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caribou

Featured image for “Seal River Watershed: Get to Know the Animals and Birds We Are Working to Protect”
February 15th, 2024

Seal River Watershed: Get to Know the Animals and Birds We Are Working to Protect

There are 261 known species in the Seal River Watershed, of which 19 are at risk. Here are some of the beautiful animals whose habitat could be preserved thanks to the stewardship of the Seal River Watershed Alliance.
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May 25th, 2022

Protect Woodland Caribou – Fill in a Short Government Survey

There is finally hope the Manitoba government will act to protect threatened caribou after a decade of delays. Answer a quick survey to help.
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May 22nd, 2022

5 Ways Biodiversity Supports Us (and 1 Way You Can Help It Thrive)

Five ways biodiversity helps Manitoba’s communities and wild spaces, including polar bears and caribou.
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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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September 19th, 2018

TAKE ACTION: Manitoba government misses caribou protection deadlines

Eight years. That’s how long it’s been since the Manitoba government missed its first self-imposed deadline to protect our threatened caribou. A federal deadline came and went nearly a year ago. To make matters worse, the province still has not even scheduled key consultations. And our sources indicate that the
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May 8th, 2018

The Government of Canada and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society reach an important agreement

The Government of Canada and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society reach an important agreement on species at risk reporting
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March 23rd, 2018

Temporary Protection for Amisk Park Reserve could lapse without public comments

The province is requesting your input by April 1 on their proposal to renew the protected status of Amisk Park Reserve. Without expressed support for continued protection, Amisk may once again be open for industrial resource activities that would impact the area’s pristine natural state.
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November 22nd, 2017

Climate revenues for carbon rich conservation

Conservation of vast complexes of undisturbed boreal wetlands and forests needs to be top priority because if the carbon they hold is disturbed and released into the atmosphere, it would accelerate climate change. These complexes are also critical as natural flood mitigation infrastructure necessary for adapting to the impacts of
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October 6th, 2017

Federal caribou deadline passes without provincial action

As of this month, the province of Manitoba has received over 21,000 petitions and letters collected in the province that call for stronger efforts to protect and recover threatened boreal woodland caribou. The correspondences, facilitated by the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS), were delivered in advance of yesterday’s federal
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September 8th, 2017

Re: Hunting Moose in Canada to Save Caribou From Wolves (August 30, 2017)

Robert Serrouya is correct in his assertion that killing wolves to save caribou is a band-aid solution and we need to deal with the cause.
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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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