On Friday, June 11th, 2021, WRIG and HCWG were joined by grades five and six students from Gulf Shore, Central Queens, and École Saint-Augustin at Rackham’s Pond. The students spent the day learning about environmental science and conservation from seven different interactive exhibits!
Check out this year’s stations and their presenters:
Electrofishing PEI Fish and Wildlife
Tree Planting and Identification PEI Provincial Tree Nursery
Bats, Scat, & Tracks PEI Watershed Alliance
Birds of Prey Island Falconry Services
Monarch Butterflies Bedeque Bay Environmental Management Association
Brook Trout Migration Hunter-Clyde Watershed Group
Water Quality Monitoring Canadian Wildlife Federation
A huge thank you to the students for their fantastic compliance with our COVID-19 regulations, to the teachers, bus drivers, and chaperones for making the event run so smoothly, and to the presenters for volunteering their time!