BIODIVERSITY PROTECTION
Are you a teacher of students aged 10-16, or an environmental education lecturer at a zoo, rescue or rehabilitation station? Are you looking for meaningful and playful tools for teaching nature conservation and biodiversity?
Our materials are made here for you!
Environmental education can be not only informative or theoretical, but also fun and inspiring, practical, creative. Using an imaginative story of the mystical animal AVATAR CAVE (Avatar cavernosus), we create innovative forms of learning that:
- raise awareness of the need to protect biodiversity,
- connect outdoor education with digital technologies and play (game-based learning),
- support critical thinking and responsible environmental behavior,
- teach responsibility for your action in your local environment,
- inspire students to use social networks to spread constructive and positive ecological stories,
- point out the necessity of reducing our dreadful impact on biodiversity loss.
Try and get involved:
AVAgame – board game
Experience an exciting simulation game in which you become an AVATAR seeker. You decide on resources, strategy and the impacts of your actions – all with a connection to financial literacy and ecological thinking.
AVAtrails – mobile application
Discover the biodiversity of your surroundings thanks to an interactive educational trail directly on your mobile. A naturalist guide to selected locations that will immerse you in the secrets of local flora and fauna. Just choose one from the list if you are in that place, and then you begin your learning joyful way…
AVAworksheets
Get inspiration on how to teach about biodiversity in the classroom and outdoors. Prepared activities support experiential learning and connection with the local ecosystem.
AVAchallenges – calls for biodiversity
Get involved with your students in concrete actions – from cleaning habitats to observing and recording species. Be a part of Nature ‘s Hero group!
Download materials, participate in challenges, and become part of the story of biodiversity conservation with CAVE AVATAR!
Meet: CAVE AVATAR (Avatar cavernosus)
This extraordinary, 50 cm long fantastic animal with warty limbs and claws is one of the most mysterious inhabitants of cave waters. It is adapted to life in extreme conditions – it cannot see, it cannot breathe like ordinary animals, and it curls up into a defensive ball when threatened.
It is a cave cleaner who eats detritus and remains of dead bodies of other species and thus maintains balance in the ecosystem. At the same time, it is a bioindicator of environmental quality – its survival depends on a stable microclimate and cave clean water.
Unfortunately, climate change and water pollution seriously threaten it.
The cave avatar species could be classified as an endangered species according to the IUCN criteria.
Help us spread awareness about its importance and the need for nature protection through meaningful education!