Reptiles at Risk

2008 plans...

Posted by Jeff Hathaway on June 8, 2008 at 11:51 PM

We're still finalizing our plans for 2008, as funding announcements have been very late this year. It is quite a challenge to plan everything, hire staff, etc. without knowing what funding will actually come through!

However, we continue to forge ahead, and at the moment it seems like we will depart from Orillia on July 7th, and spend about a week getting to Manitoba. We'll spend another week or so in each of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, before heading into Alberta. Alberta and British Columbia are the main focus of our western tour this summer, so we'll spend about 2 weeks in Alberta and then 3 weeks in British Columbia. We expect to finish up in the area where Sharp-tailed Snakes are found, on Vancouver Island, around Labour Day. Some of the staff will fly back to start school, and a couple of us will spend another 2 weeks driving the van and trailer back to Ontario, with a few school programs along the way.

We will then deliver some more school programs in Ontario throughout the fall and winter, until we run out of funding and shut down the project.

2008 has been intended to be the final year of the project. However, there is some possibility of it being extended, and discussions will occur in the fall about the future!