Conservancy of Southwest Florida FREE Earth Day Festival April 21

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FREE Earth Day Festival on Saturday, April 21, 2012

The annual FREE Earth Day Festival on Saturday, April 21 at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida Nature Center. This earth-friendly event is a kid friendly thing to do in Naples and will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.  It will feature environmental exhibitors and vendors, children’s carnival, face-painting, educational presentations, live entertainers and guest speakers.

Special offer: Each guest who brings clean plastic shopping bags for recycling will get a free pass to a Florida State Park – one pass for every 20 plastic shopping bags turned in at the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) exhibit. While supplies last.

Schedule is as follows:

• 10:00 Puppet Show – Caring for Critters
• 11:00 Snake Talk (featuring a live snake)
• 11:40 Captain Ecology
• 12:30 Award Presentation
• 1:00 Raptor Presentation (featuring a live bird of prey)
• 1:30 Captain Conservation
• 2:15 Tortoise Talk followed by walk to Christopher B. Smith Preserve gazebo

No on-site parking is available at the Conservancy, due to ongoing renovations. Free parking will be available within walking distance at the Colonial Square complex, just south of the Post Office on Goodlette-Frank Road and at Lake Park Elementary. For this day only, Earth Day guests will be able to walk into the Conservancy Nature Center via the new entrance from Goodlette-Frank Road, Smith Preserve Way. 

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida and Conservancy Nature Center are located in Naples Florida at 1450 Merrihue Drive, off Goodlette-Frank Road at 14th Avenue North ~ approximately 4 miles from the Hilton Naples Florida Hotel . For information about the Conservancy of Southwest Florida, call 239-262-0304.