Today we compared impacts that animals have on the environment (such as beaver, gopher tortoises, fire ants) to impacts of humans (farming, development, pollution). We watched a short video about gopher tortoises by FWC that was on a blog page by Defenders of Wildlife: https://defenders.org/blog/2015/05/gopher-tortoise-celebrating-keystone-species. And then we discussed an interesting conservation technique of growing coffee in shade:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fXBZ-a4ohk. This practice creates habitat for birds and other rainforest animals while also producing coffee, which helps the local economy and people.