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
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.
Expanded efforts made to save critically endangered butterflies from extinction
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.