SUCCESSFUL CONSERVATION LIES IN WHO IS BY OUR SIDE
Conservation education - Connecting Local Communities to their rainforest
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Conservation education outreach is the key to biodiversity conservation efforts, scientific research programs, monitoring wildlife and ecosystem dynamics, and local community sustainability projects. We believe that conservation education outreach ranges a span of small, simple gestures to large programs. Whether it entails making jaguar masks with kids in schools, bringing curricula for teachers to use in small rural classrooms, and/or giving presentations in wildlife conservation conferences. Environmental education is essential to any and all types of conservation sustainability programs. Through these programs, we aim to "build bridges" between small rural schools and national and international organizations of conservation advocates in Costa Rica and the U.S. - all towards protecting and preserving tropical rainforests and their wild and human inhabitants - for sustainable living for All! |
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"Education in environmental responsibility can encourage ways of acting which directly and significantly affect the world around us, such as avoiding the use of plastic and paper, reducing water consumption, separating refuse....showing care for other living beings...planting trees. All of these reflect a generous and worthy creativity which brings out the best in human beings...There is a nobility in the duty to care for creation through little daily actions, and it is wonderful how education can bring about real changes in lifestyle."
--Pope Francis
--Pope Francis
Partnerships- How we are able to make it happen
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Successful biodiversity conservation on both a local and a global scale lies in our partnerships. Jaguar Bridges believes that only through partnerships can we "build bridges" for: protecting jaguar, wildlife and natural ecosystems, providing forest and aquatic resources to local communities, conducting effective conservation education, and building community sustainability.
We partner with U.S. and Costa Rican organizations for tropical conservation, wildlife research, and community development. A growing list of our partners past and present includes:
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"You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people and help them understand that these resources are their own." -Wangari Maathai, Kenyan Indigenous Kikuyu (Nobel Peace Prize, 2004)
"You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people and help them understand that these resources are their own." -Wangari Maathai, Kenyan Indigenous Kikuyu (Nobel Peace Prize, 2004)