstrates the animals need more space if they are going to survive, the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society said Friday.

Manitoba may have just a handful of polar bears by 2035, as the world’s leading experts on the iconic Arctic species believe the bears that summer around Churchill are doomed.

A Canadian study of global caribou populations has produced what scientists are calling a “dramatic revelation” that numbers of the iconic species — pictured on the Canadian quarter — have plunged 60 per cent in the past 30 years. The study, co-authored by University of Alberta biologists Liv Vors and