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Happy Fall Equinox! 🍂

Today the night is the same length as the day, marking the end of summer! Welcoming us into fall!

Discover how birds, fish, mammals, and insects prepare for the season’s changing weather—watch now!

#manitoba #winnipeg #environment #conservation

Backpacks are ready, and lunch kits hopefully in hand. The school bell is ringing.

While summer is over, nature doesn't have to wait!

Read here: https://loom.ly/gxIjWp0

This #WildlifeWednesday, meet the North American river otter! 🦦 Excellent underwater vision, near-sighted on land — maybe borrow a monocle? A group is a bevy, romp, or lodge; in water, it’s a raft! 🌊

📸 Owen Strickland (iNaturalist)
#KeepManitobaWild

"Is this the Krusty Krab?"
"No, it's the purple sunstar!" 🌟

This sea star prowls the ocean floor of Hudson Bay, hunting clams, mussels, and other invertebrates.

📸: leftcoaster on iNaturalist

#MarineMonday #HudsonBay #ManitobaNature #KeepManitobaWild

It’s #WildlifeWednesday!

Meet the painted turtle — Manitoba’s sun-loving reptile with a dark shell edged in red and yellow. 🐢☀️ They bask on logs with friends and can survive winter under frozen ponds by breathing through their skin.

🐇 #WildlifeWednesday is hopping in with the snowshoe hare! These seasonal shape-shifters change from brown to white to blend in. Look for their big back feet and Y-shaped tracks — and if you spot one mid-shed? Lucky you.
📸: Kyle Blaney | #CPAWSManitoba #KeepManitobaWild

🔥 Learn survival skills with us and @backcountrywomen! 🪢

Learn how to start a fire with household items, tie all kinds of knots, and meet new friends while you're at it.

Check out our 3Common page for more details and registration!

🦊 #WildlifeWednesday: Red Fox

With fiery fur and a white-tipped tail, red foxes live in forests, prairies—even city edges.
Fun fact: A group of foxes is called a skulk or leash!

📸: Karl Kroeker (Sourced from iNaturalist)

🎶 Whoa, Black Scoter, bam-ba-lam!
These deep-diving sea ducks pass through northern Manitoba’s Hudson Bay.
Males = black with orange bills, females = brown beauties.
📍 Churchill sightings!
📸: Kyle Blaney via iNaturalist
#MarineMonday #CPAWSManitoba #KeepManitobaWild

🌾 Tall, tall grass. Blue, blue skies.

We walked through a tall grass prairie on a warm July weekend.
Once widespread, less than 1% remains — and Manitoba is one of its last strongholds.

👉 Check out the blog on our website!

🦉 #WildlifeWednesday: The short-eared owl hunts in daylight and loves open prairies. And those “ears”? Just feathers. Total fake-out. 😤
Spotted in southern Manitoba during spring and fall!

📸: @craigtaylorff on iNaturalist

#ShortEaredOwl #CPAWSManitoba #KeepManitobaWild

🌊 #MarineMonday: Tundra swans nest in Hudson Bay’s coastal wetlands, right here in northern Manitoba! 🌾🦢 Each year, they raise their young by the sea—then fly thousands of kilometres to southern coasts. Arctic roots, ocean journeys. ✈️🌎

#CPAWS #ProtectTheBay

🌊✨ #MarineMonday: Meet the Red-throated Loon!

The smallest loon of them all breeds in northern Manitoba and can take off from land — no water runway needed! It spends most of the year at sea, only nesting in quiet Arctic ponds. 🚀🦆

📸: Stephen Petersen (via iNaturalist)

📢 NEW REPORT: The Hudson Bay Lowlands cover nearly 10% of Manitoba and are 97.5% intact. This vital region holds incredible ecological, cultural, and economic value—and it needs protection.

