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New avenues for learning
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New avenues for learning

Africa, Community, Conservation, Conservation Education materials, ESD, PACE, South Africa, Southern Africa Wildlife College, TUSK

New avenues for learning

We are Nathashia Khosa, Siphokazi Sibeko and Bongiwe Hlabane. We are interns in the Southern Africa Wildlife College, in the Community and Youth Development department. Our internship is for a year. We live in a village called Welverdiend in Mpumalanga Province which is next to the Greater Kruger National Park where the college is located. We are one of the communities that was displaced by the park when it was created. This week the PACE coordinator visited. At the beginning of [...]

By PACE|2022-08-27T19:34:14+01:00August 27th, 2022|Africa, Community, Conservation, Conservation Education materials, ESD, PACE, South Africa, Southern Africa Wildlife College, TUSK|0 Comments

Caleb’s Frog champions.
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Caleb’s Frog champions.

Africa, Caleb Boateng-Ofori, Conservation, Conservation Education, Conservation evangelism, Endangered Species, ESD, Frog Conservation, Frogs Africa, Ghana, PACE, Teaching conservation, TUSK, Uncategorized

Caleb’s Frog champions.

A new evangelism is sweeping across Africa. When he was a young zoologist and learned that many frogs and other West African amphibians were in danger of extinction, persecuted because of a lack of knowledge, and misguided beliefs, Caleb Boateng-Ofori jumped into action. He focused his career on frogs, studied them to PhD level, and became the first professional herpetologist in Ghana. At just 40 he was a senior researcher with Ghana's research council. Independently, Caleb set up Herp conservation Ghana, [...]

By PACE|2022-08-15T11:11:49+01:00August 11th, 2022|Africa, Caleb Boateng-Ofori, Conservation, Conservation Education, Conservation evangelism, Endangered Species, ESD, Frog Conservation, Frogs Africa, Ghana, PACE, Teaching conservation, TUSK, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Painted dog conservation
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Painted dog conservation

Education, Endangered Species, ESD, Jo Taylor, Mozambique, PACE, Painted Dogs, Teaching conservation, TUSK, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Women in Conservation

Painted dog conservation

Jo Taylor, from the Karingani Game Reserve in Mozambique talked to our young conservationists about Painted Dogs yesterday - as guest speaker in the second of this season's PACE webinar series. Jo is a field ecology technician on Karingani Game Reserve in Mozambique. She manages wildlife monitoring across 150,000 ha of Karingani, a privately managed reserve, that is part of a vast conservation landscape that includes Kruger national park in eastern South Africa, and contiguous national parks and conservation areas in [...]

By PACE|2022-08-06T14:14:33+01:00August 3rd, 2022|Education, Endangered Species, ESD, Jo Taylor, Mozambique, PACE, Painted Dogs, Teaching conservation, TUSK, Uncategorized, Wildlife, Women in Conservation|0 Comments

Young conservationists across Africa learn about Turtle conservation
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Young conservationists across Africa learn about Turtle conservation

Conservation Education, ESD, Lamcot, PACE, Teaching conservation, Turtle conservation, TUSK, Uncategorized

Young conservationists across Africa learn about Turtle conservation

Young people from across Africa came together to launch the 2022 PACE webinars today. Atwaa and Teresa from Lamcot on Lamu island in Kenya gave a fascinating presentation on Sea turtle conservation, followed by an hour long Q & A session. Nearly 100 participants joined us, using a wide range of equipment and settings: school and university students, wildlife clubs, youth groups, teachers and conservation educators, logging in from Victoria Falls, Hwange and Vumba National Parks in Zimbabwe, from South Africa, [...]

By PACE|2022-08-04T12:26:46+01:00July 26th, 2022|Conservation Education, ESD, Lamcot, PACE, Teaching conservation, Turtle conservation, TUSK, Uncategorized|0 Comments

PACE digital – integrating conservation education into classroom teaching.
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PACE digital – integrating conservation education into classroom teaching.

Africa, Competency Based teaching, Conservation Education, Digital Literacy, ESD, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, PACE, TUSK

PACE digital – integrating conservation education into classroom teaching.

Lewa Wildlife conservancy in Kenya has a groundbreaking Digital Literacy Programme. By kitting out schools with digital equipment, digitising curriculum material and training teachers on how to use these they have hugely increased the quality of education, and learning outcomes, for kids living in previously marginalised rural conservation areas. In 2020 PACE started working with the DLP. They created a PACE channel containing 214 PACE conservation education resources and added this to the Lewa schools 'intranet.' More than 94% of PACE [...]

