Spring into The Bishop for Fun and Fascinating Programs

March 10, 2021 – Sarasota

The upcoming equinox on March 20 means that spring is here in Southwest Florida. Days are longer, we’re having fewer cold snaps and parents have their last opportunity to register their kids for our first-ever Spring Break Science Camp, which begins on Monday.

We’re also doing a little spring cleaning of our own in the Parker Manatee Rehabilitation Habitat, where we’re undertaking some renovations following the recent releases of Viva and Felicia to the wild.

The Habitat is temporarily closed as we make some renovations that will allow future rehabilitatating manatees a more naturally stimulating environment with variable depth and substrate, with the goal of helping them transition even more successfully from rehabilitation back to the wild. The Habitat will reopen later this spring.

The Bishop has been doing manatee rehabilitation since 1998 and was a founding partner of the Manatee Rescue and Rehabilitation Partnership, a cooperative group of nonprofit, private, state and federal organizations that participate in manatee population management or manatee rescue and rehabilitation. In all, The Bishop has cared for more than 40 manatees, including Viva and Felicia.

In the meantime, whether it’s our online programs or our in-person activities, there’s still plenty to do and see with The Bishop. 
This evening, during our Zoom think + drink / science program, we’ll be talking gigantic terror crocs so big that even dinosaurs steered clear; later this month we’re hosting an in-person BYOT (that’s bring your own telescope) workshop that provides guests with hands-on help so they can learn how to use their own telescopes and enjoy the stars as much as we do!
And don’t forget: Badlands to Bradenton: Lessons from the Field is open in our East Gallery, showcasing the fossils found by Manatee County teachers during our summer expeditions to the Nebraska Badlands and the lessons the teachers bring back to their classrooms.

Details about our March program lineup are below; as always, if you’d like to talk about these happenings or anything else at The Bishop, please call at 941.216.3460 or send an email!