AT: Monarch Conservation Webinar Series – Community Engagement in Monarch Conservation

Virtual.  Free.  This offering is part of the 2024 Monarch Joint Venture Monarch Conservation Webinar series.  Webinars occur on the  3rd or 4th Tuesday each month and are free.  Registration required, complete registration here.

Stay connected with the latest monarch conservation topics by attending our free monthly webinars. This series is a unique opportunity to hear from experts across various interdisciplinary fields related to monarchs, other pollinators, their habitats, and the threats and pressures that make conservation urgent. Bring your questions and get ready to discover how you can get involved to protect monarchs.

All webinars are one hour long and occur at 1:00pm – 2pm CST.

January 23rd webinar: Community Engagement in Monarch Conservation through the Arts 

Crochet and Conservation presented by Yesenia Juarez, Fiber artist and founder of Little Village Busy Bees: How do you get the public excited about Monarch conservation? You make it fun!

Monarch Caterpillars into Butterflies, Children into Scientists, & Parents into Participants! presented by Carolina Benitez, El Valor Education Manager and Veronica Nieto, El Valor Health, Nutrition, and Safety Manager: The monarch is used in classrooms and home-based programs, as well as a way to engage parents in their child’s education and as a way to promote community engagement and nature conservation in communities of Chicago. Through this tool, we have successfully increased parental participation and improved science instruction for both Early Head Start and Head Start, while assisting the US Forest Service with its conservation mission. This project has implications for diverse audiences and has served as a way to encourage vocabulary acquisition, foster understanding of geography, spatial reasoning, stimulate observation, and investigation. Participants will learn how El Valor has utilized and encouraged parents to explore nature in urban communities while supporting their child’s learning and awareness of nature conservation through the Monarch Butterfly.

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