THINK
GLOBALLY,
ACT LOCALLY
Niños y Crías means "Kids and Critters" in English... and that's who we work with. Niños y Crías has many projects going on at any one time around the Yucatan Peninsula. We're involved with educating children and their parents about the environment. We are all about participation in tracking and observing wildlife, especially flamingos and other birds. And we are active participants in the restoration of habitats for birds and other creatures.
We've got a lot going on, and you are welcome to participate. Explore our website and learn more about us!
Welcome to Niños y Crias!
We are a non-profit organization, established in 1999.
We got our start in the sands of the Ria Lagartos
Biosphere, and our main objective is to give life
and continuity to local environmental education programs,
to help conserve local jungle and water habitats, to
rehabilitate disturbed ecosystems and to develop sustainable
human communities to support the ecosystems.
We decided that it is very important to learn to conserve nature from a very young age, and for this reason, we focus on a very important sector of the public: the CHILDREN.
If we can sensitize and educate those who in the future will be responsible for the health of the planet, we will be forming human beings capable of acting on behalf of the environment. By doing this, we will fulfill the mission that is what we work for every day: “Learn to conserve Nature”.
We have good news for you!
We gave ourselves the assignment of creating a new educational program, one that would help teach an ethics of caring for the environment and would create children and adults who feel more responsibility for the natural world around them. The result is La Caravana de Niños y Crías (the Kids ‘n Critters Caravan). Read more in our July bulletin: Boletín Informativo de Julio
Niños y Crías has begun a campaign to renew the use of traditional cloth bags in the Yucatan. Click here to see a presentation about the dangers of using plastic bags. Do you want to do social service, help with environmental education? Come to Niños y Crías and participate with us! (Click here for information about La Caravana)
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Fashionable bags with a message about nature, plush toys, keychains, logo mugs, t-shirts, garbage bags and much more... all profits support the animals! |  |
Painting Exhibit in Benefit of Niños y Crías AC
Come visit the nature painting exhibit performed by 22 yucatecan artists, at Casa de la Cultura de la Universidad Interamericana del Norte, Paseo Montejo 498 x 45, one block away from Remate. Profits will benefit Niños y Crías. Open until February 4th, monday - friday 10am - 6pm, saturday 9am - 1pm, sunday 10am - 2pm
Sunday, February 1, 11a.m.: Great closing ceremony of Painting Expo, with artists present. For kids: we’ll have puppet theatre, wildlife coloring workshop and projection of videos about regional birds.
Remember, you may bike since it’s Bicirruta day !!!!!
Photo of the Month
Migratory Bird Day in San Felipe
