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The Corporate Role in Inclusive STEM Education Opportunities

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With skills in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) of critical importance in today’s job market, the corporate sector plays a key role in ensuring that every student has access to meaningful STEM learning opportunities. This white paper explores how companies can prepare the next generation of STEM professionals by developing inclusive learning opportunities based around conservation concepts.

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Saving Bats From Decline

The Corporate Role in Preserving the Ecological and Economic Benefits of Bats
Sponsored by Ontario Power Generation

Bats are a unique group of animals with ecological, economical and cultural significance around the world. They are ubiquitous, with 1,300 species living on every continent but Antarctica. Insectivorous bats save agriculture billions of dollars through predation of a multitude of agricultural pests. Other bats eat fruit and nectar, acting as pollinators and spreading seeds of the fruit they eat, proving essential to the success of many food products like tequila and chocolate, consequently contributing to the global economy. With increased need, heightened interest and accessible technology, now is an opportune time for corporate landowners to engage in bat conservation projects.

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Enhancing Habitat Connectivity Through Corporate Conservation

The Private Sector Role in Reconnecting Habitat for Ecosystem Health and Resiliency
Sponsored by Bruce Power

Healthy habitats are necessary for plants and animals to survive and thrive. One measure of the health of a habitat is the degree to which it is isolated from other habitats by land management practices or development, commonly referred to as fragmentation. Fragmentation is one of the biggest threats to biodiversity across the planet, as it can prevent species from moving to hunt, mate, disperse to new areas or escape predators. When corporate landowners engage in ecological connectivity initiatives to reduce fragmentation, they are contributing to landscape-scale efforts that have benefits beyond the corporate footprint and across the entire ecoregion.

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Measuring the Success of Your Conservation Education Projects

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Whether it’s a hands-on science activity for students, teacher training, employee instruction, or a citizen science program for the community, all education projects submitted for Conservation Certification must contain an assessment. These assessments not only measure the success of your project, but the data and knowledge collected can be shared internally and externally, and the lessons learned can help make your program stronger.

This webinar will explore the various assessment tools available including:

Observation of new skills acquisition or collaborative learning
Assessing journals entries or student work
Gaining feedback from reflective sessions and other innovative techniques

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Thelma Redick, Wildlife Habitat Council

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Awareness and Community Engagement Project Guidance

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Awareness and community engagement projects target a wide variety of learners who attend conservation-themed events and tours involving the corporate habitat. Awareness and community engagement projects are extremely important as gateway experiences for diverse audiences to gain knowledge of an important conservation topic or first-hand experience with their local habitat.

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Using Employee Education to Strengthen your Volunteer Team: The “Lunch and Learn” Approach

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Join WHC staff from the Biology and Education Department where you will learn how employee education, through “Lunch and Learns”, is an effective way to strengthen your volunteer team for both Wildlife at Work and Corporate Lands for Learning programs. “Lunch and Learns” are training events scheduled during the lunch hour, which provide learning and training opportunities that might not otherwise fit into a busy workday. By offering the training sessions at lunch time, these “Lunch and Learns” can garner more interest in your programs, gain further support from the workforce on-site, and encourage more people to join your volunteer team. Through this course, participants will learn how “Lunch and Learns” can improve employee skills, increase attention and recognition of team efforts and accomplishments, create awareness of particular issues, and improve internal communication about your programs. In addition, case studies are presented from Wildlife at Work and Corporate Lands for Learning programs that successfully utilize the “Lunch and Learn” approach to employee education.

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Citizen Science: Strengthen Your Habitat Projects and Contribute to the Scientific Community

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Join Julie Napolitano and Erin Sweeney from the Wildlife Habitat Council, with special guest Karen Loughrey of Project Noah, for an online course on “citizen science,” the practice of conducting scientific research with the support of amateur or nonprofessional scientists. We will explore how you can use Project Noah, a free mobile application to explore and document local wildlife, to strengthen your conservation education and habitat enhancement efforts. You will learn about Project Noah “missions,” a way to track wildlife encounters and collectively document plants and animals in a given area, and how you can create your own missions to support your program goals. As an added bonus you will hear about our customized Wildlife Habitat Council Mission, and how to participate.

The course will also address:

Additional citizen science projects and how involving citizens can help with your community involvement and outreach goals.
How participating in citizen science plays an important role in contributing data to the scientific community.

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On-line Tools for Connecting to the World of Conservation

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Join the Wildlife Habitat Council’s Director of Field Programs and guests from the conservation community as we explore on-line tools for visioning growth and enhancement of your wildlife habitat and community engagement programs. We’ll take an in-depth look at three state-of-the-art resources that you can harness: the Conservation Registry, LandScope America and the National Atlas. This course is perfect for those beginning programs—or those in advanced stages of conservation and community engagement.

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Using Trails as Pathways for Conservation Education and Wellness

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During this online learning course WHC Education Specialist, Rebecca Culler, and the Sunflower Foundation’s Program Officer, Elizabeth Stewart, will converse with the WHC Director for Conservation Education and Outreach, Thelma Redick on the effective use of trails. Join the course to gain a deeper understanding on the potential role of trails in WHC conservation and education programs, as well as wellness initiatives. Trails can help your team meet goals in education by providing a platform for learning, including active and STEM-based programs, as well as present a safe and interesting location for instilling a wellness ethic with your community.

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Building a Program on Your Remediation Site

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This course is tailored to those considering a habitat enhancement or education based program on their remediation sites. WHC is seeing an increased desire from companies to involve their closed or legacy site locations into WHC programs. These sites present many opportunities, but with challenges such as a lack of employee presence or negative community perceptions, how can a team successfully advance their habitat or education goals?

Join us for this one hour session to hear guest speakers from Bridgestone Americas, Inc., The Boeing Company, and BASF Corporation as they share their insights into creating successful wildlife habitat and education programs on their corporate remediation sites. This course will focus on the value and benefits of creating a habitat or education program on a remediation site, ways to engage the community in outreach and education initiatives, examples of successful projects, and strategies for overcoming common obstacles that are specific to the remediation context.

Learning goals:

Learn the value and benefits of implementing habitat initiatives on remediated sites
Learn ways to overcome common obstacles and challenges when implementing habitat initiatives on remediated sites
Learn strategies for community engagement through outreach and education initiatives related to your remediation program
Learn examples of successful programs implemented on remediation sites

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