Second Grade Service Learning Page
Let's Help the Jaguar!
What are we doing?
This year second graders are committed to help Costa Rica’s jaguars. Today, the main threat to current Costa Rican jaguar populations is no longer only poaching, but deforestation for the sake of agriculture.
We want to help them by making sure their habitat expands by supporting the
reforestation of Costa Rica’s Biological Corridor and/or buying more trap
cameras as we did last year. This way jaguars may move freely and safely!
This year second graders are committed to help Costa Rica’s jaguars. Today, the main threat to current Costa Rican jaguar populations is no longer only poaching, but deforestation for the sake of agriculture.
We want to help them by making sure their habitat expands by supporting the
reforestation of Costa Rica’s Biological Corridor and/or buying more trap
cameras as we did last year. This way jaguars may move freely and safely!
*What problems do Costa Rican jaguars have?
#1 Farmers cut down the trees in order to have more land for their cattle.
#2 Hunters kill some of the species that the jaguar eats leaving them without food.
*COnsequences
#1 Jaguar hunts domestic animals.
#2 The farmers hunt and kill jaguars.
*How are we helping?
1. Teaching our community about the jaguar's situation.
2. Cooperating with Panthera, an organization involved in wild cat conservation around the world.
3. With donations recolected from our River Unit Presentation, we will donate trap cameras so jaguars can be detected and monitored throughout our rainforests.
2. Cooperating with Panthera, an organization involved in wild cat conservation around the world.
3. With donations recolected from our River Unit Presentation, we will donate trap cameras so jaguars can be detected and monitored throughout our rainforests.
Jaguar's Interesting Facts
“A wild beast that can kill its prey with a single bound.”
It has the most powerful bite of all felines, even more than the lion and tiger.
The cubs can’t see during the first two weeks. They stay with their mom for the first six months.