Category: Education

Endangered Azuero howler monkeys, tadpoles, bats, birds, insects, and beautiful wildlife, all in the school yard April 2022. Headed to the airport after more than 2 years of pandemic restrictions was an exciting change. Finally, an opportunity to work with children again on conservation in primate-habitat communities!  Landing in Panama City, we drove SW down the Azuero Peninsula to arrive…

Partnering with the Rafiki Memorial Wildlife Conservation Initiative and the Bwindi Plus Primary School in Buhoma, Uganda, our PICC team spent an exciting week with local children, educators, parents and elders. Together, we explored information about mountain gorillas, the children learned how to take photos with a DSLR camera and use photography for conservation awareness, and gained skills in making…

Many students from the FARAKA Conservation Club had officially given up hope of seeing one of Madagascar’s most reclusive lemurs– the red-ruffed lemur– when a distinctly auburn-colored movement drew their eyes to the trees above. At long last, they had spotted one of Madagascar’s most critically endangered animals, whose habitat is restricted to the forests of the Masoala Peninsula in…