Endangered Species

How using PACE strengthened my vulture awareness programme at Blouberg schools
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How using PACE strengthened my vulture awareness programme at Blouberg schools

african conservation education, Conservation Education, Endangered Species, PACE, South Africa, TUSK, VulPro, Vultures

How using PACE strengthened my vulture awareness programme at Blouberg schools

Phillipine Makhubela started as an intern with VulPro in South Africa early in 2025. She is based in Blouberg Nature Reserve, in the north of the country, a protected area and site of key vulture breeding colonies that VulPro is fighting, against the clock, to protect. We were able to cover some of the costs of Phillipine's internship this year, provide some training, and materials for her to use in schools and communities. These included the PACE vulture booklet, that [...]

By PACE|2025-11-27T16:58:24+00:00November 26th, 2025|african conservation education, Conservation Education, Endangered Species, PACE, South Africa, TUSK, VulPro, Vultures|0 Comments

PACE Pangolin resource
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PACE Pangolin resource

Africa, Conservation Education, Education, Endangered Species, ESD, PACE, Pangolin, Quality Education, Teachers Africa, Teaching conservation, TUSK, Wildlife

PACE Pangolin resource

We are so excited to have completed our first Pangolin resource. It's full of wonderful photos and simple text, 40 pages that show and explain what pangolins are, why they are important, their taxonomy, the species, where they live, their habits, feeding, adaptations, reproduction, the threats they face and work being done to protect them. Pangolin are shy creatures, usually nocturnal so not often seen, we hope this book will bring them alive, to people who live alongside and are in [...]

By PACE|2024-12-19T22:10:53+00:00December 19th, 2024|Africa, Conservation Education, Education, Endangered Species, ESD, PACE, Pangolin, Quality Education, Teachers Africa, Teaching conservation, TUSK, Wildlife|0 Comments

PACE Mountain gorilla resource
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PACE Mountain gorilla resource

african conservation education, Conservation Education, CTPH Conservation Through Public Health, Endangered Species, Keystone species, Mountain gorillas, PACE, TUSK, Uganda

PACE Mountain gorilla resource

Our latest resource was requested by teachers and CTPH - Conservation Through Public Health - community workers in Bwindi, Uganda. They saw our other Living with Wildlife materials and asked if we'd produce a mountain gorilla booklet, for their schools and community work. They said that most of the remote rural schools still have limited teaching and learning materials, so for the children to have resources on a species that is so important in their landscape and communities is invaluable. [...]

By PACE|2024-11-07T13:57:42+00:00November 7th, 2024|african conservation education, Conservation Education, CTPH Conservation Through Public Health, Endangered Species, Keystone species, Mountain gorillas, PACE, TUSK, Uganda|0 Comments

Living with Wildlife – a new PACE resource, on Painted dogs.

Painted dogs are very social, caring, family focused creatures that present no danger to people. Sadly, they are much misunderstood, and often, this is especially so in areas where they live. As a result Painted dogs suffer unnecessarily at the hands of human beings. We are determined to help change this trend. The general lack of knowledge about Painted dogs was brought home last year, when during a PACE webinar on the species, participants questions and comments revealed how little [...]

By PACE|2023-03-07T11:51:04+00:00February 8th, 2023|Africa, Conservation, Conservation Education, Endangered Species, ESD, Jo Taylor, Karingani, Mozambique, PACE, Painted Dogs, Portuguese, Teaching conservation, TUSK, Wild Dog Advisory Group|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

Careers in Conservation – Vet
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Careers in Conservation – Vet

Careers in Conservation, Conservation Education, Corona virus, Education, Endangered Species, Health, PACE, Women in Conservation

Careers in Conservation – Vet

As some countries begin to ease the lockdown restrictions people are starting to plan and look to the future again. This has inspired us to continue the PACE Careers in Conservation series that illustrates the great range of jobs and many kinds of people that work in conservation and related employment. The corona virus crisis has created enormous challenges, but we are confident about the future, that Conservation will continue to be a growing and exciting sector all across Africa. [...]

By PACE|2020-06-06T18:12:08+01:00June 6th, 2020|Careers in Conservation, Conservation Education, Corona virus, Education, Endangered Species, Health, PACE, Women in Conservation|0 Comments

PACE Vocab – keystone “KEYSTONE SPECIES”
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PACE Vocab – keystone “KEYSTONE SPECIES”

Africa, Conservation, Conservation Education, Endangered Species, Keystone species, Preventing habitat loss, Wildlife

PACE Vocab – keystone “KEYSTONE SPECIES”

A key stone is the central supporting stone at the top of an arch, it holds all the others in place. If a keystone is removed the arch collapses. A keystone species has the same role. Keystone species maintain the balance in their ecosystem, keep it functioning and healthy. If a keystone species is removed or disappears then food webs, habitats, ecosystems and the plants and animals living there are all disrupted. Because they are so important, keystone species are [...]

By PACE|2020-05-12T19:12:53+01:00May 12th, 2020|Africa, Conservation, Conservation Education, Endangered Species, Keystone species, Preventing habitat loss, Wildlife|0 Comments

PACE Lockdown ‘VOCAB’
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PACE Lockdown ‘VOCAB’

Africa, Conservation, Conservation Education, Corona virus, Endangered Species, Environment, ZOONOSES, ZOONOTIC DISEASE

PACE Lockdown ‘VOCAB’

The 'Vocab' word for this week is " Z O O N O S E S " The gentle animal in the picture is not a zoonose. But today is the 50th international Earth day, a day to think about the wildlife, ecosystems and all living inhabitants of our planet - their combined health, security and long term well being. We are also in the middle of a global pandemic. The two make this word especially topical, and the picture very [...]

By PACE|2020-04-22T18:01:43+01:00April 22nd, 2020|Africa, Conservation, Conservation Education, Corona virus, Endangered Species, Environment, ZOONOSES, ZOONOTIC DISEASE|0 Comments

Careers in Conservation – role models
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Careers in Conservation – role models

Careers in Conservation, Conservation, Endangered Species, South Africa, Uncategorized

Careers in Conservation – role models

We'd like to congratulate Cathy Dreyer on her recent appointment as Conservation Manager at Addo Elephant National Park in South Africa's Eastern Cape. Cathy is an inspirational conservationist, in 2016 she won the prestigious TUSK Award for Conservation in Africa and she features in our new PACE Careers in Conservation Module. When Cathy was young she used to go walking near her home in Cape Town and on Table Mountain. She said that she always knew she wanted to do something [...]

By PACE|2020-02-21T22:52:40+00:00November 7th, 2019|Careers in Conservation, Conservation, Endangered Species, South Africa, Uncategorized|0 Comments