beyond your backyard

habitat 2000

habitat 2000 encourages students and youth groups to dig in, get their hands dirty, and create wildlife habitat in their school yards and around the community. Through this program, the Canadian Wildlife Federation publishes an educational kit each year promoting the active participation of young Canadians in the conservation of wildlife across the country.

• As the educational component of National Wildlife Week, the program encourages students to initiate projects that will improve as much habitat as possible by the end of the year 2000 and provides some funding to qualified projects within Canada.
• Just as important are Habitat 2000's main learning objectives: inspiring youth to value our natural world while instilling in them a sense of responsible stewardship through habitat projects.
• The program achieves these goals, first, by cultivating students' awareness of conservation principles and, second, through hands-on habitat projects that enable participants to turn awareness into action.
• A different conservation theme is addressed every year, such as water resources, community action, biodiversity, sustainability, shoreline habitat, or endangered species recovery.
• To date, more than 300,000 Canadian youngsters have participated in the program.
• Habitat 2000 is just one of the Canadian Wildlife Federation's programs aimed at promoting conservation education. Other programs include Blue School, Learning About Oceans, Project WILD, Fish Ways, and Focus on Forests.
• For more information on Habitat 2000 or any of these other education programs visit the new WILD Education site at www.wildeducation.org