CDP Biodiversity Project

CDP Biodiversity Project is a project executed by Mágoulo’s School for the Spiritually Gifted in partnership with Camp Deerpark’s Biodiversity Stewardship programming in order to survey, protect, and restore the ecological biodiversity of Camp and its surrounding area. This project includes two major efforts: education of stakeholder’s in biodiversity stewardship and direct projects to manage biodiversity at the Camp. This project is strong in the STEM and HWE project areas.

CDP Biodiversity Project uses the CDP-BP and BP-TODO forum tags (the later for “to-do” list items).

Outputs

• Creation Field Guide: Participants create field guide pages that help visitors to the Camp grounds and website identify animal species and recognize how they thrive and what they contribute to the creation community and ecology of Camp. This furthers Biodiversity Stewardship education.
• Life Tree: Participant’s create a personal “life list” of creatures they have encountered at Camp or studied while categorizing each species taxonomically (according to hierarchical classification). A leader board is kept for largest trees and most nodes added within a given time period. This furthers Biodiversity Stewardship education.
• Horizons Food Forest: Participants manage a soil regeneration, nursery, and garden project involving animal husbandry, permiculture, and agroforestry with native plants to maintain and the biodiversity of Camp’s forests and meadows while producing food and sequestering carbon.
• Invasive Crafts: Participants use harvested invasive species to create raw and value-added products to add predation pressure to invasive species and give native species an advantage. The long-term goal would be to develop products that could add economic incentive for humans to be involved in invasive species mitigation.