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Protecting the world's northernmost jaguars…
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Educational Programs
The Project and Naturalia have developed a region-specific wildlife school curriculum and have donated educational materials concerning regional biodiversity to the local schools. Northern Jaguar Project sponsored the participation of Sahuaripa-area teachers in workshops conducted by the American Association of Environmental Educators, and hosted a regional environmental education workshop in Sahuaripa enabling local teachers to collaborate with professional environmental education specialists in the development of a municipio-wide conservation program for area schools.
Students in Sahuaripa were so enthusiastic about the program they gave Naturalia's Sonoran Outreach Coordinator, Juan Carlos Bravo, a new name, affectionately calling him "Jaguarlos." Equally enthusiastic parents want to have wildlife posters and photos provided by the Project and Naturalia in their homes.
Environmental Education Workshops
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Naturalia organized a workshop in Sahuaripa to develop its strategy for Environmental Education in the Northern Jaguar Reserve region.
The workshop included the participation of the environmental education group CEA (Conciencia y Educación Ambiental, A.C.) and of Laura Durán, who had previously worked with the conservation group Asociación para la Conservación del Jaguar en la Sierra Alta de Sonora, A.C., the group preserving jaguar north and east of Naturalia's reserve. The project we came up with is in it's final stages of revision and a fund-raising effort will soon be launched to start it running.
CEA's involvement in the project will be to impart Environmental Education Activities in elementary schools of Sahuaripa and surrounding counties along with Naturalia. They made a test-run of the lecture/activities they will be imparting with a groups of children from a local school. This was a huge success and both students and teachers expressed their gratitude and their hope that many more activities like that will take place. Laura Durán will pursue the opportunity to involve a zoo in funding the outreach part of the project so she and Naturalia can start several different strategies identified to weave a network of relationships between Naturalia and local stake holders.
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