Our vision: To be a world-recognised place of conservation excellence, providing outstanding and authentic experiences for all.
About Phillip Island Nature Parks
Phillip Island Nature Parks is home to four major attractions: the Penguin Parade, Koala Conservation Centre, Churchill Island and the Nobbies Centre, as well as several natural reserves. We manage approximately 20 per cent of Crown Land on Phillip Island.
The Nature Parks is a not-for-profit organisation created by the Victorian State Government in 1996. We receive no recurrent government funding and generate revenue from ecotourism to fund our work in conservation. Overseen by a Board of Management, our primary role is conservation of the Nature Parks’ natural and cultural assets, in particular Phillip Island’s colony of little penguins.
Phillip Island Nature Parks is part of the Boon wurrung and Bunurong country, and the Nature Parks conserves important elements of the area’s Aboriginal heritage, as well as historical sites of European settlement and agriculture.
Education and Interpretation at Phillip Island Nature Parks
The Phillip Island Nature Parks is an international leader in environmental research and education on seals and penguins. Through the dedication of our staff and a commitment to excellence, we have become one of Australia’s leading ecotourism destinations with over one million people visiting our parks each year.
Unique, hands-on and immersive experiences hold the Nature Parks at the forefront of environmental education and interpretation. The Nature Parks offers a generous array of unique immersive educational activities for all our visitors. Catering for students from kinder age to tertiary, we aim for every student to increase their knowledge and engagement with our amazing wildlife and ecosystems and that they leave the park with a sense of empowerment to help protect our fragile environment.
ExxonMobil and Phillip Island Nature Parks
ExxonMobil Australia has been a long-term supporter of the Phillip Island Nature Parks since 1990 and has provided funds to support seal and penguin research, seal tracking and education resources.
ExxonMobil most recently supported a seal picture storybook and teaching resource for primary schools, kindergartens, families and conservation groups. The ‘What animal am I?’ reader and the accompanying ‘Australian Fur Seals Early Childhood Teaching and Learning Resource’, are freely available to all Early Childhood Learning Centres and Primary Schools. The early reader and teacher guide compliment the on-line website, www.sealeducation.org.au for primary and secondary schools (also supported by ExxonMobil Australia), which provides information on Australian Fur Seal history, biology, behaviour, scientific facts and classroom activities.
For more information please contact Phillip Island Nature Parks
E: schoolbookings@penguins.org.au
P: (03) 5951 2802
www.penguins.org.au/education
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