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Puerto Rican Lizard Cuckoo Saurothera vieilloti January 2009 Interpretive and Conservation Education Master Plan • Products will be deferred if no additional funding sources are identified. Agency Goal 6: Recommend specific interpretive planning needs for existing and proposed interpretive sites. Objective: • Develop a five-year plan for proposed sites/programs with cost estimates that will be used for budget planning purposes. Project managers should use this plan when developing their project work plans and for asking the region for funds each year. Agency Goal 7: Establish a process to consistently evaluate and prioritize interpretive/conservation education proposals. Objectives: • Evaluate products and programs (internal and external) against the process developed. • Only products and programs meeting the criteria will be implemented. Conservation Education Goals/Objectives and Themes The primary goals of the Conservation Education Program are: • To provide conservation education opportunities to all Forest visitors; in particular to children; • To provide teachers and their students with an opportunity to encounter our rain forest; • To provide teachers and their students with “hands-on,’ conservation themed activities that will aid them in acquiring knowledge and develop the values, attitudes, skills and motivation needed to protect and improve the environment; • To promote behavior that is consistent with the environmental conservation ethic; • To create an awareness of global warming issues, highlighting needs and detailing methods we all can use to help reduce our energy footprint. Conservation Education Objectives El Yunque National Forest 50
January 2009 Interpretation and Conservation Education Master Plan Development and enhancement of the precepts of these primary objectives by CE staff and partners will facilitate the ultimate implementation of our stated CE goals: • Awareness - We must help our youth and adult customers develop awareness of, and sensitivity towards the environment and its protection; • Knowledge – We must provide participants with the means to develop a current, fact-based, fundamental knowledge of tropical forest; • Attitudes - We must promote the development of a conservation ethic and a heartfelt commitment to ecological conservation; • Skills – We must actively promote the development of those skills needed to identify and solve environmental problems; • Participation – We must provide participants with multiple opportunities to participate and then to apply the skills they have learned to aid the conservation process in the schools and within the community. Conservation Education Themes El Yunque’s Conservation Education Staff has identified five (5) principal themes to guide the design and proper implementation of all Forest’s CE activities: • Puerto Rico’s forests are characterized by their extensive biodiversity and their complex interdependence. • Tropical forests provide free services that are indispensable to the maintenance of everyone’s quality of life. • We must work together to conserve our forests. • Tropical forests and their inhabitants have connections with the global community. • Global warming will critically impact the islands of the Caribbean; tropical forests substantially reduce the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Conservation Education Activities Activities are the modular “building blocks” vital for a conservation education program. Design of these activities will address the following parameters: 51 El Yunque National Forest Hanging Fern
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