PACE News

Read about how PACE resources have been used in different countries.

Evaluation shows value of PACE Action Sheets for practical learning and problem solving

  Our collection of nearly 90 Action sheets are central to the PACE Conservation education materials. Action sheets provide information on how to implement the wide ranging solutions to environmental problems that are covered in the PACE films, reader and other resources: from Planting trees, to Cultivating mushrooms, Growing chillies to deter elephants and much more. An evaluation of the PACE programme was just completed.  It looked at feedback from sixty conservation educators in 13 African countries. On a scale of [...]

By |2025-09-24T10:57:25+01:00September 17th, 2025|Africa, african conservation education, Conservation Education, Education, ESD, Learning outside the classroom, PACE, TUSK|0 Comments

Grey crowned cranes resource

  Grey crowned cranes are tall, majestic birds. They are a symbol of wealth and longevity in many countries and cultures.  Unfortunately, over recent decades this actually caused them to become endangered, and especially so in Rwanda.  The pet trade, egg collection, on top of habitat loss, poaching for food and poisoning, was devastating. However, in 2014 Rwanda Wildlife Conservation Association - decided to address the problems. They started a campaign to protect both the cranes and their habitats. RWCA set [...]

By |2025-08-18T18:59:02+01:00August 15th, 2025|Africa, african conservation education, Community, Conservation Education, grey crowned cranes, Keystone species, PACE, RWCA, RWCA Rwanda Wildlife Conservation Association, TUSK|0 Comments

Conservation education changing lives – Banboye’s journey.

  A life of environmental activism started one evening in 2012, when a colleague handed Dzelagha Banboye Frederick a book called Africa Our Home and asked him to prepare a presentation on it the next day.  “He said, ‘You’re a biology teacher, what can you do with this?’,” Dr. Banboye remembers. “I didn’t know it then, but that question changed the course of my life.”   The next day, he stood in a seminar presenting an impromptu lesson based on what he’d [...]

By |2025-08-03T18:24:28+01:00July 18th, 2025|Africa, Cameroon, Competency Based teaching, Conservation agriculture, Conservation Education, ISTP, PACE, TUSK|0 Comments

Testing PACE tablets

  For some time we've been experimenting with the best way to make PACE materials available digitally, in areas where internet and power supplies are unreliable.  This month we visited PDC (Painted Dog Conservation) partner schools in the Kariba and Mana Pools areas of northern Zimbabwe.  The schools are in areas where dogs have been sighted, so tend to be remote -  Nyamakate, Chitindiva, Makanda, Gachegache, Chapoto and Masoka.   We took along a set of Children's tablets, and the school conservation [...]

By |2025-06-21T13:26:06+01:00June 21st, 2025|african conservation education, Competency Based teaching, Conservation Education, Digital Literacy, ESD, PACE, Painted Dog Conservation, Teaching conservation, TUSK, Zimbabwe|0 Comments

Wildlife in our neighbourhoods

  Wildlife doesn't only live in rural areas. Many species make their homes in and around our towns and cities - even on, in and under our own houses.  Monkeys, bats and owls, are just a few examples. Unfortunately many of these species are misunderstood and suffer at human hands as a result. Creatures that come out at dusk, dawn and at night particularly so. Lilongwe Wildlife Trust (LWT) runs a wildlife rescue facility and wildlife sanctuary, located in a protected [...]

By |2025-05-23T22:55:44+01:00May 23rd, 2025|Africa, african conservation education, Conservation Education, Lilongwe Wildlife Trust, malawi, PACE, TUSK|0 Comments

Activity book for RWCA Conservation clubs in Rwanda

  We are super excited to be completing a new Activity book with Rwanda Wildlife Conservation Association. It's designed specifically for RWCA's wonderful Kids Conservation Clubs.  The clubs have the Africa our Home book and PACE species booklets on mountain gorillas, pangolin, vultures and okapi - and they will soon have new resources that we are producing together, on grey crowned cranes, wetlands and bats. RWCA wanted a workbook that each child can call their own, to take home, write in, [...]

By |2025-09-16T11:51:43+01:00May 7th, 2025|Africa, Competency Based teaching, Conservation Education, ESD, PACE, RWCA, TUSK|0 Comments

PACE training – at RWCA’s Umusambi Village in Kigali

UMUSAMBI means Grey crowned crane in Kiyarwanda.  Umusambi village is a wildlife sanctuary, set up on reclaimed urban wetlands by the Rwanda Wildlife Conservation Association. It was Kigali's first such site, and is now an amazing visitor attraction, an education and research centre and above all provides a safe and permanent home to injured grey crowned cranes, wild ones that have chosen to come and live there and a host of other wildlife.   It is where we met for a PACE [...]

By |2025-04-02T16:13:54+01:00April 2nd, 2025|african conservation education, Competency Based teaching, Conservation Education, ESD, PACE, Rwanda, RWCA Rwanda Wildlife Conservation Association, TUSK|0 Comments

Conservation educators Learning Circle

Last week the PACE Conservation Educators Learning Circle held its latest on-line meeting. Palloma Pachiti, one of our team in Zimbabwe, prepared a session for educators in South Africa, very much based on ideas and techniques that had particularly resonated with kids club leaders at a training with RWCA in Kigali recently. It was great to be sharing learning and successes, that's what PACE is all about after all - a Pan African Conservation Education ! The RWCA - Rwanda Wildlife [...]

By |2025-04-03T09:55:27+01:00April 1st, 2025|Africa, african conservation education, Competency Based teaching, Conservation, Conservation Education materials, DHL, Education, ESD, PACE, Rwanda, RWCA, RWCA Rwanda Wildlife Conservation Association, Teachers Africa, Teaching conservation, TUSK, VulPro|0 Comments

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 |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

  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 |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

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