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A Bird Celebration REVOLUTION is Happening Right Now in the Amazon

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A Bird Celebration REVOLUTION is Happening Right Now in the Amazon By Brian Landever 1000+ students from 26 remote Amazon rainforest communities participated in the first ever bird festivals in the Peruvian department of Loreto from September 9th to the 13th. They awoke early to travel to neighboring communities along the Amazon rivers, well prepared to present elaborate performances related to bird conservation.   These activities have gained momentum since 2017 such that a kind of revolution is building. It’s a celebrative kind, raising spirits and enhancing their cultural arts.   Children are showing excitement for the natural world, and their parents are following suit.   It’s in good time; Peru has been listed as the world’s best country for bird watching , and is second worldwide for most species of birds registered. Most importantly, these activities are showing concrete increases in bird conservation. Thousands of students in K-12 have become involved in th
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Conservation Education in the Peruvian Amazon Making an Impact

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Happy World Environment Day. The 2018 CONAPAC environmental science and conservation workshop for 100 Peruvian elementary and high school teachers in the rural Amazon has been a powerful continuation to collaborative rainforest care in the state of Loreto.   It has added depth, encouragement, and international visibility to the conservation efforts that are led by teachers in communities that partner with us. In 2017, the annual workshop focused on building familiarity with the rainforest ecosystem with classes on children-led garden activities, bird sciences, ecology, and regional medicinal plants.   Dynamic activities were given to teachers to bring to their students.   In November 2017, our evaluations showed that 85% of teachers had applied the classes received from our workshop. This year, the same presenter returned from Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Karen Purcell, and from ANIA Org Pedro Paucarcaja returned with an additional speaker, Teresita Ahuanari.   Generous
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The Importance of Environmental Science Education

A token of inspiration and perspective I offered to the teachers who attended CONAPAC's May 2017 Environmental Science Education Workshop. The opening speech. When astronaut Alan Shepard saw the earth from the moon for the first time, he wept, and since the first publication of the Earth in 1968, a global movement has begun with hundreds of conservation NGOs and thousands of projects to preserve nature. The awareness that we live in a beautiful world gives birth to the concern for the planet. With your help, we can awaken this awareness in thousands of students. You, as teachers, can gain by teaching environmental sciences. It was found in a study by the National Advisory Council on Environmental Education in the United States, that academic performance improved when students studied environmental science. They gained a perspective that provided them motivation, and they performed better, not only in general science, but mathematics, reading, and social studies. In addition, s
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