{"id":1982,"date":"2009-12-10T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pasopacifico.org\/2009\/12\/primera-gira-de-bidiversidad\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T16:15:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T22:15:59","slug":"primera-gira-de-bidiversidad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pasopacifico.org\/primera-gira-de-bidiversidad\/","title":{"rendered":"Primera Gira de Bidiversidad"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>At Paso Pacifico, we’ve always been committed to education. Teaching about the environment from a young age is the best way to ensure that children grow up to value their natural resources and promote conservation.<\/p>\n <\/a>Since 2007, Paso Pacifico’s environmental education teacher, Julie Martinez, has been traveling around the Paso del Istmo, taking hands-on environmental curriculum to schools.<\/p>\n Last month, Julie took a group of schoolchildren from Sapoa (a small town on the shores of Lake Nicaragua), on our first ever Biodiversity Field Trip.<\/p>\n At the Museum of Tropical Dry Ecology in Diriamba, Julie and the kids learned about the regional climate, and about the ecology of dry forests, lakes, and volcano chains.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/a>In Masaya National Park, they visited the volcano, and learned about its forests and birds, as well as endangered species who inhabit the area.<\/p>\n For many of these children, this was the first time they’d ever left their communities. We hope to give many more kids the opportunity to travel and get a better understanding of Nicaragua’s forests and wildlife.<\/p>\n If you are interested in helping Nicaraguan schoolchildren explore the direct and indirect benefits of healthy ecosystems, we invite you to donate to our environmental education programs <\/a>today.<\/p>\n