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Seal River

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February 15th, 2020

Youth Share Interest In Hide Tanning With 60 People In Arviat

Four youth from Arviat helped their community engage in traditional practices by organizing a caribou hide tanning workshop with the support CPAWS.
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January 27th, 2020

Sharing Her Love For The Land And Water Empowers Young Woman From Tadoule Lake

Rebecca Thorassie is finding her voice by speaking to her remote northern Manitoba community about the need to protect their lands and waters.
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October 6th, 2019

Tadoule Lake Stewardship Summit

The sound of drums and laughter echoed across a rippling lake as a group of Dene, Cree and Inuit youth learned how to play traditional Dene hand games. 
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August 20th, 2019

Quest to Create Massive Conservation Area in Manitoba Gets Federal Support

The Seal River Watershed initiative was awarded a large federal grant to help establish a massive Indigenous Protected Area in Manitoba.
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December 5th, 2018

Indigenous Knowledge and Conserving Caribou

Ernie Bussidor of Sayisi Dene First Nation and CPAWS MB Executive Director Ron Thiessen went to the North American Caribou Workshop in Ottawa.
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June 5th, 2017

A fleeting opportunity to conserve the greatest intact watershed in Manitoba

The waters that drain into these areas are sourced from roughly 1.4 million square kilometres of the North American landscape (about twice the size of Alberta), a region that includes concentrated development as well as large areas of intact Boreal forest.
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April 26th, 2017

Seal River watershed campaign gets a boost from École Riverview students in Winnipeg

CPAWS Manitoba is always thrilled to receive invitations from educators and students to join them in the classroom and discuss boreal conservation in Manitoba. The experience is often both humbling and energizing. This proved to be the case when we were fortunate enough to meet with the enthusiastic grade 3
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August 31st, 2016

Know the North guest blog #5 – A Land of Stories

If you have ever paddled on a seldom-traveled river, you likely know the joy of seeing a rock that has been marked with canoe paint. Rocks donning red, green, and yellow streaks can be found in shallow creeks, at campsite landings, and in eddies along the river. To me, these
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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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February 11th, 2016

The Boreal is beluga habitat

Successful whale habitat stewardship will reverberate through the forest
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