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Click here for information on Rutgers Cooperative Extension's Junior Intern Program at the Nature Center of Cape May.

2008 marks the 13th anniversary of the union of the New Jersey Audubon Society and the Nature Center of Cape May. What began 16 years ago as a fledgling children’s summer program for 25 kids has now blossomed into a year-round, professionally staffed environmental education center offering a variety of children’s, family, and adult nature activities, teacher education workshops, and group programs to over 12,000 participants a year.

The Nature Center’s home on the banks of Cape May Harbor provides a unique opportunity for hands-on marine science education, along with the more traditional New Jersey Audubon habitat focus areas.

Most NJAS sanctuaries find their busiest programming seasons to be spring, fall, and winter, with the summer months being their slowest time of year. Not so the Nature Center of Cape May. Because of its location at the Jersey shore, a vacation destination for at least four states, the Nature Center is busiest during the long, hot seaside summer. 

That first tiny summer program that operated on a shoestring budget out of a camper parked on Nature Center grounds in 1992 is now 10 weeks long and serves over 800 children, causing the center’s four interpretive buildings to burst at the seams! Click Here to view some some more scenes from a typical summer at the Nature Center of Cape May.