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A bird and three plants have been added to the province’s list of species threatened with extinction. The province made the announcement Monday, and also declared that a gull found in Churchill is officially endangered, not just threatened. “Once they’re gone they’re irretrievable,” said Jim Duncan of the wildlife and

A woman from Manitoba who has been fighting to preserve one of the world’s last stretches of untouched boreal forest is one of six international activists to win a major environmental award, handed out Sunday in San Francisco. Sophia Rabliauskas of the 1,200-member Poplar River First Nation received this year’s

THE province has signed an accord with 16 First Nations along the east side of Lake Winnipeg that ensures bands won’t get railroaded by development projects on their traditional lands. The deal, in the works since 2000, kicks off what’s expected to be a long process of creating long-term development

A Manitoba environmental protection group is sounding an alarm over air horns that contain substances that can harm the ozone layer. The Manitoba Ozone Protection Industry Association (MOPIA) said two brands of air horns—the noisemakers often used at football and hockey games—contain tetrafluoroethane, a gas used for its cooling properties.

The province is giving the Wabanong Nakaygum Okimawin (WNO) Council of Chiefs $2.5 million over five years for land-use planning in their traditional area on the east side of Lake Winnipeg. “Traditional land-use planning will assist First Nations and Aboriginal Peoples with mapping burial and other traditional sites, as well

The natural Wealth of the Mackenzie Region is close to $500 billion, according to a report released today by the Canadian Boreal Initiative (CBI). The report, The Real Wealth of the Mackenzie Region, authored by two ecological economists Sara Wilson and Mark Anielski, estimates the ecological goods and services provided

Winnipeg, Manitoba – James Keelaghan, Dr. Derek Ford, and Harvey Locke will appear at the Winnipeg Art Gallery Friday, November 18th as part of a cross-country tour to encourage Canadians to help protect the Northwest Territories’ spectacular Nahanni wilderness. The current boundaries of the Nahanni National Park Reserve – also

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

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

Climate scientists have projected human-induced global warming would make spring arrive earlier than normal, and it is—by about 10 days so far. And while most people are only too happy to say goodbye to winter, “spring creep” is posing a significant threat to plants and animals across the country. I