Species at Risk Spotlight: Eastern Tiger Salamander
November 2022 Dawson Trail Dispatch: As an amphibian, the eastern tiger salamander depends on both aquatic and terrestrial (land) habitats to complete their life cycle.
Species at Risk Spotlight: Eastern Wood-pewee
October 2022 Dawson Trail Dispatch: It can be bittersweet knowing that you won’t be seeing these migrants until warmer weather returns, and this is especially true for species that are at risk of disappearing like the eastern wood-pewee.
Species at Risk Spotlight: Riddell’s Goldenrod
September 2022 Dawson Trail Dispatch: In Canada there are over 30 species of goldenrod, and in the tall-grass prairie we have our fair share. Out of these species one is considered at-risk, Riddell’s goldenrod.
“There are probably fewer than 500 globally”, butterflies released in the Southeast
August 2022 Pembina Valley Online: Nearly 200 endangered butterflies were released into the wild near Vita earlier this summer.
Prairie Day promotes preservation
August 2022 Carillon News: Folks of all ages and from many different Manitoba communities came together on Saturday near Tolstoi to celebrate the beauty of nature.
NCC/Assiniboine Park Conservancy set new record releasing over 200 endangered butterflies onto NCC lands
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
Species at Risk Spotlight: Eastern Whip-poor-will
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.
Secret Garden
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.
Assiniboine Park Zoo sets new record with release of 47 critically endangered butterflies in expanded effort to save the Poweshiek skipperling from extinction
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.
Species at Risk Spotlight: Western Prairie Fringed Orchid
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.