Reptiles at Risk

Up and running for 2009!

Posted by Jeff Hathaway on May 29, 2009 at 8:54 AM

Wow, the passage of time is so quick. We had a tremendously active winter and covered lots of ground in southern Ontario. Many happy school kids! We also improved our success rate with our evaluation surveys, and ended up with data from over 2600 students in our database!

For various reasons, this was also a very hard winter for me, personally, which has contributed to the lack of postings to this blog. It was a tremendous challenge to keep this project, and everything else, moving forward, but we have managed it and life is working itself out in its myriad of ways.

I'll try to get a few more details about the winter activities posted, but the most important thing to broadcast is that we have funding again! We will be active just in Ontario this year, and have funding from both Environment Canada's Habitat Stewardship Program and the Ministry of Natural Resources Species at Risk Stewardship Fund.

Robin Manley, who co-ordinated our Trent-Severn Waterway Wildlife special project for the last two summers, will be managing most of the Reptiles at Risk on the Road project for this summer. If you have an event or organization that you think would work well for a program this summer, please feel free to let her know!

Cheers,

Jeff