Manitoba's only lizard, the northern prairie skink (Plestiodon septentrionalis) is in trouble! Manitoba Conservation, the Prairie Skink Recovery Team and NatureNorth.com are on a mission to protect these beautiful little reptiles. This Save Our Skinks (SOS) website is about letting you know how you can help! |
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To protect the northern prairie skink, government, private conservation agencies and skink researchers need to know more about them. And they need to work hand-in-hand with private landowners and land managers to protect skink habitat. One-half of the lands in Manitoba thought to be habitat for skinks are privately owned. Manitobans need to work together to ensure a future for our only lizard. |
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You can make a difference! Get involved with SOS. In the Skink Monitoring section there are some examples of other Citizen Science projects underway in North America to give you a better idea of where the SOS website is headed.
The SOS website was featured on CBC Manitoba's Radio Noon show on June 24, 2008. You can download an mp3 version of this broadcast: Radio Noon Broadcast. Thanks to CBC's Marilyn Maki for helping to get the word out! |
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To learn more about
the prairie skink |
To learn how you
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Biology of prairie skinks Conservation issues for prairie skinks Biodiversity and prairie skinks Biogeography of prairie skinks |
Are your sure
it's a skink? Reporting a skink sighting Monitoring skinks on your
land Helping skinks on your land |
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Concerned about having an endangered species on your land? Worried about what happens to the information you may report? For some thoughts, and to set your mind at ease, Click Here. |
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The SOS website is a production of NatureNorth.com funded by Manitoba's Sustainable Development Innovations Fund. For our full credits section and some additional skink links: Click Here.
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