Thanks to a coloring book, fourth grade students learn about the scarlet macaw and its problems. (Courtesy of Yann Wauters)


Thanks to a coloring book, fourth grade


students learn about the scarlet macaw and its problems. (Courtesy of Yann Wauters)


Environmental education This experience using cameras for environmental education purposes follows work that began in 1995, when Vaughan and representatives of Punta Leona contacted Solórzano and Lizbeth Mora (current director of the school) to work on a campaign to raise awareness (of the macaw’s plight).


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As a result of this meeting, a coloring book was published, which has been used since by Solórzano in his classes. “Imagine that now I teach the children


of those grade school students who first used the book,” said the teacher and added: “We have been able to observe the change from generation to generation and now we can say that the species is recovering. And those people who formerly were macaw poachers have converted to collaborators of the project“.


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