National Wildlife Week Walk for Wildlife

National Wildlife Week begins April 4. A national campaign to Walk for Wildlife runs from April 4 to May 22 which is International Day of Biodiversity. The goal is to accumulate enough kilometres from participants to stretch across Canada and create national awareness about wildlife conservation and biodiversity. Check out all the details at www.nationalwildlifeweek.com

A school challenge might be to have students, families, etc. accumulate the number of kilometres that a right whale female swims from the Bay of Fundy to calving area off Florida (~2200 kilometres or ~1360 miles) by swimming, paddling, walking, cycling or running (any non-motorized method could be acceptable). Or perhaps a shorter distance for example from Cape Cod spring feeding area to the Bay of Fundy (~470 kilometres or 290 miles), or between the two critical habitats in Canada, the Bay of Fundy and Roseway Basin (~280 kilometres or ~175 miles). Or pick your own important locations for right whales during their yearly movements and calculate that distance. The distances here were calculated using the daftlogic.com google map calculator www.daftlogic.com/projects-google-maps-distance-calculator.htm