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!
Are you a Brevard County resident with waterfront property? Sign up to receive information about having a clam bed on your property through Brevard Zoo’s Restore Our Shores program!
2017 Oyster Gardener workshop. Gardeners within the needed locations 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 office: 321.254.9453 x376.
Get ready to bust some Brazilian Pepper trees! For questions, please contact Kate Brown at kbrown@brevardzoo.org or 321.254.9453 x377.
Join ROS at the annual Grant Seafood Festival on March 3-4, 2018 to collect oyster shells that will later be used towards lagoon restoration!
Help us restore native marsh grasses and mangroves to our Living Shoreline Demonstration Site in Indialantic!
After months of nurturing oyster babies through the Oyster Gardening project (now definitely more like oyster teenagers), it’s time for them to make their way to their forever homes in the Indian River Lagoon! Help us with our Oyster Collection Event at two locations within the county.
Help us restore native marsh grasses and mangroves to our Living Shoreline Site in Melbourne!
Join us for the annual monitoring of our largest reef, in Melbourne! We will be getting our feet wet and our hands dirty while recording data on growth, recruitment and mortality of live oysters!
Free to the public (ages 8-13), reservations are required. For questions, please contact Callie Shaffer at cshaffer@brevardzoo.org or 321.254.9453 x492.
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!
Free to the public (ages 8-13), reservations are required. For questions, please contact Callie Shaffer at cshaffer@brevardzoo.org or 321.254.9453 x492.
The Summer 2019 Oyster Gardening training workshop season is here! 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 office: 321.254.9453 x376.
Free to the public (ages 8-13), reservations are required. For questions, please contact Callie Shaffer at cshaffer@brevardzoo.org or 321.254.9453 x492.
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.