Update April 25, 2024: President Joe Biden yesterday signed into law the Migratory Birds of the Americas Conservation Enhancements Act. Birds are everywhere at the school in Cañaveral, Colombia. Their songs fill the air. Their nests perch in flowerpots. And each Tuesday every classroom celebrates birds, from the short tales children write in Spanish class to science lessons about migratory journeys. Since 2021 around 450 kids at 8 schools in Colombia’s coffee belt have been immersed in these lessons that seek to build support for conservation. “Kids now know about the worms that birds bring to their chicks and the birds’ scientific names,” says John Edison Martínez Delgado, academic coordinator at Cañaveral school. “They’re always drawing them in their notebooks.” 探花精选 and a local university developed the curriculum for one of more than 700 projects funded through the U.S. Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act (NMBCA), the only federal grant program...