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Our Shared Forests
Our Shared
Forests (OSF) is Ecuador and Georgia's Migratory Bird Partnership
through Integrated Conservation, Bird Monitoring and Environmental
Education. In Ecuador, OSF targets science-based habitat conservation
throughout the Choco Andean Corridor, one of the earth’s top five
biodiversity hotspots. While, in both Ecuador and Georgia, it aims at
creating awareness about 10 bird species that migrate between both
regions. OSF is designed to be socially, environmentally and financially
sustainable. It is a bi-national partnership between the Ecuadorian NGO
Fundación Maquipucuna, the University of Georgia’s State Botanical
Garden, and the Chocó Andes Alliance and APROCANE associations of
farmers and landowners in Northwest Ecuador.
Overall, this project is designed to bring
light to the importance of conserving existing habitats and
reestablishing fragmented habitats of neotropical migrant birds.
Neotropical migrants are birds that spend their winters in North America
and their summers in Central and South America. Habitats of these birds
are becoming fragmented as trees are cut down for timber, development
and agriculture.
Your students can learn about conservation
and so much more by participating in an Our Shared Forests Family
Science Night.
What is Family Science Night?
A Family Science Night is an evening program of science activities in
which students and their parents can work together on simple,
age-appropriate, inquiry-based science activities. The program uses
readily available, low-cost materials.
This Our Shared Forests Family Science
Night link provides tips for a successful science night and access to
descriptions of all the station activities.
Family Science Night page
Master List of
Contents for items included
in the kit.
Terms of the Contract
for borrowing the kit.
To check out a Science Night Kit contact
Susan Meyers
Confederate Hall Historical and Environmental Education Center
Stone Mountain Memorial Association
Stone Mountain Park
Phone (404) 388-8228 cell
Other kits available for checkout:
Garden Earth Naturalist
Science Night Kit
Monarch Box
EnviroScape®
Wetlands
Unit
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