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CPAWS gives huge thanks to the Small Change Fund for helping to protect Little Limestone Lake. CPAWS and Mosakahiken Cree Nation are working to add additional lands to the new provincial park that surrounds the Lake so that we can ensure it stays healthy forever. The unique Little Limestone Lake

Premier Greg Selinger congratulated Sophia Rabliauskas of Poplar River First Nation today for receiving the prestigious Ongoing Commitment Award from Earth Day Canada. – Manitoba Government News Release

Bald eagles soar over Manitoba’s Bloodvein River and a forest of lichen-draped Jack pines and mattress-thick moss. Piloted by grinning guides who shout at one another in Ojibwa, our boats splash through a series of churning rapids en route to an ancient rock painting on a granite cliff.

More than 75 scientists from around the world are urging Manitoba to protect one of the Earth’s largest intact boreal forests.

According to a study published several years ago in the journal Science, few places on our planet have been untouched by modern humans. Satellite images taken from thousands of kilometres above the Earth reveal a world that has been irrevocably changed by human land use over the past few decades.

For Immediate Release September 20, 2011 – If the government of Manitoba reversed its decision to disallow constructing BiPole III down the east side of Lake Winnipeg, the claimed savings in construction and line costs would likely be eaten up very quickly. Community benefits agreements, costing the government of Manitoba

Drawing the Line: Social and Ethical Considerations in the Bipole III Debate Public Forum: Thursday, Sept 22, 1:00 – 2:30 Speakers will include: Lynne Fernandez (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives), John Ryan (University of Winnipeg) All are welcome

A video of Little Limestone Lake changing colour.

The remote reserve of the Poplar River nation occupies a tiny cranny of the vast boreal forest that circles the Northern hemisphere like a verdant tonsure, stretching across Canada, Scandinavia, and Russia’s upper reaches. During summer, people and supplies access this small eastern Manitoba community by air or river barge.

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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

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!