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NBC's "your LA" captures CNI at the Promenade on Earth Day, April 23, 2007
About halfway through the video clip you'll spot Christina from CNI showing off some of the animals from our Wonder Mobile program.
NBC's "your LA" features CNI, Feb 26, 2007
Watch the video clip as NBC's your LA gives an overview of CNI's mission and activities.
Los Angeles Times, May 31, 2001
Move over big brother and sister: Here's an event for
crawlers, toddlers and droolers.
The 12th annual Kids' Nature Festival, held Saturday at Temescal Gateway Park
in Pacific Palisades, is filled with outdoorsy, hands-on activities geared specifically
toward infants to 8-year-olds. Think of it as a festival for the sandbox generation.
Toddlers can dig for dinosaurs, crawl through a mole tunnel, pat friendly reptiles
and join in a sing-along concert. Read
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The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles,
Feb. 02, 2001
Take a hike: The Children's Nature Institute (CNI),
a nonprofit group founded by a nature-loving mom in 1985, has a long roster of
family-friendly nature walks. CNI docents lead several educational walks every
week, where they help children use all five senses to decipher their environment.
The hikes are about two hours of leisurely walking along a trail, some of them
stroller-friendly. For groups of about 20 people, CNI will arrange for private
walks. Read
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Los Angeles Times, Feb. 01,
2001
Into the Mist: Sometimes all it takes for a child to
revel in the rain is a puddle to splash in and a working umbrella, accompanied,
of course, by a parental lecture about how opening umbrella indoors causes bad
luck. If you want to raise the bar, consider taking a hike at a park or canyon-as
long as it's just misting.
"If it's really raining, people are putting themselves in danger, and we
do not recommend going out," says Judy Burns, director of the Children's
Nature Institute in Santa Monica. "But in heavy fog or a light mist, it can
be magical. The leaves glisten. Read
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Westside Weekly, Oct. 22, 2000
A horse dropping is hardly reason to get excited - unless
you didn't see it in time.
But the fly-infested dung was a site to behold for 30 first-graders from Sunrise
Elementary School in East Los Angeles, who rarely cross paths with horses.
Docents gathered children around to show them a deer print and how to make their
own impressions of animal tracks. Their attention however, was quickly diverted
to a hawk soaring high overhead. The children's eyes widened to the size of saucers
and they were stirred with excitement as they saw the bird of prey.
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Santa Monica Bay Week, May
18, 2000
What's got winged kids, live goats, rabbits, bearded
dragons, hedgehogs and music? The 11th Annual Children's Nature Institute Kid's
Festival, held last Saturday in Temescal Gateway Park in Pacific Palisades. With
over 30 free interactive nature booths, mazes, face painting and an opportunity
to buy elegant hand made bat wing, butterfly and other costumes, the fair offered
a day of fun and education enjoyed by kids and adults alike. It may be the only
festival in the country geared to kids from one to eight years old.
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Our Times, Aug. 15, 1999
A group of children looked skeptically at the dried
flowers placed in their wet hands. Their walk had taken them past Sycamores, a
beehive, gopher holes and running creeks. A plastic bag of dried flowers just
before lunch seemed a puzzling offering after the hour-and-a-half hike.
"Rub them together," encouraged Nancy Berk, their docent through Malibu
Solstice Canyon. "Keep rubbing until it gets soapy."
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