Two classes of preschoolers and their parents came for a special visit today. Although the grounds are not open for the public, the AWI makes special arrangements with individual schools to allow access to this exceptional experience. Although today's visitors were preschoolers, classes of students at all educational levels visit, including post-secondary classes.
Although the students are particularly young, many essential messages, such as instilling a serious respect for nature or the necessity of knowledge about a person's immediate surroundings for example, transcend age. Although rehabilitation is regular part of our regime, AWI is not simply an animal hospital. The implication of such work is the importance of the unveiled deep and widely impacting environmental trends.
the raccoons hid at first, but the we were quiet and they eventually came out to see us
the kids feed our resident hinny, Piglet, some carrots
a friendly gosling
Intern Maxine shows the children a young fox
...and a baby raccoon
