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Invite nature into your Backyard!

FortWhyte’s Naturescape program empowers you to transform your outdoor space into a habitat for Manitoba flora and fauna by incorporating elements that enhance biodiversity: food, water, shelter and space. The Naturescape Membership program allows you access to inspiring and diverse presentations and workshops, advice from our helpline, visits to our indoor and outdoor exhibits, plus a variety of kid’s programs.

Why should you Care?  Like all other organisms, humans are part of the web of life and depend on many different species for survival. We need insects to pollinate the crops, plants to purify our water, trees for oxygen production and climate control, bacteria and fungi for nutrient cycling, and ants and worms for soil generation. These are only some of the natural services that keep our planet healthy. Unfortunately, Manitoba’s biodiversity is declining. Did you know that currently there are 41 critically endangered Manitoban species? By increasing biodiversity in your piece of the planet, you will be supporting the stability and resiliency of our natural ecosystem.

Get Certified!  To acknowledge your steps in encouraging and increasing biodiversity, FortWhyte Alive will endorse and certify your property. To be certified, your habitat must provide food, water, shelter and space as suggested on the checklist. Once your project is complete, just fill out the checklist and send it along with your name, address, e-mail and three photographs of your yard to:

Attention: Naturescape Coordinator
FortWhyte Alive
1961 McCreary Road
Winnipeg, MB R3P 2K9

Why Certify your Yard? Backyard certification has many benefits:

  • Supporting biodiversity in Winnipeg
  • $20 in Naturescape Backyard Bucks valid at the FortWhyte Nature Shop
  • A certified Naturescape garden sign

Discounts at our participating partners including:

For more information about the program, contact the Minna Goulet, Naturescape Coordinator:
naturescape@fortwhyte.org
989-8358

Download the Naturescape Intro brochure - PDF

Download the Naturescape Yard Certification checklist - PDF

To sign up for upcoming Naturescape seminars, call (204) 989-8355.


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Naturescape Family or Individual Memberships

FortWhyte Alive is empowering homeowners to transform their outdoor space into a habitat for Manitoba flora and fauna by incorporating elements that enhance biodiversity: water, food, space and shelter. Joining the Naturescape membership program allows you access to inspiring and diverse presentations and workshops; advice from our helpline; visits to our indoor and outdoor exhibits; plus a variety of kid’s programs. When you become a Naturescape member, you will receive: 

  • all the benefits of a one-year family or individual membership: admission to FortWhyte Alive, quarterly FortWhyte Life newsletter, year-round fishing, cross-country ski trail access and snowshoe rentals, 10% Nature Shop discount, 10% discount on facility rentals, discounts on youth camps and workshops and much more!
  • choice of either a wood duck/screech owl box or wren house
  • admission to all Naturescape seminars
  • 10% discount at Shelmerdine Garden Centre Ltd.
  • additional discounts at participating nature partners

Wood Duck/Screech Owl Nesting Box

  • A FortWhyte volunteer will set up this attractive bird box on a tree on your Winnipeg property
  • FortWhyte volunteers will return each spring to refurbish your box for the breeding season
  • Free Naturescape wood duck seminar

Wren House

  • Receive a beautiful, easy to install wren house from FortWhyte Alive
  • When you renew, you will receive vouchers for a free soda bottle birdfeeder as well as two free suet cakes to pick up from the Nature Shop

Click here to become a Naturescape Member. Then, click "become a member" and scroll the registration page to select a Naturescape category.