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By Adam Donnelly

WORLD RIVERS DAY

McArthur Island Slough gets a clean-up on B.C. and World Rivers Day

Sep 25, 2023 | 11:31 AM

KAMLOOPS — September 24 was recognized as World Rivers Day, a celebration that was founded in B.C. back in 1980. Here in Kamloops, some local conservation groups partnered up to help beautify one of the natural spaces in the city.

Members of the Kamloops Naturalist Club and the Thompson-Nicola Conservation Collaborative took to the banks of the McArthur Island Slough to pick up garbage and help beautify the area in honour of World Rivers Day.

“There’s a lot of wildlife that depends on this little slough area and the river for sustenance,” KNC member Mike Dedels says. “It’s their home, so we don’t want a bunch of garbage around animal’s homes.”

The clean-up was just one of several events the Kamloops Naturalist Club has in the works around the community.

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“The mission of the Kamloops Naturalist Club is to know nature and keep it worth knowing, by enhancing the environment and getting people together to learn about the environment,” Dedels explains. “[Saturday] we were doing a restoration project, planting grasses around Lac du Bois, and next weekend we’re going to be doing a clean-up at Tranquille.”