The GAIA Project

The GAIA Project GAIA is an international environmental program, that permits students to focus on solving specific environmental problems in their community.

Global Awareness Investigation and Action (GAIA) is an international environmental research project involving middle and high school students as scientific researchers and policy developers. Each school enrolled in the GAIA project focuses on solving a specific problem in its community through scientific research and sustainable program implementation. GAIA students perform their investigations as

if they were professional scientists. They identify an issue in their community, investigate it through scientific methods, share data with each other, and propose and jointly advocate solutions based on their research. Motivation to post data and participate in online peer review activities is significantly increased through periodic face-to-face meetings and joint field research trips. These interactions around scientific research naturally extend to social interactions where students forge new friendships and understanding across cultures
and faiths. GAIA projects provide multiple avenues of opportunity for students to learn through our unique partnerships with universities, environmental agencies, technology and engineering companies. Research projects prepare students for future studies in scientific fields and careers in high-tech or other environmental science related businesses.

Gaia students from WBAIS and Kfar Hayarok are saving endangered newts and lepidarus apus in a winter pond at Kfar Haya...
27/02/2022

Gaia students from WBAIS and Kfar Hayarok are saving endangered newts and lepidarus apus in a winter pond at Kfar Hayarok. This habitat will be destroyed by a plannned new housing development soon. Well done!

Just finished a very successful GAIA Greece Symposium
31/01/2022

Just finished a very successful GAIA Greece Symposium

04/10/2021
Out GAIA Cambodia Team is preparing for their first visit to Chi Phat, the Wildlife Release Station and the Phnom Tamao ...
02/10/2021

Out GAIA Cambodia Team is preparing for their first visit to Chi Phat, the Wildlife Release Station and the Phnom Tamao Rescue Center. Stay tuned!

Our GAIA Owl Mom feeding 5 of the 6 chicks. The 6th Chick hatched this morning!
08/04/2021

Our GAIA Owl Mom feeding 5 of the 6 chicks. The 6th Chick hatched this morning!

Date of egg layingתאריך הטלת הביצים 1- 25/22- 27/23- 1/34- 3/35- 5/56- 7/3Date of hatching תאריך הבקיעה1- 29/32- 30/33- 1/44- 3/45- 5/4To donate to Project B...

12/10/2020

Is it safe to use sugar water in sunbird feeders?
Click here to watch live https://bit.ly/34pU4rj
Sunbird physiology is vastly different than human physiology so one cannot say what is bad for humans will be bad for hummers. The chemical makeup of plant nectar is primarily 20-25% sucrose (plant sugar) and water. White table sugar, though heavily processed to make it white, it is still 99.97% sucrose. Sugar water placed in a feeders at a 4 parts water to 1 part sugar ratio is a 25% sucrose solution which is closely approximates the diet that sunbird have evolved to use most efficiently. To conclude, although humans would die on a sugar water diet only for sunbirds it is not only harmless but very close to its natural nectar diet.
אוניברסיטת חיפה - University Of Haifa
מכון שמיר למחקר Shamir Research Institute

05/10/2020

Are hummingbirds and sunbirds related? (English Below)
Click here to watch sunbirds live: https://bit.ly/3fZ0KBb
Hummingbirds live in the New World and sunbirds live in the Old World. Both birds are colorful and use long beaks to drink nectar found deep into flowers. Despite these similarities, sunbirds and hummingbirds are not related. In fact, hummingbirds are more closely related to swifts and sunbirds are more closely related to crows. The birds have evolved these morphological similarities to fill the same niche (to eat nectar). The process of two unrelated species evolving similar to perform the niche is called convergent evolution. There is one morphological difference between the two, hummingbirds can hover at a food source, but sunbirds must perch in order sip nectar from a flower. Hummingbirds can therefore pollinate plants that do not have a place to perch, whereas, sunbirds can only pollinate plants with leaves/branches that make perches.

22/07/2020

The GAIA PROJECT is currently having a "SNARE" campaign in support of the work of NIck Marx from the Wildlife Alliance in Cambodia. Check it out on www.forpeace.us

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