SHELL BAGGING
Roll your sleeves up and get ready to bag some oyster shells. Shell bagging prepares us for our reef building operations. You’ll get both a great work out and contribute to the next generation of oyster reefs!
ADOPT-A-MANGROVE
Mangroves provide a safe home for native plants, animals and birds. Join us at the Zoo to learn more about mangroves and take home a seedling to foster and later plant at a restoration site. The event includes a tour of our aquarium and touch tank!
Are you a Brevard County resident with a dock along the Indian River Lagoon? Sign-up to be an OYSTER GARDENER and help Brevard Zoo’s Restore Our Shores program bring back Brevard’s oyster population!
Are you a Brevard County resident with waterfront property? Sign up to receive information about getting a living shoreline on your property through Brevard Zoo’s Restore Our Shores program!
The 2020 Oyster Gardening training workshop season is going live with a Zoom webinar! Lagoon-front property owners throughout Brevard County can grow oysters from their dock and help us monitor variables that affect growth and survival. Not in the study area? Questions? Please contact Katey at kleban@brevardzoo.org or at work cell: 321-506-2546.
Feel free to spread the word to all of your fellow teachers.😊 Brevard Zoo’s Restore Our Shores Teacher Facilitated Adopt-A-Mangrove in the Classroom HI Lagoon Hero, Thank you so much for your response to the launch of our teacher facilitated Adopt-A-Mangrove project! In a time where our students and teachers are limited in their interaction with the outside world, in relation to education, we are delighted to be able …
SPRING RECAP 2017
REEF BUILDING
The Restore Our Shores team has continued making significant progress with its reef building efforts. Throughout the spring, the team constructed reefs in Port St. John and multiple areas in Indiatlantic, totaling over 850 linear feet. Future builds are awaiting permits and will likely to continue in mid to late August.