📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The San José Educational Park was founded in 1995 with the aim of providing a space for recreation and knowledge of biodiversity. They promote research, management and recovery of flora and fauna in captivity or in different natural areas in the state. We have 16 hectares of pine-oak forest that characterizes the region. It is a place to discover the flora and fauna of the region through the small zoo and an epifitario (a place where they preserve epiphytes) and is open to locals and students from different schools that come to the different workshops, and it is open too to national and international tourism.
💼 What the programme involves
1.-MANAGEMENT AND PROMOTION
* Promotion and diffusion.
* Support in managing social networks (Facebook) to
promote the park.
* Development of promotional materials
* Create a promotion plan
* Translate the Park Guide’s map
* Support management activities and operation of the park
2. ENVIRONMENTAL CULTURE
This area aims to sensitize the inhabitants of the communities in the region, students and visitors in general, regarding the environment-society relationship as structural basis for sustainable ways of life as well as promoting social values and raise awareness about the environmental problems and help them manage natural resources.
Activities that may develop:
* Planning, Design and Implementation of the interpretive
trail "Abronia".
* Display the path of Ecosystem Wildlife Educational Park
San Jose’s Guide.
3. ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING.
In this area we promote the interests of children, youth and adults of different grade levels of public and private institutions for the care of the environment and conservation of natural resources and mitigation of climate change through different activities:
* Develop proposals to create educational support material and briefing papers on environmental concerns.
* Develop workshops with environmental issues for working with children baseline.
* Construction of a space for the collection of solid waste materials.
4. FLORA
Activities that may develop:
* Maintenance of the Epifitario (the meaning of the word refers to any plant that can grow on another plant using it as support, without damaging it).
* Maintenance of the mountain biking track. (4 km in aclosed circuit)
* Maintenance of the path t'e Na (exhibition of medicinal plants, shrubs and trees).
* Maintaining the compost and vermicompost.
(Management of organic matter)
5. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT UNIT / WILDLIFE
Activities that may develop:
* Taking care of the specimens on display and quarantine; diet preparation, and monitoring.
* Development of informative and educational materials on fauna.
* Preparation of animal enrichment program
* Collection of insects for feeding animals on display, quarantine and laboratory.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will stay at the VIVA volunteer house equipped with basic services such as water, gas,
electricity and a kitchen to prepare food. Volunteers will share a room with other volunteers. The housework is responsability of the volunteers.
ℹ️ Additional information
Volunteers must cover their own meals. The park is 9 km from the city, you can arrive by bus, so the volunteer must cover the cost of transportation ($ 6.00 one way).