Florida Wildlife Federation has named Mosaic Coastal Education Center at Fiddler’s Cove as the Conservation Educator of the Year for 2007. Approximately 800 children are involved with programs at the restored coastal habitat, including a hands-on environmental curriculum, FCAT review and motivational program.
“Learning is not a spectator sport – we need thinkers and doers who can experience the world around them,” says Liz Hunnicutt, supervisor of elementary science education for Hillsborough County. The young thinkers and doers who have been to the Mosaic Coastal Education Center at Fiddler’s Cove now have a much better understanding of what natural wonders surround them and hopefully have developed the desire to protect and conserve them.
The education center is adjacent to the Alafia Bank Sanctuary, which has become the single most important bird nesting colony in the state. Also owned by Mosaic, the sanctuary has been leased to the Florida Audubon Society for the last 30 years.
Article originally Summer 2007.
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