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Consultations ending, but minister wants time for 'due diligence' on 14,000 submissions

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If you're trying to evoke sympathy for the plight of threatened animals, it's relatively easy to drum up support for charismatic creatures like pandas, polar bears or baby seals.

Hence the frustration of biologists trying to raise awareness about the biggest disappearance of mammals in North...

A large decline in the moose population on the east side of Lake Winnipeg has the Manitoba Wildlife Federation calling for a full closure of a key moose-hunting area.

The Federation wants Game Hunting Area 26 completely shut down to hunting in order to allow the population in that region to...

Ron Thiessen is the 2012 Manitoba Eco-Network “Protecting Our Earth” award-winner! The award honours significant contributions to the awareness and protection of Manitoba’s environment. Ron’s efforts to protect the largest and best marl lake in the world – Little Limestone Lake – and healthy...

CPAWS’ Ron Thiessen was a guest speaker today at the Manitoba Legislative Building at a gathering organized to address a proposed peat mine in Hecla/Grindstone provincial park and to express the importance of peatlands. His key messages were:

• Industrial activity is not appropriate in...

Congratulations to Gord Mackintosh on his new post as Manitoba’s Conservation Minister. His many years in Manitoba politics, his accomplishments, and his specific experience make him capable of this challenging role.

CPAWS is pleased to hear that Minister Mackintosh is going to make the issue...

‘Serious threat’ to area cattle cited in move

The federal government is planning to test elk for tuberculosis in a Manitoba national park amid fears the disease could infect cattle herds.

Parks Canada has issued a request for proposals for tests in Riding Mountain National Park citing a...

The Canadian Parks & Wilderness Society (CPAWS) is celebrating Canada’s submission to the United Nations for a World Heritage Site on the east side of Lake Winnipeg – the Heart of the Boreal. The 43,000 km² World Heritage Site proposal is an initiative of five First Nations straddling the...

MANITOBA’S new Conservation minister vows not to drag his feet over a decision on whether to allow a peat mine to proceed in Hecla/Grindstone Provincial Park.

“I’m well aware of the concerns and I’m going to have a very hard look at this application as a priority issue over the coming month, at...

Environment Canada is hosting a session today in Winnipeg to discuss its proposed strategy under the federal Species-At-Risk Act to prevent threatened woodland caribou from continuing down the path to extinction. It’s timely to ask why are caribou in trouble in Manitoba and across the nation? How...