Island Nature Trust to teach P.E.I. students about delicate dunes

The Island Nature Trust has a new education project to teach students about P.E.I.'s delicate ecosystems of beaches and dunes, and why they need to be protected.

The project is being offered to Grade 7 students in Hernewood Intermediate and M.E. Callaghan Intermediate in western P.E.I. The Island Nature Trust hopes to eventually expand it to classrooms across the province.

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The first are expected to start classroom work in January. If there's enough funding, students will be able to get onto the beach by May, says project co-ordinator Chelsey Folsom.

"We believe that getting them out into nature and experiencing it hands-on and doing some science-based … stuff that they would be able to really get a better understanding of how the ecosystems work," she said.

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