Soil – PACE – Pan African Conservation Education

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

Climate Smart Agriculture

Climate Smart agriculture, also called Conservation farming is a no till approach. No plough is used to till the soil. The lack of tilling maintains soil particle size meaning that more water can infiltrate deeper. This, with the extra organic matter added to the soil makes farms more resistant to drought, and also to erosion. Soils contain carbon dioxide and extensive ploughing or hand-tilling releases all this carbon dioxide into the atmosphere increasing greenhouse gas emissions. In ‘Conservation Farming’ permanent [...]

By PACE|2021-10-28T00:13:27+01:00October 28th, 2021|Africa, Climate Change, Climate smart agriculture, Conservation, Conservation agriculture, Conservation Education materials, Energy & Climate Change, Environment, ESD, Kariba REDD+ Project, PACE, Soil, Sustainability, Teaching conservation, TUSK, Zimbabwe|0 Comments

Mokolodi Nature Reserve Education Centre working with local schools and communities
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Mokolodi Nature Reserve Education Centre working with local schools and communities

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Mokolodi Nature Reserve Education Centre working with local schools and communities

Mokolodi Nature Reserve Education Centre were excited to receive a consignment of new PACE educational material a few months ago. The new PACE sets were introduced and distributed to Kgabosetso Primary School, one of ten schools selected by the Mokolodi Education Centre for the schools Environmental Clubs Project. The teachers showed great interest and enthusiasm in receiving the materials and expressed that they would enjoy using them in their classroom teaching. The School's Environmental Club has already utilised some ideas from [...]

By PACE Comms|2019-06-21T16:41:05+01:00June 25th, 2018|Education, School, Soil|0 Comments