Boreal Forest
Manitoba campaigns and how you can help
The Wilderness Committee Manitoba office focuses its efforts on creation of new protected areas, safeguarding species at risk, and eliminating industrial activity from provincial parks.
The Manitoba office has been instrumental in the birth of South Atikaki and Manigotagan River provincial parks as well as extending protection of Poplar/Nanowin Rivers and Sturgeon Bay park reserves. Recent negotiations with Tembec have also lead to halting logging in core woodland caribou habitats.
Stop logging in Provincial Parks
Presently, 47% of Whiteshell, 62% of Nopiming, and 61% of Duck Mountain
provincial parks are available for industrial activity and being harmed
daily by current logging operations. ->more.
Please take the time to send an e-mail to express your opinion to the Manitoba government about
the future of Manitoba’s provincial parks. ->send e-mail
Woodland Caribou
The Manitoba government estimates that the provincial population of woodland caribou has decreased by 50% since 1950. Yet, the province is resisting listing and protecting this icon of Canada’s boreal forest under the Manitoba Endangered Species Act even though both federal and provincial government species committees have deemed the woodland caribou a threatened species. ->more
Ochiwasahow (Fisher Bay) Park Reserve
The Wilderness Committee and the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) have joined
Fisher River Cree Nation (FRCN) on a journey to achieve permanent protection and community
management of Fisher Bay and the surrounding landscape. The Ochiwasahow (Fisher Bay) Park
Reserve is temporarily protected from industrial developments while in a decision-making
process initiated and led by FRCN. ->more.
Please take the time to send an e-mail to the Manitoba government to express your opinion
about the future of the Ochiwasahow (Fisher Bay) Park Reserve. ->send e-mail
East Side of Lake Winnipeg
First Nations on both sides of the Manitoba-Ontario border have joined their
traditional territories in a nomination for a World Heritage Site almost 1.5
times the size of Vancouver Island. They have requested from the Manitoba government
to provide interim protection for the nominated area on the east side of Lake Winnipeg,
from industrial activities such as logging, mining, and hydro. This will
allow for conservation and community planning to be done with confidence.
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Please take the time to send an e-mail to the Manitoba government to express your opinion
about the future of East Side of Lake Winnipeg protection.
->send e-mail
