2019

2019 is a big year for Island Nature Trust and Nature PEI; it’s INT’s 40th anniversary and Nature PEI’s 50th. To celebrate, we are hosting a joint event at one of INT’s oldest protected areas, the DeRoche Pond Natural Area. Date/time: Saturday, September 28 (note change of date), from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Event […]

There is a very exciting weekend ahead! Nature PEI will continue celebrations of its 50th Anniversary with a \”Picnic Weekend\” from Friday August 23 to Sunday August 25th, 2019 that will include a series of special events and walks. A schedule and details of events are attached. In addition to the Nature PEI festivities there

It is with great pleasure that Flora of PEI team consisting of representatives of Nature PEI, PEI Museum and Heritage Foundation and Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre announces  the release of the second section of the Online Illustrated Flora of PEI.   The new section features the Ferns, Clubmosses, Horsetails, Conifers and Lilies and builds upon

At Nature PEI’s June meeting join award-winning poet Ariel Gordon as she reads from her new book, Treed: Walking in . With intimacy and humour Ariel walks us through the streets of Winnipeg and into the urban forest that is, to her, the city’s heart. Along the way she shares with us the lives of

As part of Nature PEI’s 50th Anniversary celebration, the Society is offering a birding trip along the south shore of PEI. Dwaine Oakley will be our tour leader for this field trip which will feature stops at Hyde Park in Cornwall, Victoria, and the Noonan’s Marsh, lagoons, and beach in Borden-Carleton. It is anticipated that

Hi Everyone, The Pisquid River Smelt Festival scheduled for tomorrow is being cancelled because of the heavy rain forecast this evening and tonight and the showers continuing into tomorrow.  Because of the lateness, it will not be rescheduled this year. The Pigot’s Trail Interpretive Walk and Hike scheduled for 9 am on May 11th will

Hi Everyone, The heavy rain forecast tomorrow slated for tomorrow as well as the change in smelt migration status this week have forced us to reschedule the Pisquid River Smelt Festival to May 11th. Hopefully you will be able to join us on that date instead. Thanks, Dan & Clarence Dan McAskill President Hillsborough River

At Nature PEI’s May meeting, Norman Dewar, Ellen’s Creek Watershed Group Coordinator, will talk about the strange things, both natural and unnatural, they have found in and about Charlottetown’s ponds and streams.  Norman will share  the discoveries the Group has made in five years of working in these unique ecosystems that we still know very little