Leonardo DiCaprio Kicks Off IFAW Animal Action Week
Written by Vegetarian Star on October 6th, 2010 in Actors, Animal Issues, Children.
Leonardo DiCaprio has kicked off International Fund for Animal Welfare’s Animal Action Week, which is meant to get children involved with getting educated about animal welfare issues. The IFAW’s Animal Action Week is an 18 year old tradition that runs through October 10th, 2010.
This year’s theme for Animal Action Week is “Born to be Wild,” and it highlights the issue of tigers becoming extinct in the wild due to human influenced destruction like poaching and loss of habitat.
Tigers are dangerously close to vanishing forever,” said Mr. DiCaprio, an IFAW Honorary Board Member. “If we don’t want our children to grow up in a world where tigers are extinct, the time for action is now.”
IFAW’s Animal Action Week is estimated to reach about 5 million children worldwide. The Born to be Wild educational packet, available for download for free on the IFAW website, contains grade appropriate activities that introduce children to animal welfare issues. Although the programs are designed to teach people of all ages about animals, the IFAW materials are especially geared towards students aged 8-14. The pack contains separate curriculum for grades 3-4 and then 5-8.
Features of the IFAW educational package include an interactive tiger guide with videos, images, texts and quizzes, tiger craft activities, tiger origami, student pledge cards and more.
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