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Berkeley Nonprofit Worker Participates In Project Dragonfly
Berkeley resident Lili Rapa is participating in a new course with conservationists from around the world.
Press release from Miami University's Project Dragonfly:
September 28 2020
OXFORD, OH-- Berkeley, Calif. (94703), resident Lili Rapa, a Global Field Program (GFP) student from Miami University's Project Dragonfly, is participating in a new course with conservationists from around the world to launch a conservation campaign for positive ecological and social change.
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Miami's Dragonfly team developed the course, titled "Earth Expeditions: Connected Conservation (EECC)," in response to the global health crisis and as an alternative to the summer Earth Expeditions travel field courses that take placr in 15 countries throughout the world.
Rapa works as a development assistant at Coral Reef Alliance in Berkeley.
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Rapa was part of an EECC student team who worked together to help support the ongoing work of Dragonfly's Namibia partner, Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF), an internationally recognized center of excellence in the conservation of cheetahs and their ecosystems. The team created curriculum for high school students. The curriculum addresses cheetah conservation in Namibia and the work of CCF by challenging students to research one of six major stakeholders impacting cheetah survival. Students apply their learning and problem-solving skills to a new, relevant scenario, like Covid-19, in a collaborative, UN-style discourse.
CCF conducts research and implements strategies for cheetah conservation in the cheetah's natural habitat. From its Namibian base, CCF works with countries that have wild cheetah populations. More information about CCF can be found at https://cheetah.org.
Project Dragonfly's Earth Expeditions graduate courses engage people in firsthand educational and scientific research at critical conservation field sites in Africa, Australia, Asia and the Americas. Dragonfly is located in the department of biology at Miami University, a state university in Oxford, Ohio, USA. Miami was established in 1809 and is listed as one of the eight original Public Ivies.
Learn more about Project Dragonfly on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/PrjDragonfly.
This press release was produced by the Miami University's Project Dragonfly. The views expressed here are the author’s own.
