ZOO/WILD's
2013 Activities . . .
The
Sahyadri Freshwater
Biodiversity Conservation
Education Training Workshop,
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
25-27 February 2013
The
Sahyadri Timeline by Goa
participant
A
three-day trainers training on
Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation
Education was conducted by WILD/ZOO at
Coimbatore inviting selected educators
from five states
(Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Goa and
Maharashtra) of the Western Ghats. This
CEPF sponsored project is the follow up
of the Western Ghats Freshwater
Biodiversity Assessment report published
by ZOO/IUCN Biodiversity Unit in 2011.
The objective of this three-day training
is to take the assessment results of the
report to a wide range of stakeholders
such as local people, students,
community and also journalists living in
peninsular India. The aim of the
training is to empower educators to
teach about freshwater biodiversity and
its conservation that can be practiced
with their local audience in the Western
Ghats area and to demonstrate innovative
teaching and learning techniques
designed to change human behaviour for
the better. As part of this project a
teaching manual has been developed along
with a variety of education materials
that was used throughout the training.
About 17 educators took part in this
training and utilizing the resource
materials used during the training, they
will be reaching out to a wider audience
involving journalists. This training is
a collaborative effort of Conservation
Breeding Specialist Group, Conservation
Research Group, Kerala, Freshwater Fish
SG – South Asia region, South Asian
Invertebrate Specialist Group and ZOO’s
Educator Network.
To
view article published in ZOO'S
PRINT Magazine
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