As we build awareness of the incredible tall-grass prairie in southeast Manitoba, the story is being shared through various channels.
August 2022 News Release: Over the course of approximately three weeks in July, the Assiniboine Park Conservancy successfully released 191 critically endangered Poweshiek skipperling butterflies
August 2022 Dawson Trail Dispatch: I think everyone can identify when an Eastern whip-poor-will is calling, if not, look it up! The call is really like nothing else you can hear in our province and is a sound I really enjoy.
July 2022 UM Today Magazine: Tallgrass prairies not only mitigate global warming, they’re home to biodiversity that took millennia to develop. Now they’re among the most endangered ecosystems in the world. Alumni trying to preserve the last grasslands show us what we stand to lose.
July 2021 News Release: After a very successful breeding and over-wintering season, the Assiniboine Park Conservancy has released 47 critically endangered Poweshiek skipperling butterflies.
July 2022 Dawson Trail Dispatch: There is an orchid that grows in SE Manitoba that is found nowhere else in Canada. This orchid depends on one of the worlds rarest ecosystems, the tall-grass prairie, to grow in.
June 2022 Dawson Trail Dispatch: Hello fellow Manitobans! My name is Norm Gregoire and I am the Community Liaison for Species at Risk in the tall-grass prairie natural area. What a job title! Let me explain.
March 2021: In September 2020, Environment and Climate Change Canada announced an investment of $1.9 million over four years to conserve species at risk within Manitoba’s endangered tall-grass prairie.
September 2020 News Release: Protecting nature is an essential part of addressing biodiversity loss and fighting climate change. We need transformative action to protect our natural environment now and into the future.
July 2020 News Release: The Assiniboine Park Conservancy has released 19 critically endangered Poweshiek skipperling butterflies at the Nature Conservancy of Canada’s properties in the Tall Grass Prairie Preserve in the RM of Stuartburn in SE Manitoba.
