1999
Vitória da Riva, owner of Cristalino Jungle Lodge, creates the Cristalino Ecological Foundation in Alta Floresta in order to protect the Cristalino State Park and the surrounding forests.
2000
Silvio Marchini creates the Amazonarium, motivated by his work as academic director at the School for International Training (SIT). The purpose of Amazonarium was to facilitate the arrival of researchers and students to the Amazon.
Vitória and Sílvio meet in Sao Paulo and create a partnership to bring visitors to the Cristalino Jungle Lodge.
2002
Vitória and Sílvio create an environmental education project called the School of the Amazon for groups of visitors and students from around the Cristalino State Park.
2003
First workshop takes place in the Cristalino Jungle Lodge. The participants are students from public schools in Alta Floresta.
Edson Grandisoli, Biology teacher at Bandeirantes and Vera Cruz - high school, both in São Paulo, becomes the Educational Coordinator of the project.
Edson brings to the School of the Amazon the first group of student visitors. The visiting school is the Bandeirantes, from Sao Paulo. Since then, Bandeirantes has participated every year in workshops at the School of the Amazon.
2004
The Vera Cruz School enter the project and has participated every year in the workshops.
2005
The School of the Amazon becomes part of the Cristalino Ecological Foundation (FEC).
The local component of the School of Amazon gains strength developing activities with rural public schools around the Cristalino State Park in Alta Floresta.
FEC, with the support of Fauna & Flora International, starts the Spider Monkey Project aiming to educate and raise awareness about the importance of the Cristalino State Park. The workshops use part of the methodologies developed by the School of the Amazon.
2006
The School of the Amazon, in partnership with the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), at University of Oxford (United Kingdom), launches the People & Jaguars Project, which seeks to understand and improve - through education - the relationship between people and jaguars in an agricultural frontier of the Amazon.
2007
The Twinning Schools Program is launched in Alta Floresta, with the donation of more than 1000 books to a public school in Alta Floresta, by Bandeirantes.
School of the Amazon wins the Whitley Award, at the Royal Geographic Society in London. The Whitley Award is considered the "Green Oscar". The award is invested in the expansion and consolidation of the Twinning Program.
Correspondence Project is launched. In this project, students from other parts of Brazil are introduced as pen pals to students from public schools in the Amazonian agricultural frontier.
Development of Workshop on Alternative Practice (handicrafts, beekeeping, fisheries, etc.) and workshops "A Day in the Forest" with the support of the HSBC Solidarity Institute.
2008
School of the Amazon starts a partnership with TAM Kids in-flight magazine, producing articles about the project and Amazonia every other months.
Blog Amazonarium is created to disseminatenews about the project and Amazonia.
School of the Amazon is one of the chapters in the book "Ensinar é Criar Oportunidades" (Teaching creates Opportunities). The book describes 15 examples of successful and innovative educational projects in Brazil.
School of the Amazon releases the "Guia de Convivência Gente e Onças" (People and Jaguars: a Guide for Coexistence).
School of the Amazon is highlighted in the 2008 World Savers Award, granted for Cristalino Jungle Lodge by the Condé Nast Traveller.
School of the Amazon mentioned in the book "101 Inovações Brasileiras" (101 Brazilian Innovations) as the key component in the sustainability of Cristalino Jungle Lodge.
2009
School of the Amazon publishes "People and Jaguars: a Guide for Coexistence" in Spanish (Guía de Convivencia Gente y Jaguares) in partnership with Panthera, distributed in several Latin America countries.
School of the Amazon publishes two books of activities (based on the book People and Jaguars: a Guide for Coexistence), used in communication campaigns directed at the rural schools of Alta Floresta, in southern Amazonia.
Móbile School becomes a partner of the School of the Amazon. |
