Loro Parque Fundacion starts Year of the Dolphin activities on World Ocean Day
On the occasion of World Ocean Day 8 June, the Loro Parque Fundacion started its educational activities on the Year of the Dolphin 2007. A new exhibition in Spainish, English and German with a focus on the threats of the whales and dolphins is on display in the Sea Classroom.
It will remain there until the end of the Western African Talks on Cetaceans and their Habitat conference (WATCH) in Tenerife. Moreover, six schools for handicapped children on Tenerife Island received materials from Loro Parque Fundación to build six dolphin models that will be exhibited during the WATCH conference.
The most important activity was the presentation of the new educational tool developed by the Loro Parque Fundación’s educational department: a virtual submarine called Nautilus. This is in fact a software application, which can be used to connect schools with the Sea Classroom online. This application is a video-conference tool, with a remote presentation screen and a chat room. At its opening, four schools of different Canary Islands were connected (Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote and El Hierro) to see a presentation on YoD 2007. Afterwards all the schools involved submitted questions through videoconference, audio or chat. The pupils were concerned about the threats faced by whales and dolphins and their conservation status around the world.
From now on, and until October, this tool will made available to schools and other institutions to raise awareness on the need to preserve small cetacean populations, and to negotiate a strong international agreement at WATCH.
The most important activity was the presentation of the new educational tool developed by the Loro Parque Fundación’s educational department: a virtual submarine called Nautilus. This is in fact a software application, which can be used to connect schools with the Sea Classroom online. This application is a video-conference tool, with a remote presentation screen and a chat room. At its opening, four schools of different Canary Islands were connected (Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote and El Hierro) to see a presentation on YoD 2007. Afterwards all the schools involved submitted questions through videoconference, audio or chat. The pupils were concerned about the threats faced by whales and dolphins and their conservation status around the world.
From now on, and until October, this tool will made available to schools and other institutions to raise awareness on the need to preserve small cetacean populations, and to negotiate a strong international agreement at WATCH.
