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TABLE 5: EDUCATION CAMPAIGN AIMS AND PERCEIVED SUCCESSES OR FAILURES Campaign Name Aim of Campaign Primary Target Results Comments Nature School Program Connect children to nature to help foster their appreciation love and respect for the natural world around them. Facilitate teachers and parents to plan and deliver environmental education. GP 5 years running. Programs offered help children and adults interpret, study and experience the natural world. Visible presence observed involving youth/nature education. Sunshine Coast Natural History To provide an umbrella organization for naturalists on the Sunshine Coast and to bring naturalists together for educational programs and projects. To give a platform for members with specific concerns. GP Monthly meetings with guest naturalists well‐attended often with 80 or more guests. Nearing 40 years including the precursor society. Annual bird count now in its 33rd year. 2011 bird count was reported to be 2 nd best ever. Frequent press releases printed. President maintains weekly column on birds. Monthly meetings are delivered to predominantly senior audience. Wetlands Day Deepening the awareness in the school community and the surrounding community of the importance of the wetland at Sargeant’s Bay. Edu Delivery to lots of interested parties such as the Halfmoon Bay Community School, SCRD, BC Parks and Sargeant’s Bay residents. Creation of the Sunshine Coast Botanical Garden To create a Botanical gardens as a driving force in the community to improve gardening practices and landscaping and land management practices for stewardship, conservation, education and community involvement. GP 44 acres secured through purchase agreement. Well over $1 million raised to support creation of the gardens. Membership has grown from 70 active members to 750, 125. Initiated over 800 pounds to food program for the food bank through the seniors, veggie & Regular press in local newspapers. Strong support to community pillars. Labour intensive projects to rehabilitate and manage such an extensive property are evidenced. Successes in fund‐raising highly visible. Page 26
organic gardens. Project Aware Internationa l Ocean Clean up Increase awareness of debris being dumped into ocean. Global vision to “return to a clean, healthy and abundant ocean planet” (Miller, J. (2011 p. 53). GP Due to small number of divers versus a large ocean area the task is symbolic. Part of global marine protection effort launched by Professional Association of Dive Instructors (PADI) in 1989. Now supported by 1000 dive operators. Focusing on local awareness and commitment for a global initiative. Recycling challenge exists as too much is required to clean up ocean debris and ends up in landfill instead of the ocean dump. Synchronicit y Festival Marriage of Art + nature + change at the core of mandate. To display the diversity of progressive and innovative people who live and work in area and to cross‐pollinate their networks. GP Grew from an around the table concept to 350 participants in 2010, to over 1000 in 2011. Expectations of success seen for August 2012 festival. Provide locals and tourists with a fresh new look at Gibsons and the surrounding area. One of the projects with a strong youth focus. Establish the Iris Griffith Centre To create a centre for field studies and interpretation in order to explore the natural wonders of BC’s Sunshine Coast. GP NS Funds successfully raised. State of the art green building, solar, watercatchments, septic 2,500 square foot centre was built in 2005 and now open six days a week to the public. Exhibits illustrate human interaction with natural environment. Continues to grow & expand especially plans for a future separate field Studies centre across the road from the present IGC site. Hampered by remoteness. Primary Target codes: GP = general public, Edu – Education Un‐structured interviews: # 5 (25 minutes ‐ October 13, 2011), # 4 (20 minutes ‐ November 16, 2011), # 6 (15 minutes ‐ November 22, 2011), # 2 – (15 minutes ‐ November 25, 2011), # 7, # 35 (40 minutes ‐ January 6, 2012), # 1 (15 minutes ‐ January 22, 2012), # 41* (20 minutes ‐ January 22, 2012) * represents interview with person other than campaign manager NS: no survey completed information from un‐structured interview and gathered from publications & website Attendance at organization events: # 5 (September 24, 2011), # 2 (January 6, 2012), # 4 (January 22, 2012) Page 27
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