🔗 Read the report & hear what Manitobans are saying. https://loom.ly/O2v4TB0

🎶 Thank you, nest 🎶
Meet the Brown-headed Cowbird — a bird that makes no nest. 🙅🏻‍♀️🪺 They sneak eggs into other birds’ nests, sometimes tossing out a host egg. Their chicks hatch early, grow fast, and outcompete nestmates. Once fledged, they join flocks of their own kind.
📸: Chris O'Donoghue

🦭❄️ Marine Monday Quiz!

🧠 Which Hudson Bay seal keeps a breathing hole open in sea ice all winter by using its claws to scratch it out daily?

A) Harp Seal
B) Ringed Seal
C) Bearded Seal

👇 Let us know your answer below!

📸: Stephen Peterson (Sourced from iNaturalist)

☀️ Happy Summer Solstice! 🌿
It's the longest day of the year—a perfect time to soak up the sun and connect with the land. 🌾🦋
While enjoying the light, take a moment to appreciate the wild places that make summer special.
📸: @rileymartinmedia
#SummerSolstice #KeepManitobaWild #CPAWSManitoba

🦅💭 What if every child walked 1 km—could we match the epic journeys of migrating birds?

That question sparked a school-wide walkathon at Linden Meadows School!

🚶‍♀️🌎 See how students walked for wildlife.

👉 Read more: https://loom.ly/QbzlXAs

#CPAWSManitoba #MigrationChallenge

Integrated STEM | Polar Bear Math and Science | Polar Bears International Integrating mathematics with polar science in K-12 education, we demonstrate how scientific questions can give rise to mathematical questions

Happy Pi Day! Discover the intersection between mathematics and polar bear science with our Integrated STEM unit. #PiDay 🥧

Summer job alert! Lake Winnipeg Foundation seeks a Summer Outreach Coordinator. Full-time, May-Aug 2024, $23/hr, 32-hr workweek. Passionate about community & environment?

Apply by April 7: bit.ly/LWFSOC

#WinnipegJobs #LakeWinnipeg #SummerJob

A delicate, dew-covered spider web is intricately woven between blades of grass in a sunlit meadow.

A close-up of a red-breasted merganser nest, lined with soft feathers and dried grass, holding a cluster of pale, smooth eggs.

Pi (π) is all about circles, and nature is full of them! Rings in a tree trunk reveal its age, birds weave circular nests, and some spiders spin nearly perfect spiral webs. Just like pi, nature’s patterns are endless! What’s your favourite example of circles in the wild? #PiDay 🍄🕸️

We showed up in today’s @nationalpost with a few notes on protected areas in Canada. 🍁

Protecting our land and water isn’t just an environmental issue - it's a matter of national security and economic resilience. 🦫

It isn’t a left-or-right issue – it’s a Canadian issue. 🫎
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📣 New fellowship for First Nations women! 📣

Ahead of #InternationalWomensDay, we're co-hosting the First Nations Women Transforming Conservation alongside the Indigenous Leadership Initiative 🧵🌎

Manitoba’s Seal River watershed closer to permanent protection | The Narwhal The watershed surrounds the province’s ‘last truly wild river.’ Could it soon be a huge new protected area?

Exclusive: Government leaders are one step closer to formally protecting the 50,000-square-kilometre Seal River watershed, which is more than 99 per cent intact, reports @jsrutgers.bsky.social for The Narwhal and the Winnipeg Free Press: thenarwhal.ca/manitoba-sea...

Seal River Watershed protection area feasible following year-long survey A recent survey has found that making a northern Manitoba watershed a protected area is possible.

Seal River Watershed protection area feasible following year-long survey www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/art...

Opinion: Indigenous-led conservation is not a threat As an Anishinaabe-Kwe scientist, water protector, and a guardian of Indigenous knowledge, I’ve spent my life working to protect the lands and waters that sustain all of us. I’ve also spent a lifetime ...

Well done, Taylor Galvin! Check out her OpEd in today's Free Press: Indigenous-led conservation is not a threat www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...