East African Naturalist to Speak About Africa

FALMOUTH, September 14, 2005

At 7 p.m. on Tuesday, October 4 at Gilsland Farm Audubon Center in Falmouth, Maine Audubon will host acclaimed East Africa naturalist guide Augustine Minja as he presents a free program on Africa.

A native Tanzanian who speaks Kiswahili, English, French, Chagga and Iraqw, Minja has led numerous zoological, museum and university groups through Africa since 1997. His interests include ornithology, botany and range ecology.

“Maine Audubon is delighted to host Augustine as we ready for our birding safari to Kenya in March 2006,” said Margi Huber, trips and tours director at Maine Audubon.

Every year Maine Audubon offers three to five tours to ecologically important international locales. Each tour supports wildlife conservation and local culture. For more information on the birding safari to Kenya in March, call Huber at (207) 781-2330, ext. 217.

The October program is free. For more information about this or other Maine Audubon programs, call (207) 781-2330.

MAINE AUDUBON works to conserve Maine’s wildlife and wildlife habitat by engaging people of all ages in education, conservation and action.

With a 160-year history of connecting people with nature, Maine Audubon is the only organization in Maine working to conserve wildlife in three ways: providing hands-on environmental education for people of all ages, conducting research and wildlife conservation projects statewide and taking action to help shape effective science-based conservation policy.

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