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DESCARGA AQUÍ EL TEXTO EN ESPAÑOL COMO ARCHIVO PDF
Hi! we are the Tapir’s House (La Casa del Tapir)!... an environmental education initiative promoted by AndígenA foundation in partnership with other organizations from Latin America.
Tapir’s House arose on 2010 as idea of the venezuelan geographer Denis Alexander Torres and the colombian biologist Sergio Sandoval. Both professionals with a successful background in wildlife conservation issues in Latin America. Through Tapir’s House we have been working like a virtual center for spreading scientific and popular information about all tapir species. Our purpose is fostering the environmental education and public interest regarding these enigmatic creatures and reinforce another conservation intitiatives worldwide with emphasis in Latin America. Although tapirs are not so charismatic animals like the giant pandas or mountain gorillas, the public interest regarding their conservation is increasing step by step. As sample, our Facebook page is followed by more than 2,500 people from around the world and our educational materials are used by hundreds of teachers and students through Latin America.
Since the beginning, Tapir’s House activities has been carried out as a volunteer work due the lack of financial support to sustain them in a regular way. However, we must recognize an important and valuable support offered by a group of friends, honorary members and people identified with our noble cause. Our main aim is to produce a greater educational impact through the virtual scene and beyond. In order to reach this goal, we need your generous attention and support today.
BACKGROUND
Time, which sometimes acts for or against the conservation initiatives, it has allowed us recognize that ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION is the most effective strategy to guarantee the tapir conservation as well as the nature as a whole. Tapirs are endangered species due to poaching and habitat loss. Without education, people's rasing awareness will never be reached to recognize the importance of the tapirs and their habitat, which goes beyond the economic or aesthetic values. Recognizing the tapirs' ecological and cultural importance will make us their true protectors.
During last 3 years, we have kept an active environmental education work through the virtual scene on Internet and occasional visits to several localities through Latin America. Today, La Casa del Tapir is highlighted as a leader in the Tapir Conservation international scene.
“In the end, we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand and we will understand only what we are taught.” — Baba Dioum, 1968.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR NOW?
Tapirs’ global distribution overlap with many areas where day to day survival takes up all the people's time and energy. Unfortunately, in many areas the environmental conservation issues are generally a very low priority so the importance of any environmental conservation intitiative should not be underestimated. Working to save the tapirs will eventually bring in its wake other enormous benefits to the people and the nature as a whole. We hope this work will eventually enable the cycle of poverty to be well managed.
During june-september we want to carry out a special educational work to share awesome facts about tapirs. Also, we want to celebrate several virtual encounters to talk about the work carried out through Tapir’s House during last 3 years and to introduce a wonderful new project which we want to carry out in the near future.
In Venezuela, we will carry out the educational education work in partnership with Guarenas Repano Foundation, Guáquira Foundation and Esfera Foundation. In Colombia and Ecuador, our partners are “ Mountain Tapir Forever” Project and Andean Bear Foundation.
Saving the tapirs and their habitat will contribute towards:
- To conserve the tropical ecosystems, especially the rainforests and cloud forests.
- To protect the watersheds vital for the people and to irrigate the lands and to produce electric energy.
- To protect the soil from erosion so that the land will continue to support agriculture and to prevent natural disasters.
Tapirs are flagship species in the tropics; the symbol to foster important conservation issues in the most biodiverse regions on Earth.
AIMS
Increase people awareness in favor of tapirs’ conservation and their habitats with emphasis in countries like Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador:
- by developing hands-on, education activities for various grade levels.
- by using in the environmental education, the most updated information about tapir ecology.
- by creating and distributing educational materials for free use in educational centers and other community-base organizations.
- by using the lowland tapir and mountain tapir as “focal species” for the conservation in some wild areas from Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador, especially national parks.
Evaluate the effectiveness of the environmental education for future implementation in specific areas of the lowland tapir’s range in Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador:
- by measuring attitude changes in students and parents regarding the tapir conservation within the work areas.
WHAT DIFFERENCE CAN A FEW DOLLARS MAKE?
Maybe one single dollar means nothing to many people in developing countries, but for us in Latin America is a concrete possibility to sustain a wonderful long-term wildlife conservation project based on environmental education as strategy to spread interest and love for tapirs' conservation and their habitats. One single dollar can help us to sustain our active work to spread the word in favor to wildlife conservation.
Every dollar that you give to this campaign it will allows us to provide education to our closer neighbors, especially children from the urban and rural areas and sustain our informative page about tapirs on Facebook and blogspot, both entitled "La Casa del Tapir". Your support is a precious opportunity to recognize the real value of the nature and our responsibility with its future. Please, give us your sincere support today and so we together can make a difference to the environmental awareness raising.
WHAT THE MONEY RAISED WILL BE USED FOR?
The money raised through this campaign it will allow us to sustain the educational initiatives during next quarter (june-september 2022). We will produce new original educational materials in order to reinforce a distance learning program through our page on Facebook “La Casa del Tapir” and our website: https://lacasadeltapir.blogspot.com.
We Want:
- Pay professional fees linked to the production of educational materials (pamphlets, posters, educational sheets, multimedia slideshows, etc.).
- Pay administrative expenses (communication: mail, phone, internet, etc.).
- Pay hosting and domain for our Website.
- Eventually pay the living expenses (meals, accommodations and fuel) during the visits to educational centers (mainly elementary schools and high schools): 1 visit each 15 days / 3 people.
PROJECT OUTPUTS
- Publication of regular information through our Facebook Page “La Casa el Tapir” and website which can be freely used as educational tool by teachers at schools as well as the general public.
- Production of new pamphlets focused on tapir natural history and conservation.
- Production of a coloring book about lowland tapir.
- Development of a series of virtual conferences and talks as part of a Distance Learning Program.
OUTCOMES
- Students and their parents will get qualified information about tapirs and related environmental conservation issues.
- Children and adults will wake up a stronger awareness and commitment toward the tapir conservation and the environment.
- Government’s staff and community leaders will assume a more active role to reinforce local conservation programs.
- Our environmental education initiative will be used as a joint model for other conservation programs in Venezuela and eventually in neighboring countries.
UPDATES
We will be providing updates and work progress through our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/LaCasaDelTapir/ and the website: https://lacasadeltapir.blogspot.com/
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