L-R:  Lesley Carruthers, Acting CEO/Manager of Community Outreach Services Eastern Counties Regional Library; Lori MacLean, Communications Advisor, EnCana Corporation; Jodie Hambrook, Manager, Outreach Programs Atlantic, DUC; Erin Heeney, Interpretive and Education Specialist, DUC.
L-R: Lesley Carruthers, Acting CEO/Manager of Community Outreach Services Eastern Counties Regional Library; Lori MacLean, Communications Advisor, EnCana Corporation; Jodie Hambrook, Manager, Outreach Programs Atlantic, DUC; Erin Heeney, Interpretive and Education Specialist, DUC.
 

Nova Scotia libraries first recipients of popular wetland educational resources

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Amherst, N.S., May 19, 2010—For the first time in Canada, Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) is providing popular environmental educational resources to public libraries.

Public libraries in Northeastern Nova Scotia – branches of the Eastern Counties Regional Library and the Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library – will be receiving sets of materials from the Project Webfoot program offered by DUC.

“Eastern Counties Regional Library is so pleased to be the recipient of these resource materials,” says Lesley Carruthers, Acting CEO/Manager of Community Outreach Services of the Eastern Counties Regional Library. “As a regional library, we serve the counties of Inverness, Richmond, and Guysborough through 7 branches and 9 community library link sites. This initiative will provide valuable educational resources to a huge cross section of our population, particularly our region’s children."

“Having these resources available within the library system will be of fantastic benefit to the people in those regions,” adds Jodie Hambrook, Manager Outreach Programs Atlantic for DUC. “These materials will now be there for any children who participated in Project Webfoot and want to learn more about wetland conservation, for children who may have not had the opportunity to participate, for parents and educators, and for visitors to the area.”

For the past three years, DUC has partnered with Encana Corporation to offer Project Webfoot to elementary school children in Northeastern Nova Scotia and along Nova Scotia’s eastern shore. Project Webfoot is Ducks Unlimited Canada’s school-based, national wetland education program that offers curriculum-linked resources related to wetland and environmental conservation for more than 50,000 students across Canada every year.

With Encana’s support in Nova Scotia, the Project Webfoot learning resources will now be made available to all branches of the Eastern Counties Regional Library and the two main branches within the Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library. This is the first time in Canada that these resources will be made available outside of the in-school Project Webfoot program.

“Encana is pleased to support this initiative to provide these tremendous learning materials to public libraries in Northeastern Nova Scotia,” says Lori MacLean, Communications Advisor for Encana in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Encana is an innovative natural gas producer that safely and responsibly provides the energy used in communities across Canada and the United States. In Nova Scotia’s offshore, Encana is developing the Deep Panuke natural gas project. For more information, visit www.encana.com/deeppanuke

The goal of Project Webfoot is to teach today’s students – who are tomorrow’s decision-makers and conservation leaders – about the tremendous value of wetland habitats. For more information on Project Webfoot, see http://www.ducks.ca/aboutduc/how/edu.html

For more information, contact:

Krista Elliot, k_elliot@ducks.ca
Communications Coordinator
Ducks Unlimited Canada
Phone: 902-667-8726

 
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