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Ncc pwsd outdoor ed workshop oct 25-13
1. Park West School Division
Outdoor Learning Conference
October 25, 2013
Rossburn
2. VISION
The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) protects areas of
natural diversity for their intrinsic value and for the benefit of our
children and those after them.
MISSION
NCC will lead, innovate and use creativity
in the conservation of Canada's natural
heritage.
We will secure important natural areas
through their purchase, donation or other
mechanisms, and then manage these
properties for the long term.
3. • Canada's leading national land conservation organization
• In July of 2013 MoneySense Magazine ranked NCC as
Canada’s top environmental charity with an A+ rating for the
third year in a row.
• Conserved and protected over 52,000 acres in Manitoba
• Works in partnership with private individuals, corporations &
governments to directly protect significant natural areas
• Our commitment to partners is to yield “results you can walk
on”
4. What Land Does NCC Protect?
Highly productive, biologically rich lands are under great
threat of being lost forever.
90% of Canadians live and work in an area covering only 10%
of privately held land in the country along the Canada-U.S.
border.
This 10% of Canada is home to 85% of Canada’s species at
risk.
These are landscapes that are vital to Canada’s ecological
integrity and its clean water and air.
In Manitoba NCC works to conserve the most endangered
habitats and species: e.g. native prairie, endangered orchids,
rare birds and animals, wetlands, rare butterflies
5. Landscape Based Conservation
• Considers entire landscapes, contiguous large
blocks of land that support the greatest
diversity of species and ecosystems
6. NCC’s approach to conservation is built
upon three major components;
• Science – ensures that our work is guided
by the best available conservation science
• Securement – acquisition for the direct
protection of lands
• Stewardship – long-term care &
management of lands and landscapes
7. NCC’s Conservation Planning Framework
Geographic Scale
Ecoregion
Natural Area
Conservation Plan
(NACP)
Property
18. Tall Grass Prairie
• Less than one-half of 1% of the original
tall grass prairie remains in North America
• Largest intact blocks occur in south-east
Manitoba
• Supports over 1,000 species, including 20
species that are listed on endangered
species lists
Endangered Western
Prairie Fringed Orchid
• Weston Family Tall Grass Prairie
Interpretive Centre and trail
system opened July 2013 for
public and school visitors
20. Riding Mountain
• This land is a UNESCO biosphere
reserve that is home to some of the
most intact aspen parkland, boreal
transition forest and rare fescue prairie
in Manitoba.
• It supports large mammals such as
moose, elk, bear, cougar and wolves, and is an important
waterfowl breeding area.
22. Interlake
• A mosaic of prairie, oak
savannah, aspen parkland and
limestone outcrops
• Supports at-risk species such as the
Small White Lady’s-slipper, Piping
Plover and Least Bittern.
Small White Lady’s
Slipper
•This area contains globally
uncommon alvar habitat
alvar habitat
24. Souris River Valley Grassland
• This is only one of two places in Canada where
Buffalo grass is found.
• NCC is working to protect this nearly treeless
plain, which is necessary breeding ground for
Burrowing Owls and other grass-land dependent
birds.
Mule Deer
25. West Souris Mixed-grass Prairie
• One of the last habitat
strongholds for grassland
birds such as the Burrowing
owl, Loggerhead
Shrike, Ferruginous Hawk and
Baird’s Sparrow.
• Protection of grasslands and
pothole wetlands which are
threatened by development.
Loggerhead Shrike
27. Oak Lake Sandhills and Wetlands
• Lush marshes meet rolling
sandhills, creating habitat for Manitoba’s
only lizard, the endangered Prairie Skink
.
•A number of rare plants are found here
including the Smooth Goosefoot and
Silky Clover.
Prairie Skink
• Area contains significant
wetlands that are integral
to preserving healthy
populations of migratory
birds.
29. Whitemouth River Watershed
• Contains a high diversity of plant species and forest
types, and large peatlands
•Contiguous with Lake of the Woods
• Supports one of Canada’s only populations of the
Carmine Shiner, and nationally threatened fish, and
two other species of concern, the Chestnut Lamprey
and Snapping Turtle.
31. St. Lazare Plain/East Parklands
• This region contains one of Manitoba's largest intact
native mixed-grass prairie landscapes
• It includes three Important Bird Areas – identified
globally important bird habitats which support several
threatened species including Sprague's
Pipit, Chestnut-collared Longspur and Baird's Sparrow.
Sprague’s Pipit
32. Conservation Based on Public Engagement
Awareness
Appreciation
Action
= Conservation success!
33. Education and Outreach
• MB curriculum based classroom programming
supported by outdoor experience
•200-250 presentations per year
•7000 participants
•History of delivery in western MB
34. Education and Outreach
•What can NCC do to help:
•Providing facilities
•Offering programming (organized learning
opportunities, CV events)
•General support for outdoor ed activities
