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Attention all K-5 students and teachers: participate in ’07 wildlife poster contest What are vibrantly colored and depict the theme “Habitats for Wildlife: Make a Difference in Your Own Schoolyard?” They are the Seventeenth Annual Give Wildlife a Chance Poster Contest entries. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources Division (WRD), The State Botanical Garden of Georgia, and The Environmental Resources Network, Inc. (T.E.R.N.) invite Kindergarten through 5th grade teachers and students to participate in the 2007 Give Wildlife a Chance Poster Contest (GWCPC). The deadline for entries at the state level contest is Friday, February 23, 2007. The contest is open to all Kindergarten through 5th grade students in public schools, private schools and home-school groups. The participants enter the contest at the local school level with artistic drawings, which depict their observations of Georgia’s native wildlife. The top first-place, school-wide winning posters will proceed to the state level contest at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia in Athens where they will be judged on close correlation to the theme, quality of art, originality and visual impact. Four state level winners will be chosen and awarded with their artwork reproduced in the Give Wildlife a Chance Calendar - a new award for the poster contest! All of the state level entries will be on display at The State Botanical Garden in Athens during the weeks of March 6-20, 2007 in The Garden’s Conservatory. The theme for this year’s competition is “Habitats for Wildlife: Make a Difference in Your Own Schoolyard” a topic that encourages students to explore Georgia’s many plant and animal interactions and the reliance each has on the other. In the wild, animals’ survival is heavily dependent upon plants and, in most cases, plants need the assistance of animals to survive as well. This year’s theme also urges teachers and students to “Make a Difference in Your Own Schoolyard” while learning more about Georgia’s wildlife. All wildlife requires food, water and cover to live and raise their young. Helping create habitats for wildlife in the schoolyard will bring many rewards to teachers, students, the school and wildlife. Gardening for wildlife is fun, relaxing, it makes the schoolyard more attractive, and most of all - it helps to nurture and support Georgia’s wildlife all year! With approximately 3,600 species of nongame plants, 950 nongame vertebrate species and countless invertebrate species of nongame wildlife in Georgia, the poster contest provides a great opportunity for students to explore and observe Georgia’s native wildlife. Contest entries must depict native wildlife like the Northern right whale, live oak tree, red-bellied woodpecker, flatwoods salamander or toad trillium, or the scores of other wildlife species that are not legally hunted, trapped or fished. Sponsors of the annual statewide competition include WRD and The State Botanical Garden of Georgia. The contest is primarily funded by The Environmental Resources Network (T.E.R.N.), Inc., the friends group of WRD’s Nongame Conservation Section. For rules and entry
forms or further information about the Seventeenth Annual Give Wildlife a Chance Poster Contest, visit these websites: www.georgia wildlife.com (click on “Nongame Animals & Plants” and “Wildlife Education”) and www.uga.edu/ botgarden or contact the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources Division, 116 Rum Creek Drive, Forsyth, GA 31029.
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