Celebrate Wildlife at the Cape Cod Wildlife Festival!

Celebrate Wildlife and help keep #CapeCodWild!

The Cape Cod Wildlife Collaborative is sponsoring its 8th Annual Cape Cod Wildlife Festival this Saturday.

FESTIVAL DETAILS
WHEN: Saturday, September 9th, 2017
TIME: 10 am – 3 pm
WHERE: Mass Audubon’s Long Pasture
Wildlife Sanctuary, 345 Bone Hill Road, Barnstable

The Festival is FREE to the public and features family-friendly education and entertainment.

Live animal education presentations with Rick the Creature Teacher at 11 am and 1 pm.
Books by the Sea of Centerville: book signing with local authors from 12 pm to 1 pm, including Gil Newton with his new book, Marine Habitats of Cape Cod, and Consie Berghausen with her children’s book, A Shark! Named Jamison.
Live music performed by the Gary Lamb Band.
Delicious food from Pineapple Caper Mobile Café, Cape Cod Donuts and Lewis Brothers Solar Ice Cream Truck.
Fun, educational and interactive activities for families.

Sealphen King was entangled in plastic rope in Chatham Harbor.

The Cape Cod Wildlife Festival showcases local environmental groups dedicated to Cape Cod wildlife and habitats. This year, the Festival highlights the rapidly increasing problem of plastics in the environment, both on land and in water, and its impact on Cape Cod. Bans of plastic shopping bags in many Cape Cod towns are just one step in the right direction. Members of the Cape Cod Wildlife Collaborative will offer educational and entertaining activities to help Festival attendees understand the dangers.

Rick the Creature Teacher will talk about wildlife!

The festival is underwritten by generous grants from Cape Cod Five Foundation and media sponsor Cape Cod Media Group. For further information on the Collaborative or Festival, please contact Heather Rockwell at (508) 420-0780 or hrockwell@bcleanwater.org. Visit the Collaborative’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/CapeCodWildlifeCollaborative for more details on the Cape Cod Wildlife Festival.

Plastic trash in the ocean is dangerous for animals and people!

The Cape Cod Wildlife Collaborative is a partnership of non-profit organizations committed to protecting Cape Cod wildlife through rescue, rehabilitation, research, habitat conservation, advocacy and education. Members of the Collaborative are: Barnstable Clean Water Coalition, Barnstable Land Trust, Cape Wildlife Center, Center for Coastal Studies, IFAW Marine Mammal Rescue & Research, Mass Audubon Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary, National Marine Life Center, Orenda Wildlife Land Trust, Thornton W. Burgess Society, Whale & Dolphin Conservation, and Wild Care.