On Thursday, March 27, 2025, City Council will vote on whether to expropriate the land known as the Lemay Forest. The Trees Please Winnipeg Coalition was pleased to make a submission in support of the motion. Dear Mr. Mayor and Councillors: My name is Erna…

Trees Please Winnipeg Coalition, in partnership with OURS-Winnipeg; Manitoba Eco-Network; CPAWS MB; Climate Reality Project Canada; and Manitoba Energy Justice Coalition;  has sent a letter to mayor Scott Gillingham and his colleagues, urging the City of Winnipeg not to leave federal climate action dollars on…

Last year OURS, Trees Please Winnipeg, our amazing member groups as well as other environmental and climate organizations lobbied Winnipeg City Council to sign the Montreal Biodiversity Pledge. And Winnipeg is now formally listed as a signatory! https://montreal.ca/en/articles/montreal-pledge-call-cop15-launched-to-worlds-cities-39529 This pledge commits to the city to…

Find out which mayoral & council candidates have taken the Trees Please Pledge! Over the past several months, volunteers have been meeting with dozens of candidates in the upcoming election to ask them to sign our Trees Please Pledge – a commitment to care for Winnipeg’s urban canopy…

We’ve added a temperature map to our Interactive Tree Loss Map. It’s a great way to visualize that impact of the heat island effect due to tree and green space loss. Just click on the interactive map then click on Winnipeg temperatures and the data…

On May 24, 2022, the city released a draft of the forthcoming 20-year Urban Forest Strategy. While our coalition members are heartened to find that it contains some promising recommendations, it does not paint a clear picture of what’s at stake and fails to motivate…

Despite current moisture levels our trees are drought stressed and if we get another dry summer, it will be tough for some to survive. Water is essential for trees to take up the nutrients they need to grow and thrive. Without those nutrients, a tree’s…