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Manitoba citizens – over 18,000 letters of support sent to the Manitoba government Bill Blaikie – Manitoba NDP Conservation Minister Jon Gerrard – Liberal leader, Manitoba Legislature James Bezan – Conservative Member of Parliament, Selkirk-Interlake (location of Fisher Bay) James Beddome – Manitoba Green Party Leader Ron Evans – Grand

Healthy provincial parks create a healthy environment and a better future for all Manitobans. Unfortunately, industrial activity such as clearcut logging is permanently degrading our parks.In the coming months forestry licenses that were granted to corporations to clearcut log these cherished areas are expiring. The government is currently negotiating new

CANADIAN Ambassador to the United States and former Manitoba premier Gary Doer is off to Copenhagen to save the day for Canada at the climate conference there. Actually, he will only help to save the day. He is one member of a team of 17 distinguished Canadians recruited by Environment

The province is providing $500,000 to support land-use planning on theEast Side of Lake Winnipeg which will give local communities a greatersay over how resources in the region are utilized, Conservation MinisterStan Struthers announced today. “We want the people of the area to have input into future resource usein the

A new report recently released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows that expenditures for wildlife watching are equivalent to the revenues generated from all spectator sports, amusement parks and arcades, non-hotel casinos, bowling centers and skiing facilities combined.Using data from the 2006 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and

The province and First Nations groups took the first step Thursday on an ambitious plan to build an all-weather road system through a wilderness area the size of England on the east side of Lake Winnipeg. The huge area is home to about 22 communities—many of which are the most

After years of delays, the Manitoba government has released its Conservation and Recovery Strategy for Boreal Woodland Caribou. The Strategy is a weaker, watered-down version of its predecessor that fails to embrace what is truly needed to create a healthy future for threatened woodland caribou – protecting large, intact areas

The Manitoba government has set aside three wilderness areas in the province to protect wildlife from ATVs, snowmobiles and other human encroachment. The new areas are the Whitemouth Bog Ecological Reserve, the Whitemouth Bog Wildlife Management Area (WMA) and Observation Point WMA. The undeveloped wilderness areas total more than 14,000

ST. MALO PROVINCIAL PARK—It’s typically Manitoban. There’s a lake with great beaches, nicely forested campsites and cottages on the periphery—but don’t tell anyone. Keep it to yourselves. That fits St. Malo Provincial Park to a T, located just 45 minutes south of Winnipeg, off Highway 59. “When you tell someone

The Manitoba government’s continued refusal to include the woodland caribou on its endangered species list is contributing to the species’ declining numbers, according to wilderness experts. Manitoba wildlife conservation experts say the province’s efforts to date – including a recently published recovery strategy for woodland caribou – fall far short

Manitoba Wildlands has released the annual Manitoba Protected Areas Grade and technical assessment. Its actions, or lack thereof, have earned the provincial government a failing grade for 2008. In the year since December 2007, Manitoba experienced a net loss of protected lands. This marks the second year in a row

What happens when you find yourself stuck between a strand board and a hard place?The future leader of the NDP is certainly going to find out. For it is going to be left up to whomever replaces outgoing Premier Gary Doer to settle a simmering battle that could very well