Endangered Species – PACE – Pan African Conservation Education

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

Thanks to DHL – delivering conservation education materials to teachers on the ground.
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Thanks to DHL – delivering conservation education materials to teachers on the ground.

Cameroon, Climate Change, Conservation, Education, Endangered Species, Farming, Sustainability

Thanks to DHL – delivering conservation education materials to teachers on the ground.

Huge thanks to DHL for their ongoing support getting PACE educational materials to hardworking teachers and conservation projects across Africa - nearly 90kg of PACE packs were delivered to partners in Cameroon, Tanzania, Kenya and Zimbabwe in the last week. Laure Diffomene, one of the recipients in Cameroon works with UNAFAS and the EEC, she is a geography teacher in the western highlands of Cameroon. Laure is based in Nkongsamba, at the foot of the volcanic Mount Manengouba. Rainforest on the [...]

By PACE|2020-02-21T23:07:45+00:00August 19th, 2019|Cameroon, Climate Change, Conservation, Education, Endangered Species, Farming, Sustainability|0 Comments

Goliath frog, Conraua goliath
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Goliath frog, Conraua goliath

Activities, Conservation, Education, Endangered Species

Goliath frog, Conraua goliath

PACE students at the Collège Evangelique de Nkongsamba - in the shadow of the Manengouba Mountains in Cameroon learned about Wildlife and Living alongside Wildlife last week. Led by geography teacher Laure Diffomene students watched two PACE films about Living with Wildlife, they read sections of the PACE book, L’Afrique Notre Habitat and then discussed what they'd learned and how it linked to what they knew before. They talked about some of the local wildlife that is considered particularly important in [...]

By PACE Comms|2019-06-21T17:05:50+01:00May 3rd, 2018|Activities, Conservation, Education, Endangered Species|0 Comments