Nature Moncton February Meeting

Mapleton Park Rotary Lodge

NATURE MONCTON FEBRUARY MEETING
February 21st, 2023 at 7:00 PM
Mapleton Park Rotary Lodge (speaker will be on screen via Zoom)

Birder Brain: An overview of the Birder Brain project exploring birding and mental/physical health, with an emphasis on mindful birding.
Presenter: Kelly-Sue O’Connor

Originally from Hillsborough, NB, Kelly-Sue has been a birder for 16 years now. She has been very involved in citizen science during that time starting with several Christmas Bird Counts a year, volunteering for nature organizations, fundraising and sitting on boards like the Toronto Ornithological Club, Friends of Sam Smith Park, and Bird Friendly Cities, and leading bird walks for Ontario Field Ornithologists

 

Measuring Carbon in Wetlands

Think Like A Psychologist: How to better communicate about invasive species to your audience

Applying psychology to effectively communicate about invasive species issues to your audience.

Dieppe Engagement Session - Building connected communities: adapting to the climate crisis through nature

Climate change is here, it is happening, and it is impacting New Brunswickers across the province.  Nature-based and natural approaches to adapting to climate change focus on implementing infrastructure that restores and protects natural areas while removing greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere, reducing flooding and stormwater surge risks, and supporting biodiversity. 

Join us for an engagement session in your region to help us determine how nature-based climate solutions can benefit your communities, what barriers to implementation you might face in your local governments, and how we can best develop a cost-benefit analysis tool to support decision-making. These engagement sessions will also involve sharing resources and related tools to support your communities in gaining the capacity to implement nature-based climate solutions as well as the preliminary results of a public survey of opinion of New Brunswick residents on nature-based climate solutions.

These engagement sessions are targeted towards municipal/local government staff and elected officials but we also welcome representatives from local community organizations and interested local residents.

There will be engagement sessions in Dieppe on February 22nd, Fredericton on February 28th, Edmundston on February 28th, Bathurst on March 1st,  Perth-Andover on March 1st, Quispamsis on March 3rd, online on March 14th.

These engagement sessions are being held as a component of the Research and Knowledge Initiative project Supporting Climate Risk Mitigation for Municipalities with Nature-based Infrastructure - Research and Knowledge Initiative. The New Brunswick Environmental Network is leading this project along with project partner Nature NB and is supported by an advisory committee including representatives from the New Brunswick Climate Change Secretariat, CLIMAtlantic, Infrastructure Canada, Union of New Brunswick Municipalities, and the Association francophone des municipalités du Nouveau-Brunswick. This project is funded in part by Infrastructure Canada and the New Brunswick Environmental Trust Fund. For more information, visit the community of practice for nature based solutions or contact the Project Coordinator, Lilian Barraclough at [email protected].

Art-integrated, Place-based, Discovery Learning Workshop

Knowlesville Art & Nature Centre

The Knowlesville Art & Nature Centre (knowlesvillenature.ca) runs a forest school 4-days a week and each Thursday we welcome homeschooling families to join us.  We have two age groups (5-9 year olds) and (9-12 year olds).  We gather for an outdoor circle of song and movement, then do our daily chores which at times is hauling firewood, shoveling snow, feeding animals, hauling water or sanding icy walkways.  Then we separate into our groups and delve into our story, art and projects for the day.  Snacks and lunch and games are always included as well in the daily rhythm and the land is our classroom, whether we are out in it fully or working with our hands on projects or creative writing in warm spaces indoors or semi-sheltered (weather dependent).  We are offering an immersive experience into our world as part of EECOM 2023.  Children are welcome, but space overall is limited to ten adults.

Apply to the Young Nature Leaders Grant

Online

All across Canada, people and organizations inspire us with their leadership and devotion to our natural world. They commit their time and energy not for credit but for the results. They choose to take up the call to protect, engage and advocate on behalf of nature. They act as a strong voice for nature for our children’s futures.