WILD FRIENDS
Summer Fun Sheet

The following seven suggestions are easy summer activities related to wildlife education. Do four activities (check them off in the empty box as you go), and become a University of New Mexico WILD FRIEND! Find out how below.

 

1. Be a Wildlife Photographer

With a simple camera, take pictures of all the wildlife you can find in three hours. Develop the film, make an exhibit for your library or center.

2. TV Commercial

Cut out a large box to look like a TV set. Write one-minute TV commercials about three of your favorite wild animals. Act out the commercials to your friends, center, or school. (You also could do this with a video camera.)

3. Wildlife Habitat

Make a mini forest, prairie or desert habitat on a tray. Tiny rocks, plants and animals can be set into sand. Talk about how each plant or animal depends on the whole environment. Where do they find water, food and shelter?

4-5. Wildlife Speaker

4. Talk to someone who knows about wildlife. You could invite a grandparent or other older family member to come tell stories about wild animal encounters during their lifetimes (ask them what has changed over the years), or talk to the docents at the Rio Grande Zoo, or invite a docent to visit your center (842-7214)

5. Find out about wildlife laws, such as hunting and fishing laws (call New Mexico Game and Fish Department, 841-8881 in Albuquerque; 827-7911 in Santa Fe), or the Endangered Species Act (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 766-3940). If you can, look up wildlife and wildlife law on the Internet!

6. Decorate a Room

Get free wildlife posters and other materials for your room or community centers from New Mexico Game and Fish (841-8881), U.S. Fish and Wildlife (766-3940), and the U.S. Forest Service (842-3292), or cut out pictures from magazines and make your own posters.

7. Endangered Species

Read a book and watch a TV program or video about an endangered plant or animal. (If you can, visit the Albuquerque Biological Park, and/or American International Rattlesnake Museum, New Mexico Museum of Natural History, or Wildlife West.) Some endangered animals in New Mexico are:

  • Bald Eagle
  • Sanborn Longnose Bat
  • Big Horn Sheep
  • Black Bear
  • Black-tail Prairie Dog
  • Burrowing Owl
  • Gila Trout
  • Jemez Salamander
  • Mexican Gray Wolf
  • Mountain Lion
  • Peregrine Falcon
  • Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake
  • Box Turtle
  • Whooping Crane

HOW TO BECOME A University of New Mexico WILD FRIEND: (Classroom teachers too!!!)

Send us an E-Mail describing which four out of the seven activities described above you've completed-- Please include your name, address, the school you attend and your age.

OR

Print out this page with the form below and mail it to:
UNM Center for Wildlife Law, 1117 Stanford NE, Albuquerque, NM 87131.


When we receive it, your name will be added to the WILD FRIENDS membership list.

Your name (PLEASE PRINT) ______________________________________________

School you attend and your age ______________________________________________

City and state ___________________________________________________________

I did the following four WILD FRIENDS activities (circle):

Photographer
TV Commercial
Wildlife Habitat
Wildlife Speaker
Wildlife Laws
Decorate a Room
Endangered Species

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