Join us for the 7th Annual Athens Vulture Festival, VIRTUAL! We will be posting fun activities, virtual tours, pre-recorded videos and more throughout the week of Monday October 12th through Saturday October 17th! We will be wrapping up the week with a live stream session with Kathryn Dudeck, Wildlife Rehabber at Chattahoochee Nature Center!

The ACC Vulture Festival is a celebration of "nature's clean-up crew," the vulture! Vultures are key to a healthy ecosystem. Just like the Solid Waste Department, they help keep the environment safe and clean by picking up the "leftovers." Vultures are often under-appreciated, or even cast as the villain or outcast in cartoons and stories. Every year, during this week, we shine a spotlight on this amazing creature, which includes a wide variety of species from all over the world. We also shine a spotlight on our landfill property, which serves to do more than just bury your trash - we strive for waste reduction in all that we do, including composting organics such as food scraps, leaf & limb, and biosolids, as well as recycling materials and reclaiming landfill gasses to convert into electricity. Join us this week for a series of educational and fun activities, programming, and community!