By PACE|2022-05-13T11:26:40+01:00May 13th, 2022|Africa, Competency Based teaching, Conservation Education, Digital Literacy, ESD, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, PACE, TUSK|0 Comments

Young conservationists making a difference, with LCMO Tanzania.
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Young conservationists making a difference, with LCMO Tanzania.

Conservation Education materials, LCMO, PACE, Tree planting, TUSK

Young conservationists making a difference, with LCMO Tanzania.

Children's trees ready for planting Despite the constraints of the past two years, Emmanuel Stephens Lekundayo's Landscape and Conservation Mentors Organization have not just maintained their conservation education work but extended. In 2020 and 2021 they reached 550 new learners in 19 schools with quality, relevant conservation education materials. LCMO work with communities in the Katavi National Park area in western Tanzania. Every week they run a session in each of their schools, and we've been pleased and [...]

By PACE|2022-02-16T22:45:25+00:00February 16th, 2022|Conservation Education materials, LCMO, PACE, Tree planting, TUSK|0 Comments

for partners in west and central Africa

the PACE supplement 'Energy and climate change' is now available in french - for more information contact pace@tusk.org

By PACE|2022-02-14T14:34:31+00:00February 14th, 2022|Activities, Africa, Climate Change, Climate smart agriculture, Community, Conservation, Conservation agriculture, Conservation Education materials, Energie et changement climatique, Energy & Climate Change, ESD, french educational resources, Kariba REDD+ Project, PACE, Sahel, Teachers Africa, TUSK|0 Comments

Bee keeping action sheet
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Bee keeping action sheet

Africa, Bee keeping, Climate smart agriculture, Conservation Education materials, Empowering women, ESD, Kariba REDD+ Project, PACE, Subsistence farming, TUSK, Uncategorized

Bee keeping action sheet

Human beings have been collecting honey and other products from wild bees for thousands of years. But it can be difficult to find wild bee nests and can be risky to remove the honey. Beekeeping on the other hand, is a fantastic way to conveniently access your own supply of honey, at little cost. As well as providing honey and wax for home consumption, honeybee products can be sold to provide a good income, either locally or on a bigger scale. [...]

By PACE|2022-01-14T21:52:32+00:00January 14th, 2022|Africa, Bee keeping, Climate smart agriculture, Conservation Education materials, Empowering women, ESD, Kariba REDD+ Project, PACE, Subsistence farming, TUSK, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Vertical Conservation Agriculture at Ntalabany Primary School in Kenya.
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Vertical Conservation Agriculture at Ntalabany Primary School in Kenya.

Activities, Climate smart agriculture, Conservation agriculture, Conservation Education, ESD, Farming, Healthy families, Home school activities, Income generation, kenya, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, PACE, TUSK

Vertical Conservation Agriculture at Ntalabany Primary School in Kenya.

Ntalabany primary school is located in the Leparua Community Conservancy in northern Kenya. It works with the Lewa Schools programme. The Conservation and Agriculture Club at Ntalabany wanted to practice Conservation Agriculture (see PACE Action Sheet 30), but met a number of constraints - the school compound is covered with sandy soil and rocks and there is a limited source of water. They had limited resources, and also most of the land around the school is open to grazing animals as [...]

By PACE|2021-12-17T14:48:10+00:00December 17th, 2021|Activities, Climate smart agriculture, Conservation agriculture, Conservation Education, ESD, Farming, Healthy families, Home school activities, Income generation, kenya, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, PACE, TUSK|0 Comments

Young PACE leaders make a virtual visit to Lewa Education Centre in Kenya
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Young PACE leaders make a virtual visit to Lewa Education Centre in Kenya

Africa, Conservation, Conservation Education, ESD, kenya, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, Ninety One, PACE, Teachers Africa, Teaching conservation, TUSK

Young PACE leaders make a virtual visit to Lewa Education Centre in Kenya

Thirty six young Conservation leaders and their coordinators made a virtual visit to the Education Centre at Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya last Thursday. The youngsters are all members of school Wildlife or Environment Clubs that participated in our series of Conservation talks and virtual visits in the school holiday, organised with Ninety One. We are thrilled that so many children were able to overcome connectivity and equipment constraints to learn from such experienced conservation educators - and hugely grateful to [...]

By PACE|2021-12-01T14:07:40+00:00December 1st, 2021|Africa, Conservation, Conservation Education, ESD, kenya, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, Ninety One, PACE, Teachers Africa, Teaching conservation, TUSK|0 Comments

Read about how PACE resources have been used in different countries.