Zoo Outreach Organization &
Wildlife Information Liaison Development

 

 ZOO/WILD's 2015 Activities . . .

Integrating teaching and folklore theatre to promote HECx in Tamil Nadu, India

HECx folklore

IEF LogoPrincipal Investigator:
R. Marimuthu, Senior Education Officer
Grantee: International Elephant Foundation

This proposed project is to reach school teachers, school children and community who lives in or nearby Northern Western Ghats (both Sathyamangalam and Erode forest divisions) in Erode District of human elephant conflict and teach them about safety education on human elephant coexistence through teachers training, school awareness programme for children and street play (Theru Koothu is a folk theatre one of the oldest and most powerful art form) for the communities in order to save their lives and live harmoniously with elephants.