2023

Join Nature PEI Past President Rosemary Curley for a collecting \”blitz\” at the Trout River Natural Area near Coleman in Western PEI this Saturday, August 19th, from 1:30-4:30PM. (RAIN OR SHINE) Trout River Natural Area 36927 Rte2, Carleton, PEI. Western Prince County, PEI —————————————–Nature PEI is participating in the 2023 Continental Mycoblitz, from now until […]

Nature PEI will be participating in the 2023 Continental Mycoblitz, between August 11-20, 2023. Mycologists in the three Maritime Provinces will coordinate the Mycoblitz efforts in our region, to try sequence over 1,000 collections of mushrooms from New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. This Mycoblitz is a unique opportunity to officially document PEI\’s

The International Monarch Blitz is now underway! It runs from July 28- August 6. Check out https://www.mission-monarch.org/ for more details on the project. Visit your local milkweed patch and record your Monarch sightings on iNaturalist (https://inaturalist.ca/). Thank you for your contributions to Monarch conservation!

Basin Head Fisheries Museum east of Souris is the current stop for the Nature PEI Species at Risk Travelling Museum! The display was set up Thursday with the help of the dynamic staff, including Site Manager Elizabeth MacDonald (in photo with banner) and PEI Museum and Heritage Curator of History Samantha Kelly (on the ladder!).

The Nature PEI Species-at-Risk Museum is on the move! It\’s in Tryon at the Tryon Museum (47 Rte 10) TODAY (July 12), 11AM – 4PM, and tomorrow packs up for Basin Head Fisheries Museum near Souris for three weeks (July 14th-August 4th). After August 7th, it will be back in Prince County at the Bedeque

Nature PEI is pleased to expand awareness of species at risk of extinction on Prince Edward Island. A travelling museum display featuring over 30 species is now open at the Tryon Museum with future summer dates at Basin Head Fisheries Museum, Bedeque Historical Society, and Carr’s Wildlife Centre in time for school opening. The display

Join Nature PEI for their next monthly meeting on Tuesday, June 6th at 7:30 pm in Charlottetown. The meeting will feature guest speaker, Hannah Gehrels, PEI Wild Child Projects Coordinator with the Sierra Club Canada Foundation’s Wild Child Program. Hannah will be sharing some of their most treasured and inspiring moments from their work to

The Natural History Society of Prince Edward Island invites you to join a field trip with Prehistoric Island Tours with Laura MacNeil, at Cherrycliff Park, in Earnscliffe, PEI, on Monday, May 22nd, 2023. The 1.5 hour field trip will be rain or shine, so dress for the weather and wear sturdy shoes. (If very rainy

The Hillsborough River Association’s 2022-23 Annual General Meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, May 17th at Stratford Town Hall’s Southport Room starting at 7:00 PM. Bob Harding will be our guest speaker with his presentation “Who Knew? Recent natural history discoveries in the Hillsborough River Watershed”.        We will also be presenting a photo essay on the work we’ve done in the

For those who are taking the 4-lectures and one field trip \”Introduction to Birding on PEI Course\” put on by Nature PEI, the third and fourth lectures will be June 1st and 8th. For this month, some birding suggestions are: Note that there is space to attend the final lectures. Please register at chris@naturepei.ca. Happy