COULD YOU BE WILD FAUNA NATURE PLAY’S LONG TERM HOME?

Wild Fauna is looking for a long term collaboration with an organization, family or individual in the Clarence-Rockland and Ottawa East-End area, that has land to share.

COULD THAT BE YOU?

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Who we are:

Wild Fauna Nature Play provides nature-rooted outdoor programs all year-round. Our mission is to provide enriching, child-led, educational learning programs - through play in the outdoors - to the children, youth & families of the Clarence-Rockland and Ottawa East-End community.

Wild Fauna proudly offers an inclusive space, by honoring everyone’s unique being, their race, their individual beliefs, language, religion & gender identities & fluidities. We honor our human peer’s pronouns and consistently respect & use them. We extend love to all our living relations by fully respecting all individual needs without judgment.

We explore the land with curiosity and wonder. We navigate skills that help build self-esteem, confidence, patience, and focus. Through curiosity, questioning, appropriate levels of risky-play, problem solving, practice and mishaps, children then build a deep relationship & trust within themselves, with their peers, and with the land.

Decades of studies have shown that spending consistent time outdoors benefits people immensely!! Doctors even prescribe time in nature as part of a patient's support to their health, through the PaRx program. And we, at Wild Fauna Nature Play, design our programs with this principle in mind. We believe it should start at a young age so that this practice becomes instilled.

“Kids who play in green spaces focus better, master motor skills faster and move more” ~ Read more about the specific benefits here: PaRx

Do you believe in our mission & share our values?

What we are looking for

Here is the list of what we are specifically looking for, in order to be able to carry our work & fulfill our mission:

At least 3-5 acres of land, with a mix of forest & field (or open meadow)
An accessible water source - whether that’s a pond, a stream, and/or a creek.
The ability to have localized campfires during the 4 seasons.
A sturdy & reliable shelter - or the ability to add our own
A wood stove in the shelter or the ability to legally install one.
A private property (not accessible to the public), where privacy to the Forest School is provided so that we may run programs during the weekdays, evenings & weekends.
Accessible road & parking.
All year-round access
Farm animals or the ability to have smaller hobby-farm animals (e.g. Chickens). - Optional

What’s in it for you?

In addition to supporting the well being, health & education of children in our community, you would be sharing space with a group of people who thrive to care & protect the environment, nature & all its living beings for the current & future generations to come. You would also be compensated (specifics would be discussed together). Lastly, If you are a local business, this collaboration would bring visibility to you & your business.

If not you...

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