Manitoba Wildlands is a non-profit environmental organization in Manitoba. We work with communities, industry sectors, and environmental organizations for the future of Manitoba's lands and waters. We support establishment of protected areas.
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- Manitoba Boreal Lands Protection: NRDC 1:51pm May 15
- Manitoba Fails Green Report Card 1:50pm May 15
- International Program Partners with First Nations 12:36pm May 12
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11:34am Jun 18Emma Thompson gets tough about Heathrow decision
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11:18am Jun 18Events
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- World Water Monitoring Day
www.worldwatermonitoringday.org
Thursday, September 18 at 1:00am - 2008 Canadian Water Resources ...
Lakeview Resort
Monday, June 16 at 7:00am - Manitoba Water Workshop
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Friday, June 6 at 9:00am - MEND Manitoba Workshop
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Wednesday, June 4 at 7:00am - "Fat Lake" Documentary screeni...
Park Theatre
Thursday, May 1 at 6:30pm - Possible Addition of Manitoba ...
Manitoba
Tuesday, March 25 at 7:00pm - Green Communities National Con...
Radisson Hotel Downtown
Wednesday, April 9 at 7:00am - Earth Hour 2008
Worldwide
Saturday, March 29 at 8:00pm
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Images of ManitobaCreated on May 15, 2008 at 1:45pm
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Proud owner of a piece of the land where the UK government wants to build a new runway, Emma Thompson is a bit miffed about the decision.
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Reactions to International Herald Tribune headline of a climate saving deal
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As the EU heads of state gather in Brussels, copies of a fictional International Herald Tribune issued on the day after a positive outcome of the December 2009 climate negotiations in Copenhagen are handed out.
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Green jobs growth outpaced other-colored job classifications by nearly 250 percent over the last decade, growing 9.1 percent between 1998 and 2007, versus
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KYOTOplus is a petition-based campaign to pressure the federal government for real action on global warming. Greenpeace and 30 other public interest groups are ...
Manitoba Wildlands Whoa!!!!!
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Canadian rules limiting industrial greenhouse gas emissions won't even be developed until next year and will not take legal effect for up to six years, to match a proposed U.S. timetable, Environment Minister Jim Prentice said Thursday.
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From Canada to Copenhagen: Pedal for the Planet (July 3 - Sept 20) FriJul3toSunSep20,2009,acrossCanada
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Celebrate World Oceans Day on June 8th by exploring the life-giving role of oceans. Canada first proposed the idea in 1992 and in 2009 the United Nations declared June 8th as World Oceans Day. This year's theme is "one ocean, one climate, one future".
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The European Union Parliament voted to ban the trade of Canadian seal products in protest against commercial seal hunting methods, removing a primary market for Canada's sealing industry.
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BirdLife International, the official IUCN Red List Authority for birds, released their latest evaluation. A staggering 1,227 species or 12 percent of the world's birds are classified as globally threatened with extinction.
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Canada's Turning the Corner climate change plan overstates expected reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and fails to meet standards of transparency, according to an independent audit.
1986 Limnic Eruption of Lake Nyos, Cameroon: Poisonous Gas Cloud Killed Animals, Vegetation and Peop
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A sudden explosion of carbon dioxide under pressure caused Lake Nyos in Africa to emit a lethal gas that asphyxiated all living organisms within a 15-mile radius.
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Sometimes, the underground reservoirs that store natural gas explode. Drilling wells into them makes this more likely. When wells explode, the gas generally ignites, making a spectacular flame that can be seen for miles. ...
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Our eco-future is defined by the four Great Green Truths: we have a global crisis, it has a solution, the solution is winnable, and winning requires a "middle path" of action that is both non-violent and non-stop.
Oil firms and loggers 'push indigenous people to brink of extinction' | Environment | guardian.co.uk
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'Uncontacted' tribes forced to flee armed gangs and bulldozers in forests of Peru, Brazil and Paraguay, says Survival International
Manitoba Wildlands Ask your leaders to attend the Climate Change talks in Copenhagen!
Manitoba Wildlands So what is keeping this from happening then?? hmmmm....
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Solar power is for wimps. You'd be forgiven if that was the impression you had, given that it's been the (usually) implicit message coming from the oil and coal industries for decades now. But a new Greenpeace ...
Manitoba Wildlands There is a planning meeting this Thursday!! Check out the discussion board for info.
This is the group page for Kyotoplus activity here in Manitoba. Get Involved! Volunteers are needed every step of the way. We need: * cyclists and walkers to join rides and walks tour leaders who h...
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Scientists agree that to prevent catastrophic climate change we must keep the average increase in global temperature as far below 2 degree Celsius as possible (relative to the pre-industrial level). Yet, the Harper government is not listening to Canadians and doing nothing to stop global warming. .....
Indigenous communities have identified conservation opportunities all across Canada's boreal forest and Poplar River First Nation in Manitoba has been at the forefront of this vision...
Manitoba received a F-level grade in the April 2009 Green Provincial Report Card issued by Corporate Knights. The group ranked the provinces and territories according to 10 environmental categories including greenhouse gasses, green energy, water use, biodiversity, and car dependency...
The Jane Goodall Institute has partnered with Canada's Assembly of First Nations to bring the global youth program, Roots & Shoots to First Nation communities across Canada...
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The David Suzuki Foundation, the Pembina Institute and Forest Ethics condemned a New Democratic Party promise to drop the first-ever carbon tax in North American.
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An executive sacked from a giant property company can claim he was unfairly dismissed because of his
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These days we are incessantly debating over one of the hottest issues, i.e. environmental pollution and rise in temperature throughout world. An intelligent person always
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In these tough economic times none of us are strangers to the concept of ‘budgeting’. It makes perfect sense doesn’t it? You have a limited amount of funds to allocate so you try to live within those means. Of course you could ‘live now, pay later’ but that way disaster lies.
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Your help has never been more important. Governments have been warned about the potentially catastrophic consequences if climate change is ignored. But Canada's government is still not listening. Instead, ...
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The birds we see in our backyards, fields, forests, deserts, and oceans have much to tell us about the health of the environment. Each year, thousands of citizen-science participants contribute data from across the United States, making it possible to identify birds in trouble. ...
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