Wildlife Conservation Belt Loop and Pin
Tiger Cubs, Cub Scouts, and Webelos Scouts may complete requirements in a den, pack, school, or community environment. Tiger Cubs must work with their parents or adult partners. Parents and partners do not earn loops or pins.
Requirements for Wildlife Conservation Belt Loop:
Explain what natural resources are and why it's important to protect and conserve them.
Make a poster that shows and explains the food chain. Describe to your Den what happens if the food chain becomes broken or damaged.
Learn about an endangered species. Make a report to your Den that includes a picture, how the species came to be endangered and what is being done to save it.
Requirements for the Wildlife Conservation Pin:
Earn the Wildlife Conservation Belt Loop and complete five more of the following requirements:
Visit a wildlife sanctuary, nature center or fish hatchery.
Collect and read five (5) newspaper articles that discuss conservation of wildlife and report to your family or Den what you learned.
Learn about five (5) animals that use camouflage to protect themselves.
Make a birdbath and keep a records for one (1) week f the different birds that visit it.
Make a collage of animals that are in the same class: fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds or mammels.
Make a plaster cast if an animal track. Show it to your Den.
Visit a person who works in wildlife conservation, such as a park ranger, biologist, range manager, geologist, horticulturist, zookeeper, fishery technician or conservation officer.
Visit a state or national park.
Participate in an envirnomental service project that helps maintain habitat for wildlife, such as cleaning up an area or planting trees.
Some resources that will help you earn the Wildlife Conservation Belt Loop and Pin: