BARNSTABLE – The Cape Wildlife Center, the National Marine Life Center, and Orenda Wildlife Land Trust launched Spotlight Wild initiative last week.
“Spotlight is a new way to look at an ecosystem in a holistic way. We began with a look at plastics in the environment, climate change and water quality, and how it affects marine mammals – that’s the viewpoint of the National Marine Life Center, how it affects wildlife – which is the Cape Wildlife Center, and how it affects land – which is the Orenda wildlife Land Trust,” said Orenda Wildlife Trust Executive Director Theresa Barbo.
“Its three different perspectives in one sitting session about looking at a new way to see the environment and the challenges that we face together as a community.”
Spotlight Wild is a public education initiative featuring an illustrated lecture and audience-driven panel discussion to explore how plastics in the environment, climate change, and water quality tamper with the health of ecosystems and wildlife in marine waters and on land.
Spotlight Wild kicked off on April 4 at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History.
A second presentation will be held on Thursday, April 18th, at 2:00 p.m. at the Salt Pond Visitor’s Center, located at 50 Nauset Road in Eastham. Like the first lecture, this will be free and open to the public.
“The three groups: the Cape Wildlife Center, the National Marine Life Center, and Orenda Wildlife Land Trust are part of a larger group called the Cape Cod Wildlife Collaborative,” Barbo explained.
“We were just kicking around ideas about how to initiate a new type of public education outreach, and that’s how it all started.”
By TIM DUNN, CapeCod.com News Center
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