The goal of NJAS Department of Education is to provide education programs and materials for students, educators, special needs groups, NJAS members and the general public that will increase awareness and understanding of their relationship with the natural world. These programs will foster positive efforts toward preserving New Jersey s natural ecosystems and species diversity.
Environmental education is a process of fostering responsible human behavior toward natural systems.
This behavior is based on knowledge and understanding of the interrelationships among living and nonliving things. Students, teachers, visiting birders, and uninitiated tourists all remark about the amazing phenomenon of shorebird migration. Right now, right this minute, we are in the thick of it. It is the third week in May, and at last tally the aerial surveys done by the New Jersey and Delaware fish and wildlife services showed 278,260 shorebirds using the beaches along the Delaware Bayshore on one day. Our NJAS research team estimated 15,000 shorebirds using just the feeding and resting resources at Thompson's Beach, and this is only a fraction of the shorebirds that visit New Jersey's habitats on their way to the breeding grounds in the Arctic.