By Helena Pita | Environmental Education Program Director
Community organizations of Drake Bay contacted us concerned about the situation faced by the community youth and asking us for help to face this situation. The community has few alternatives for training and healthy recreation for young people. This leaves them few options to enjoy their free time and makes them vulnerable to succumbing to alcohol or drugs.
For this reason, in 2021, we contacted Corcovado National Park to form a youth group as Junior Park Rangers.
Nine young people between the ages of twelve and seventeen from Drake College are training in wildlife monitoring with a Corcovado National Park Ranger. They have already received two theoretical workshops on identifying mammal tracks and the placement of camera traps. In addition, they are learning about the different institutions that protect the environment.
In our last session, the Junior Park Rangers were placing three camera traps inside a path of the Corcovado National Park. The Junior Park Rangers will be in charge of collecting the images from these cameras and identifying the fauna that appears in them. One of our young people wrote to us impatiently asking when we could collect the photos from the camera traps that we had placed.
We will be sharing them with you in our next newsletter. Thank you for helping us maintain our environmental education and community development activities.
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