Community Education & Outreach
Inspiring stewardship and highlighting biodiversity in our region
PROWLS engages our community about the ways we can protect our wildlife at home, at work, at school and in our day-to-day lives. We aim to help foster respect and wonder for the amazing biodiversity that surrounds us here!
Learning more about our fantastic coastal local wildlife is the key to making sure we continue to grow up alongside these species for generations to come. In the context of continued growth and development in our region, we must do our best as a community to minimize the impacts of our human endeavours on local wildlife.
Many of the ways you can help prevent human-caused injury to our local wildlife are fun and interesting projects for the whole family!
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Due to Covid, PROWLS is unable to attend events or offer workshops, but we look forward to seeing you around town again as restrictions ease! In the meantime, please enjoy our online resources, and get in touch if you have any specific wildlife queries.
Wildlife Tips
In our community
PROWLS has…
… given talks at the Naturalists Club.
… hosted tables at most of the events in town, answering local wildlife questions and sharing our brochures.
… become eligible for the Federal Youth Employment Grant, allowing us to employ local youth interested in gaining hands on experience working the field of wildlife biology.
… connected with our local library about hosting accessible evening wildlife talks in the future.
… inspired a couple of classrooms, with more to come!
… connected with leaders of our fantastic outdoor and environmental educational programs about including PROWLS in their syllabus (stay tuned!!)
Help us open a visitor’s centre
PROWLS plans to offer a Visitor’s Centre when we reach our fundraising goals for a new forever facility.
We are inspired by the work of other coastal wildlife and interpretive centres, and want to create an interactive place where our community and visitors can come to learn about the biodiversity of our region. We aim to offer workshops, presentations by visiting biologists, a multi-media library, class field trip opportunities and more!
We invite you to support PROWLS today, as our need for a new facility is urgent and pressing, both in terms of our patient and volunteer capacity.
Help us engage our community and younger generations, and inspire future stewards of our amazing front and backcountry today!