{"id":4939,"date":"2023-09-05T16:45:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T19:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rutadelosparques.org\/en\/?p=4939"},"modified":"2023-09-25T16:54:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T19:54:20","slug":"defenders-of-cerro-castillo-national-park-education-and-recreation-in-the-home-of-the-huemul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rutadelosparques.org\/en\/defenders-of-cerro-castillo-national-park-education-and-recreation-in-the-home-of-the-huemul\/","title":{"rendered":"Defenders of Cerro Castillo National Park: Education and recreation in the home of the huemul"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With about 50 centimeters of snow and under a sunny sky, about twenty students from the Liceo Bicentenario Rural Cerro Castillo walked with snowshoes to find huemules in the Las Horquetas, a place adjacent to the Cerro Castillo National Park in the commune of R\u00edo Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez.<\/p>\n

Guided by the Ma\u00f1ke Chile team, an organization that works in nature education from early ages to adulthood throughout the Ays\u00e9n Region, the students walked in groups, with the support of a mapping application and binoculars, making decisions to spot our beloved southern deer.<\/p>\n

For Omar Leiva Penrose, in charge of school coexistence at the Liceo Bicentenario de la Villa, these educational activities have an additional component when carried out outdoors, reinforcing other concepts that are difficult to achieve in the classroom. \u201cIt is precious this way of teaching, to be able to perform these activities allows us not only to have contact with nature, but to learn to live with it, and learn together, as a team, how to take care of it, how to protect it, how to take good advantage of it, without damaging the ecosystem. These practices are not easy to achieve in the classroom,\u201d says Leiva.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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One of the participants in the walk was Nahel Figueroa, a second-year student from the town of Puerto Ingeniero Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez. It was his first time walking with snowshoes, and he considered this experience as an approach to his dream of being a high mountain guide and raising awareness about the threats to the huemul. \u201cIt is an essential animal because it is in danger of extinction, and the largest number of specimens are right here in the Ays\u00e9n Region, and we must protect them. We must take care of them,\u201d said Nahel.<\/p>\n

The educational team of Ma\u00f1ke Chile, its founder Karen Sandoval, explained that this group of students already know them, working on different topics during the first semester in an environmental education program. In this walk, they reinforced their learning by looking for a connection with the place.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe it is a very nice way to get to know our home, to understand how this ecosystem also works in winter and how we are linked to each season of the year in these it,\u201d explained Karen Sandoval.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This activity is part of the Friends of Cerro Castillo National Park Program of Fundaci\u00f3n Rewilding Chile. It is achieved thanks to a collaboration agreement that seeks to permanently provide tools to these young people so that in the future, they will be the defenders of this national park.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe firmly believe that the connection with nature, teaching outdoors, immersed in this winter Patagonia, which is also very close to where they live, the village, is the way to value and defend this house and all the ecosystems where the huemul is involved,\u201d said Francisca Calder\u00f3n, coordinator of the Friends of Cerro Castillo National Park program.<\/p>\n

We invite you to follow the activities and information of the program on the IG account @Amigos_PN_CerroCastillo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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