Tham khảo tài liệu 'zoos and animal welfare phần 6', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Youth and Community Development out-of-school-time providers to collaborate in Cultural After-School Adventures CASA . After school and on weekends CASA programs offer City youth enriching educational and diverse experiences. In the 2006 pilot CASA programs education staff at Bronx Zoo Prospect Park Zoo and New York Aquarium designed programs about ecology and the importance of wildlife conservation. They trained staff at after-school centers to engage children in multidisciplinary environmental learning activities. These programs included visits to the zoos or aquarium and family participation days. School visits to zoos can be influential in the future of zoos and the animals they help to protect. In the highly successful Distance Learning Adventures Bronx Zoo exhibits and animals are integrated into programming through the use of remote-controlled cameras and videoconferencing technology. Very popular with teachers across the country these courses are constantly being revised and updated and will soon feature live video feeds from the Madagascar exhibit. . . . Zoo Education and Conservation Throughout the New York metro area our parks provide abundant inspiration and staff expertise to communicate to the broad public the issues surrounding the decline of the wild. In part lack of awareness of these issues stems from a problem only recently named by social psychologists nature deficit syndrome. The disorder results from the overwhelming impact of technology and the imposition of the built environment which push nature from our collective psyches. From strategic locations in four New York City boroughs WCS education outreach overcomes the effects of this disorder by introducing young and old to environmental issues and inspiring action on behalf of threatened wildlife and habitats. At Prospect Park Zoo nearly 10 000 children and adult urban dwellers in Brooklyn were introduced to wildlife science in preschools libraries hospitals women s shelters after-school .
