Teaching conservation – Page 2 – PACE – Pan African Conservation Education

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

“Thank you for making my work easier and impactful”

The Uganda Wildlife Education Centre provide visits, workshops and outreach for schools and communities in the Entebbe area, and from further afield. We are thrilled that access to PACE resources has enabled them to increase their impact. Richard Otiti, Conservation Educator at UWEC, has been organising seminars to help communities live peacefully alongside their wildlife neighbours. "Lugasa School for example neighbours Mabira Forest Reserve. The communities where the school is located are currently struggling with Vervet monkeys. The monkeys destroy crops. [...]

By PACE|2022-11-07T14:38:29+00:00November 7th, 2022|Africa, Competency Based teaching, Conservation, Conservation Education, Conservation Education materials, Environment, ESD, PACE, Teaching conservation, TUSK, Uganda, Uganda Wildlife Education Centre, UgandaWildlifeEducationCentre, Uncategorized, UWEC, Wildlife|0 Comments

Caleb’s Frog champions.
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Caleb’s Frog champions.

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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

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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

Young conservationists across Africa learn about Turtle conservation
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Young conservationists across Africa learn about Turtle conservation

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Young conservationists across Africa learn about Turtle conservation

Young people from across Africa came together to launch the 2022 PACE webinars today. Atwaa and Teresa from Lamcot on Lamu island in Kenya gave a fascinating presentation on Sea turtle conservation, followed by an hour long Q & A session. Nearly 100 participants joined us, using a wide range of equipment and settings: school and university students, wildlife clubs, youth groups, teachers and conservation educators, logging in from Victoria Falls, Hwange and Vumba National Parks in Zimbabwe, from South Africa, [...]

By PACE|2022-08-04T12:26:46+01:00July 26th, 2022|Conservation Education, ESD, Lamcot, PACE, Teaching conservation, Turtle conservation, TUSK, Uncategorized|0 Comments

Young PACE leaders make a virtual visit to Lewa Education Centre in Kenya
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Young PACE leaders make a virtual visit to Lewa Education Centre in Kenya

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Young PACE leaders make a virtual visit to Lewa Education Centre in Kenya

Thirty six young Conservation leaders and their coordinators made a virtual visit to the Education Centre at Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya last Thursday. The youngsters are all members of school Wildlife or Environment Clubs that participated in our series of Conservation talks and virtual visits in the school holiday, organised with Ninety One. We are thrilled that so many children were able to overcome connectivity and equipment constraints to learn from such experienced conservation educators - and hugely grateful to [...]

By PACE|2021-12-01T14:07:40+00:00December 1st, 2021|Africa, Conservation, Conservation Education, ESD, kenya, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, Ninety One, PACE, Teachers Africa, Teaching conservation, TUSK|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

PACE – helping people adapt to climate change
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PACE – helping people adapt to climate change

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PACE – helping people adapt to climate change

Africa bears little blame for the world's current climate crisis, yet is one of the continents most effected by and most vulnerable to climate change and variability. Isn't it ironic that after a connecting with kids in the UK and USA over the summer, 16 year old Ruth Mbabazi in rural Uganda (Gasiza parish) said she'd learned "that the whole world is fighting against climate change, I thought we were the only ones doing it" It is because people across Africa [...]

By PACE|2021-10-25T17:33:38+01:00October 25th, 2021|Africa, Climate Change, Community, Conservation, Conservation Education, Energy & Climate Change, Environment, ESD, Kariba REDD+ Project, PACE, Teachers Africa, Teaching conservation, TUSK|0 Comments

PACE, Climate change, Wildlife and Communities in Africa –
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PACE, Climate change, Wildlife and Communities in Africa –

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PACE, Climate change, Wildlife and Communities in Africa –

Climate change is already impacting on the daily lives of people in rural and urban Africa and it is a massive issue for conservation. Climate Change is affecting the livelihoods and well being of people, is having an impact on ecosystems and on wildlife - impacts which are inextricably linked, and exacerbate each other. It has not gone unnoticed at PACE that the number of requests from wildlife rangers for ideas and materials to resolve conflict between local communities [...]

By PACE|2021-10-22T16:02:00+01:00October 22nd, 2021|Africa, Climate Change, Conservation, Conservation Education, ESD, Kariba REDD+ Project, PACE, Sahel, Teaching conservation, TUSK|0 Comments

PACE supporting educators as schools reopen
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PACE supporting educators as schools reopen

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PACE supporting educators as schools reopen

Huge thanks again to DHL, our fantastic logistics partner, for super efficient support getting PACE materials to partners in the field. DHL are this minute working on getting these new PACE packs to educators in Sierra Leone, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya. Without them we couldn't support the invaluable work of organisations and individuals as they help communities improve their standard of living in ways that support wildlife and nature. "Myself and the team are really [...]

By PACE|2021-10-14T13:10:26+01:00October 14th, 2021|Africa, Conservation Education, DHL, ESD, PACE, Teachers Africa, Teaching conservation, TUSK|0 Comments