Conservation

Conservation educators Learning Circle

Last week the PACE Conservation Educators Learning Circle held its latest on-line meeting. Palloma Pachiti, one of our team in Zimbabwe, prepared a session for educators in South Africa, very much based on ideas and techniques that had particularly resonated with kids club leaders at a training with RWCA in Kigali recently. It was great to be sharing learning and successes, that's what PACE is all about after all - a Pan African Conservation Education ! The RWCA - Rwanda Wildlife [...]

By |2025-04-03T09:55:27+01:00April 1st, 2025|Africa, african conservation education, Competency Based teaching, Conservation, Conservation Education materials, DHL, Education, ESD, PACE, Rwanda, RWCA, RWCA Rwanda Wildlife Conservation Association, Teachers Africa, Teaching conservation, TUSK, VulPro|0 Comments

Okapi resource

  Latest addition to the PACE Living with Wildlife module. We are super excited to have completed the English edition of our new Okapi resource.  It is a joint publication with the Okapi Conservation Project in the Democratic Republic of Congo.  They are based in north western DRC, in the Ituri Forest, one of few sites where the forest dwelling Okapi can be found.     Okapi are fascinating creatures, quiet, shy animals that live in the dense rain forest in [...]

By |2024-10-31T21:45:30+00:00October 31st, 2024|Africa, african conservation education, Conservation, Conservation Education, DRC, ESD, french educational resources, Okapi Conservation Project, PACE, TUSK|0 Comments

PDC expanding conservation ed in Zimbabwe schools

We are pleased to have helped Painted Dog Conservation, with planning, teaching and training materials and connections, as they take their education programme to Mana Pools area. PDC has a wonderful and long standing education programme. They work with communities and most notably with young people in their schools and through holiday camps - communities that live alongside Painted dogs. Except, some of the dogs moved, away from their established range, into a new area, less busy but where the [...]

By |2024-08-14T15:46:17+01:00August 14th, 2024|Africa, african conservation education, Community outreach, Conservation, Conservation Education, Conservation Education materials, Education, PACE, Painted Dog Conservation, Painted Dogs, Teachers Africa, Teaching conservation, TUSK, Zimbabwe|0 Comments

‘Concrete’ results from Lokusero primary’s School Garden.

Eighteen months ago the school grounds at Lokusero primary, in Kenya, were regularly visited by elephants.  Elephants drank from, and damaged, the water storage tanks and rendered attempts to garden or have a student farm pointless  - too much ended up eaten or trampled.  Everyone was thankful (though perhaps not the elephants ..) when Borana wildlife conservancy assisted by enclosing the school grounds with elephant fencing. It meant the environment club could embark on long wished for projects - to plant [...]

By |2024-07-17T14:08:58+01:00July 17th, 2024|Africa, african conservation education, Climate smart agriculture, Conservation, Conservation agriculture, Conservation Education materials, Education, kenya, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, PACE, Permaculture, Quality Education, Teaching conservation, TUSK, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Our PACE hub in South Africa – inspiring young people around Kruger National Park.

    Welverdiend is a community located on the boundary of the Greater Kruger National Park in South Africa, and a close neighbour to the Southern Africa Wildlife College, our PACE hub in the region.  Back in August 2022 we visited to meet with the college’s RISE team (Rural Initiatives for a Sustainable Environment) and local educators who were all interested in using PACE in their schools and community groups.   We're thrilled to see what has grown out of those early [...]

By |2024-05-28T15:38:14+01:00May 22nd, 2024|african conservation education, Competency Based teaching, Conservation, Conservation agriculture, Conservation Education, Income generation, PACE, Quality Education, South Africa, TUSK, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Mangrove conservation – new PACE resources

  Mangroves are a unique and extraordinary group of plants, that grow on sheltered coastline and estuaries, throughout the tropics, sub-tropics and warm temperate areas.  They create an important coastal ecosystem - mangrove forests. In Africa 33 countries border the ocean, and 26 of these have mangrove forest, but they are being lost, degraded or depleted at alarming rates. In some places this is caused by clearing for large scale agriculture and industrial activity and the 'development' and pollution that follows. [...]

By |2024-06-11T15:24:25+01:00April 30th, 2024|Africa Underwater, african conservation education, Conservation, Conservation Education, Lamu Marine Conservation Trust, mangroves, PACE, TUSK|0 Comments

New PACE workbook

The latest PACE resource, co-produced with VulPro and the Southern Africa Wildlife College, celebrates the work of young conservationists in clubs we partnered with last year.  We were thrilled and inspired by the artwork they shared with us: poems, stories, anecdotes, drawings and painting, sent by students and their teachers, some from VulCha and other school clubs, some from kids who'd made school excursions or just had a class on wildlife.  The creativity is inspiring, the insight, understanding and compassion is [...]

By |2024-02-20T18:48:23+00:00February 20th, 2024|Africa, african conservation education, Conservation, Conservation Education, Conservation Education materials, Education, ESD, PACE, Southern Africa Wildlife College, TUSK, VulPro|0 Comments

PACE in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe has vast areas of wild land, amazing ecosystems that are important habitat for African wildlife: lion, cheetah, leopard, painted dogs, elephant, buffalo, a plethora of herbivores, bird and aquatic life.     Some of these areas are protected, many are not.  In almost all, there is a need for conservation and sustainability education – to help people better understand the pressures they and the modern world put on the natural  environment, and how we can live well, more sustainably, and [...]

By |2024-02-16T12:40:54+00:00February 12th, 2024|Africa, african conservation education, Conservation, Conservation Education, Education, ESD, PACE, TUSK, Uncategorized, Zimbabwe|0 Comments

New edition of the Vulture resource

We did a lot of work on Vulture education over the last year, and are thrilled at how popular and successful it has been.  It started with VulPro in South Africa, helping to get their conservation message into schools and communities over a much wider area than they could reach alone.  Vulture populations across Africa are struggling, and it's largely due to lack of information, and misperceptions.  Popular culture worldwide tends to attribute rather negative traits to vultures, which in reality [...]

By |2024-02-05T11:28:49+00:00January 16th, 2024|Africa, african conservation education, Community outreach, Conservation, Conservation Education, Conservation Education materials, ESD, Nigeria, PACE, Teaching conservation, TUSK, VulPro, Vultures|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

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