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PACE Action sheets now available in Portuguese

Selected PACE action sheets are now available in Portuguese. Action sheets share simple solutions that people have used to solve their everyday, environmental problems.   Living with wildlife titles in Portuguese include: Monitoring human wildlife conflict, Reducing crop raiding by elephants, Protecting against primates, Protecting livestock against predators, a Chili growing guide, and Elephant dung paper.  Energy topics include: Reducing kitchen smoke, Fuel savers, Improved stoves, Smoke hoods, Solar cooking, Make your own solar cooker, Make a fire-less hay-box cooker, and Planting [...]

By |2023-08-22T12:08:45+01:00August 22nd, 2023|Africa, african conservation education, Community outreach, Competency Based teaching, Conservation Education, Education, Energy, Energy & Climate Change, PACE, Portuguese, Teaching conservation, TUSK, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Getting kids onto computers!

  In May last year we wrote about the Digital Literacy Programme (DLP) at Lewa Wildlife conservancy in Kenya.  As a PACE hub the DLP created a PACE channel (containing all the PACE content) on the Kolibri software they use, and made this available to schools, 23 in total, that they support in the area around Lewa conservancy.  DLP  helped the schools acquire tablets and smart boards, created school intranets, digitised curriculum material and additional content like PACE and loaded it [...]

By |2023-08-11T18:14:48+01:00August 12th, 2023|Africa, african conservation education, Competency Based teaching, Conservation, Conservation Education, Digital Literacy, Education, ESD, kenya, Lamu Marine Conservation Trust, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, PACE, Quality Education, TUSK, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Newly qualified Vulture experts at Makuleke!

  In April we produced a series of four 'webinars' with VulPro.  The webinar recordings were used as the first introductory sessions for a club, the VulPro Vulture Club, that has been meeting in Makuleke cultural centre, on alternate Saturdays since.   Makuleke is at the northern end of Kruger National Park in South Africa. The club members are youngsters from nearby schools, and it's been organised by the Makuleke Park manager and led by his Conservation educators, Rhulani and Mika. [...]

By |2023-08-24T12:14:20+01:00August 11th, 2023|Africa, Conservation, Conservation Education, Education, ESD, Makuleke, PACE, South Africa, Southern Africa Wildlife College, Teaching conservation, TUSK, VulPro, Vultures|0 Comments

A poem written by one of our students !

  Wildlife Action Group Malawi is a non-profit organization that works with local communities and the Malawian Government to protect wild areas and the wildlife that live there. They are directly responsible for two forest reserves, Thuma and Dedza Salima Escarpment in central Malawi. The reserves total over 520 km2 , and are key water catchments and rich in biodiversity.  The WAG education team visit primary and secondary schools around the reserves on a regular monthly basis: they are improving school [...]

By |2023-08-07T14:00:30+01:00August 7th, 2023|Africa, african conservation education, Conservation Education, Education, Environment, malawi, PACE, Quality Education, Teaching conservation, TUSK, Wildlife Action Group|0 Comments

A PACE visit to Lewa education centre in Kenya.

    Educators from Lamu on Kenya's coast discussing their visit with Ephantus Mugo, Conservation Education Coordinator at Lewa.   The Education department at Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya continued as a PACE hub this year, and as such, hosted our partners from Kenya’s coast recently. Led by the LamCot programme manager, educators from nine primary and secondary schools traveled up country to get a taste of the innovative ways that schools around Lewa are using Conservation education to [...]

By |2023-06-28T22:37:15+01:00June 28th, 2023|Africa, african conservation education, CBC, Conservation Education, Lamu Marine Conservation Trust, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, PACE, Teaching conservation, TUSK|0 Comments

Learning outside the classroom – make a simple donation, with big impact.

  We were so pleased to get this donation of gardening equipment to the students at Lokusero primary school in Kenya. Huge thanks to the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy's  education team for making the delivery. The learners have been trying to cultivate a garden but in recent dry years they’ve been up against elephants that learned how to access their rainwater collection tanks.  After suffering considerable destruction ( broken gutters, damaged tanks, trampled ground) the school recently received fencing to keep the [...]

By |2023-06-19T09:52:24+01:00June 15th, 2023|Activities, Africa, african conservation education, CBC, Competency Based teaching, Conservation, Conservation agriculture, Conservation Education, Education, ESD, kenya, Learning outside the classroom, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, PACE, Quality Education, School, Soil, Teachers Africa, Teaching conservation, Uncategorized|0 Comments

School kids debating – for conservation or not for conservation?

Living with Wildlife, the advantages and disadvantages   The RISE department at Southern Africa Wildlife College has been organising school debating competitions.  These youngsters (above) attend schools in the Manyeleti Circuit, Mpumalanga Province in South Africa, close to Kruger National Park and the College. They are from communities that were displaced by the park.  The students from five primary and four high schools each set up teams, prepared their case and traveled to the College for their competition.  On day one, [...]

By |2023-06-10T13:28:00+01:00June 10th, 2023|Africa, african conservation education, Conservation Education, ESD, Makuleke, PACE, South Africa, Southern Africa Wildlife College, Teaching conservation, TUSK|0 Comments

Conservation education, Makuleke, South Africa

Last month, along with the RISE unit at Southern Africa Wildlife College and VulPro, we organised a series of four webinars to raise Vulture awareness in and around Kruger National Park in South Africa. Vulture numbers in Kruger are low, and poisoning events like one last year that killed 120 birds are having catastrophic impact.  The Makuleke Park Manager, Aubrey Maluleke, works alongside SANParks running a community owned, community run area within Kruger National Park. He included his educators in the [...]

By |2023-06-12T12:52:57+01:00June 2nd, 2023|Africa, african conservation education, Conservation Education, Education, Makuleke, PACE, South Africa, Southern Africa Wildlife College, Teachers Africa, Teaching conservation, TUSK, VulPro, Vultures|0 Comments

KIRUSSO, enabling youngsters in Tanzania.

It’s always a joy to receive news of excited young conservationists, learning and doing new things. Today’s inspiring news came from Paul KIMWAGA, who coordinates a commuity based organisation called KIRUSSO, in the Kigoma Region of western Tanzania. PACE has provided educational materials to KIRUSSO,  for their work with school teachers and Eco-clubs.   “Today I am happy to come back to you again to give you a brief report on the progress of the distribution, reading and use of the [...]

By |2023-05-05T08:57:49+01:00May 5th, 2023|Activities, Africa, african conservation education, Competency Based teaching, Conservation Education, Education, Environment, PACE, Tanzania, Teachers Africa, Teaching conservation, TUSK|0 Comments

Chiswene Eco-buddies

  In December we sent PACE resources to Di Drummond, who supports the local school, Chiswene Primary, near her home in Zimbabwe’s low veld. It was only last month that Di’s team were able to access the school.  They had to wait until the water level in a large river dropped low enough to permit crossing. "Two of our interns, and game scouts took the walk across to the school, and held the first club meeting with Grade 5 & 6 [...]

By |2023-04-05T12:46:58+01:00April 6th, 2023|Africa, african conservation education, Community, Conservation, Conservation Education, Education, ESD, PACE, Teaching conservation, TUSK, Zimbabwe|0 Comments

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