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The Council for Environmental Education and Flying WILD are hosting a  
conference titled "Bird Education through Conservation: A National  Gathering."  The 
meeting will be held from February 5-8 in Austin, Texas,  at the Crossings 
(_www.thecrossingsaustin.com_ (http://www.thecrossingsaustin.com/) ), a  
beautiful retreat center adjacent to the Balcones Canyon Land Preserve. The purpose 
of the meeting is to  provide a forum for discussion, network building, and 
planning to further the  reach of bird education efforts in North  America. 
 
The goals of the conference are to:  
- Initiate the development of a  national bird education network, 
- Highlight the most critical messages  to be communicated through bird 
education efforts, 
- Share success stories in bird  conservation education through case studies 
and interactive discussions, and  to 
- Examine outreach to diverse  audiences as a priority goal within bird 
conservation education and share  successful methods for involving diverse 
audiences in bird education. 
Those participating in the conference will include directors,  administrators 
and educators from numerous organizations involved in bird  conservation and 
education--such as government agencies, conservation  organizations, 
zoos/aquariums, museums, nature centers, school districts,  Audubon centers, 
businesses, NGO's and nonprofit groups at the national, state  and local levels. 


The deadline for early bird  registration is January 8th. More information 
and registration forms are  available at  
_http://www.flyingwild.org/BirdEducationConference.htm_ (http://www.flyingwild.org/BirdEducationConference.htm) .  

 
Marc  LeFebre
Sr. Coordinator, Flying WILD
Council for Environmental  Education
5555 Morningside Driver, Suite 212
Houston, Texas  77005

p/713-520-1936
f/713-520-8008
_www.flyingwild.org_ (http://www.flyingwild.org/) 




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