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PACE Pangolin resource
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PACE Pangolin resource

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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

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

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

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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 PACE|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

Simple is good, don’t forget the basics in Conservation education!
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Simple is good, don’t forget the basics in Conservation education!

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Simple is good, don’t forget the basics in Conservation education!

ICT and the international connectivity it offers, have become increasingly important in today's digital and global world. Technology, and providing the knowledge, skills, equipment and infrastructure to use it are essential if we are to empower rural communities and especially the young people living close to wildlife. However, it's also important that we don't lose sight of hands-on, outdoor, practical activities, that help children build the even wider range of skills and competencies they need to address their current and [...]

By PACE|2024-02-22T15:37:48+00:00February 22nd, 2024|african conservation education, Climate smart agriculture, Conservation agriculture, Conservation Education, ESD, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, PACE, Quality Education, Teaching conservation, TUSK|0 Comments

Conservation and sustainability education steaming ahead in Zimbabwe
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Conservation and sustainability education steaming ahead in Zimbabwe

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Conservation and sustainability education steaming ahead in Zimbabwe

The new school year (it starts in January) is well under way in Zimbabwe, as is the 2024 Eco Club run by the Ecological Custodians Foundation at Chiswene primary in the south western low veld! Di Drummond a founder of EGF wrote that "We have UZ (University of Zimbabwe) students Delma & Eugene taking the classes this year. The new batch of children are very keen, and its exciting to see how this work continues to go onwards and [...]

By PACE|2024-02-16T19:40:07+00:00February 16th, 2024|Africa, Conservation Education, Education, Next Generation of conservation heroes, PACE, Quality Education, Teachers Africa, Teaching conservation, TUSK, Zimbabwe|0 Comments

Getting kids onto computers!
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Getting kids onto computers!

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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 PACE|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

Children not only learning, but making a difference, a big difference!
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Children not only learning, but making a difference, a big difference!

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Children not only learning, but making a difference, a big difference!

This is Ntalabany primary school in northern Kenya. It was brought to our attention 18 months ago when Lewa educators created a new PACE action sheet to share the children's vertical gardening innovations and success. We're told that this year they are having to rethink the concept of school clubs like the Environment Club at Ntalabany, because they have moved from the club being 20 or 30 kids interested in environment to the whole school being involved. Rather than [...]

By PACE|2023-08-11T15:17:15+01:00August 11th, 2023|african conservation education, Climate smart agriculture, Competency Based teaching, Conservation, Conservation Education, Environment, ESD, kenya, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, PACE, Quality Education, TUSK, Uncategorized|0 Comments

A poem written by one of our students !
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A poem written by one of our students !

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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 PACE|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

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 PACE|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

PACE at Makuleke, South Africa
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PACE at Makuleke, South Africa

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PACE at Makuleke, South Africa

The PACE coordinator was in Makuleke, Limpopo Province, in South Africa this month. We were invited by the local Makuleke Park Manager, as part of our collaboration with the Southern Africa Wildlife College. The Makuleke people were one of the first communities to win back land that they were forced off of to create Kruger National Park. They now have full ownership, and co-manage their 22,000 ha of land within the KNP, alongside SAN Parks, the National Park authority. The Makuleke [...]

By PACE|2022-12-24T01:02:57+00:00December 24th, 2022|Africa, Community, Conservation, Conservation Education, ESD, PACE, Quality Education, South Africa, Southern Africa Wildlife College, Subsistence farming, Teaching conservation, Tree planting, Trees, TUSK, wood energy|0 Comments