Real World Collaboration

Students are challenged to look at how negative environmental impacts in one country can also cause negative consequences in other countries. This project will help to prepare students to h... See More

Students are challenged to look at how negative environmental impacts in one country can also cause negative consequences in other countries. This project will help to prepare students to handle critical global challenges of the future. Student observed of the migration of birds from Panama to the USA. How and what was done is stated to provide a useful model for other projects that promote global understandings and collaboration in the future.

Helping students become conservation ambassadors

Students from a Connecticut high school and the Conservation Research Education Action (CREA) collaborated to study migratory patterns of several neotropical bird species. They hoped to dem... See More

Students from a Connecticut high school and the Conservation Research Education Action (CREA) collaborated to study migratory patterns of several neotropical bird species. They hoped to demonstrate how negative environmental impacts in one country affected other countries. Through their comparison of birds that nested at the Cocobolo Nature Reserve with birds that are normally seen in Connecticut, they helped determine the need to exchange ideas between nations to solve problems. American students were also able to see the correlation between poverty and destruction of habitat.