Join Friends of Wye Marsh for a wonderful action-packed Earth Day celebration. Free workshops and family-friendly activities – plus drummers and a storyteller!
Where: Wye Marsh Wildlife Centre
When: Saturday, April 20, 2024
How much: Admission is FREE. Donations Appreciated!
What’s Happening!
- 9:00 am – 10:30 am Wye River Clean-Up
Meet at Sainte-Marie Park. Please bring gloves and wear long sleeve pants and a long-sleeved shirt. Get ready to get a little dirty!
- 9:00 am – 11 am Perwinkle Challenge
Let’s loose 10 pounds together! Join us as we remove this invasive species around the Visitors Centre, as part of ongoing efforts to protect and restore the health and quality of our wildlife habitat.
- 10:00 am – 11 am Sustainability ~ Environmentally Responsible Investments
Align your investments with your beliefs in positive change with this FREE workshop sponsored by Meridian. Limited spots Available. Register online at: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/sustainability-environmentally-responsible-investments
- 11:00 am – 1 pm Recycling Goodness in the Garden
Making pop bottle terrariums and planting seedlings in the classroom
- 11:00 am Rubber Boot Hike
Meet us at the Back Door to hike the ski trails
- 1:00 pm Wet n’ Scaly Presentation
Learn how climate change is impacting our turtles by joining our Wye Marsh team in the Display Hall. Then gather around an Indigenous Storyteller to find out how we are all living on “Turtle Island”.
- 2:00 pm Pollinator Seed Bombs
Make a fun planting ‘tools’ in the classroom and take some home for free!
- Visitor our Special Guests in the Display Hall from 9 am – 3 pm!
The Xerces Society For Invertebrate Conservation is an international non-profit organization dedicating to protecting the natural world through the conservation of invertebrates and their habitats. As a science-based organization, they conduct their own research to guide their conservation work, which focuses on Pollinator Conservation, Endangered Species Conservation, and reducing pesticide use and impacts.
The Severn Sound Environmental Association (SSEA) is dedicated to sustaining the environmental quality of Severn Sound and its tributaries by supporting local municipalities and stakeholders and to complete cost effective environmental projects that have impact. The organization is also one of our local Source Protection Authorities
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