| Junior Park Wardens learn about birds, plants on Grand Turk |
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| Thursday, 28 July 2011 08:57 | |||
 An annual summertime favorite — the Junior Park Warden Programme — treated teenagers on Grand Turk this week to the flora and fauna of the Turks and Caicos Islands with the help of the National Museum. On Tuesday they toured the National Museum and saw a short film about the Molasses Reef shipwreck, the oldest wreck ever found in the Americas. Then they visited the museum’s new Botanical and Cultural Garden with B. Naqqi Manco from the Department of Environment and Coastal Resources to learn about the native plants of TCI. They also helped plant some new plants that were a gift from the North Caicos Nursery. In partnership with the U.K. Overseas Territories Conservation Forum, the museum recently launched bird walking and driving tours of the Caribbean’s first sanctioned bird trail on Grand Turk. Armed with their own Bird Walking Trail Guide and Bird Driving Trail Guide, the students went to some of premier birding spots to learn about the birds and also the fragile ecosystem of the salinas and how they effect the bird population. “We are proud to be partnered with the DECR in this very worthwhile programme,” said Patricia P. Saxton, the museum’s director of Business Development. Sponsored by the Pine Cay Project and the DECR, the programme provides local youth with a hands-on environmental education every summer. Over the years, the program has introduced children to a wide variety of activities, including snorkeling, kayaking, boat navigation, Reef Ball construction, mangroves planting, pollution and water quality testing, underwater photography, environmental journalism, making local handicrafts and sessions on the TCI environment, marine law enforcement and invasive species.
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| Last Updated on Thursday, 28 July 2011 09:02 |
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