Getting Fishy at Eco-Friends Summer Camp!

Budding scientists are enjoying the weather and the activities at the Eco-Friends Summer Day Camp at Cooper Marsh. The camp continues each week of the summer until August 18. A new theme each week is supplemented with related crafts, games and nature hikes. Guest scientists from the River Institute visit regularly to give demonstrations and speak about related topics. In the first week, children learned about fish anatomy and were keen to dissect a fish to see first hand what they had learned. They also played “radio tracking hide and seek” to understand how radio-transmitters and receivers work when implanted into fish and other species.

Camp counsellors Heather Robertson and Renee Lalande say, “It’s great to see children excited about participating in science.”

Eco-friends camp is run by the St. Lawrence River Institute of Environmental Sciences with the collaboration of the Raisin Region Conservation Authority and the Cooper Marsh Conservators. This summer’s camp is sponsored in part by Ontario Power Generation and the TD Friends of the Environment Foundation.

To register or to receive more information about this year’s camp, please contact the River Institute at 936-6620.