6.3 Conservation Opportunities and Incentives
• Te Triangle Chapter of the Safari Club International and NCWRC sponsor the Sensory Safari trailer, a mobile, kid-friendly exhibit that encourages conservation of our native wildlife, promotes hunter education, and enables students to see and touch some of the game and nongame species found in North Carolina. • NCWRC’s mobile aquarium provides students with an opportunity to learn about dif- ferent aquatic communities. Te mobile aquarium features two 300-gallon tanks that display coldwater fsh such as trout in one tank and warmwater fsh such as sunfsh in the other tank. Te twin tanks are permanently mounted inside a trailer where artif- cial habitat insets have been made for the tanks to provide natural-looking settings for diferent fsh assemblages. • Project WILD workshops are for adults interested in teaching young people about wild- life. Participants receive the Project WILD K–12 educator guide along with materials specifcally about NC wildlife. Te educator guide contains more than 150 hands-on activities that focus on wildlife and natural resources. A similar program, Aquatic WILD, uses the format of Project WILD activities and professional training workshops but with an emphasis on aquatic wildlife and aquatic ecology. Both Project WILD and Aquatic WILD provide correlations to the NC K–5 Science Essential Standards for education. • Other student education programs include the CATCH (Caring for Aquatics Trough Conservation Habits) workshop. CATCH provides a curriculum guide to explore ways to teach about aquatic environments through fsh biology, outdoor ethics, water safety, and fshing skills. Techniques and activities are geared for children ages 8–15. Other opportunities utilize technology by connecting classroom students with wildlife educa- tors using distance-learning videoconferencing technology. • Flying WILD workshops provide activities to teach middle school students about birds, their migration, and what people can do to help birds and their habitats. Te activities can be used to teach classroom lessons or to set up service-learning projects about birds and their habitats. Outdoor skill experiences are hands-on, participatory training that increase a person’s ability to enjoy and experience wildlife resources (e.g., orienteering, fy fshing, cooking game). Women who are interested in connecting with the outdoors can take advantage of the Becoming an Outdoors Woman (BOW) program. BOW is an international program that provides women age 18 and older the opportunity to learn outdoor skills through hands-on experiences. In North Carolina, BOW workshops are usually sponsored through partner- ships with wildlife clubs. Workshops are held in many locations across the state, ofering learning opportunities on a variety of outdoor skills, including fshing, boating, hunter
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