For immediate release
KDFWR, DOE & UK to
Launch New Environmental Education Website
The media is encouraged to join the
Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife, Department of Education and the
University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service/4-H, College of
Agriculture, and the Tracy Farmer Center for the Environment in launching a new,
educational website about Kentucky’s Environment.
The All Wild
About Kentucky’s Environment (AWAKE) website will be made
operational following a special “kick-off” ceremony Friday,
November 7 at the UK Singletary Center for the Arts at 12 noon. The “Launch”
will immediately follow the Jeff Corwin lecture session and last approximately
30 minutes. Additional activities will include live animal presentations on
birds of prey, reptiles and snakes. The entire event is expected to conclude at
approximately 1:30 p.m.
There will be students and speakers involved in introducing the AWAKE site
for educators and the public to use as a resource to learn more about Kentucky’s
wildlife species, their habitats and behaviors.
A media-relations opportunity regarding the
AWAKE website will be offered immediately following
the Jeff Corwin interview session at 10:15 a.m.
These opportunities will occur in the President’s Room at the Singletary
Center for the Arts.
For more information about this event, media is encouraged to preview the
AWAKE website at www.KentuckyAWAKE.org,
and contact Laura Lang, KDFWR Education Administrator, at (800) 852-0942.464
weekdays 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. for details.
