Join the Nature Guelph Bird Wing meeting to learn about bird conservation abroad in Costa Rica with Lilly Briggs, Finca Cántaros Environmental Association (FCEA), a Canadian-Costa Rican non-profit organization. Beat the late winter blues with this virtual trip to the FCEA headquarters in San Vito de Coto Brus, Costa Rica, to learn about ongoing efforts in bird conservation through education.
ATTENDING THIS MEETING: This meeting will be hosted online on Zoom with an option to join a group at Wild Birds Unlimited Guelph (987 Gordon St, Guelph, ON)
Registration is required to access the Zoom meeting. Register here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZIpdemuqT8pGtZLjpQIf1P5h2u95…
Environmental education is at the core of everything FCEA does, and we use birds and forest restoration as a vehicle for facilitating environmental education experiences for diverse audiences in the community. This talk will describe how in less than four years since its 2020 founding, FCEA has created and protected bird habitat, engaged kids and adults alike in bird-focused environmental education, and contributed to avian scientific research, and highlights how everyone—whether they live near or far—can get involved in hands-on positive action to help birds in Costa Rica.
SPEAKER BIO
Lilly Briggs, Founder & Director of Finca Cántaros Environmental Association, holds a PhD from the Department of Natural Resources at Cornell University. Throughout her Masters of Environmental Studies (from York University), PhD and postdoctoral years, she collaborated with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in developing BirdSleuth International (an environmental education and science curriculum focused on birds, conservation and citizen science) for audiences in Central and South America.
Lilly’s background in the social sciences focused on environmental education, international development studies and the human dimensions of conservation. As the founder and director of Finca Cántaros Environmental Association, she leads her team’s work on a variety of projects in collaboration with local, national and international partners. She is from British Columbia, Canada, and has been passionate about nature, birds and environmental education her whole life.
