Chipola students learn about the importance of biodiversity …………….

By | April 5, 2019

Released by Chipola College …

Mr. Billy Bailey, Florida Caverns State Park Assistant Manager and Ms. Dianna Bryant, Wildlife Rehabilitator, enhanced environmental science students’ studies on the protection and preservation of Florida wildlife, and its importance to biodiversity and the maintenance of ecosystems through two separate interactive zoological presentations.

Dozens of fossils which included alligator snapping turtle, beaver, boar, snake skins, lichen, eastern box turtle, gar, feathers, wasp nests, lunar moth, yellow pond slider, antlers, locusts were brought from the Park with a history of each.

Dianna Bryant’s Wildlife Sanctuary residents : Buffy, the great horned owl; Griffin, the red tailed hawk; and a bard owl all came to visit, teach and interact with the students.