Zoo Outreach
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ZOO/WILD's
2017 Activities . . .
Human Elephant Coexistence: Teaching trainers R. Marimuthu
Human Elephant Coexistence: Teaching trainers
The International Elephant Foundation IEF funded a project for 2017 on “Fostering Human Elephant Coexistence (HECx) awareness in Erode, Tamil Nadu, India”.The main objective of the project is to conduct a teacher training workshop on human elephant coexistence for 25 teachers and 25 mass awareness programmes for students and through this reaching out 2500 students who live in human elephant conflict areas.
As part of the project the teacher training was held on 16-17 November 2017 at Bharathi Vidhyalaya Matriculation Higher Secondary School. Twenty-five teachers from Sathyamangalam, Bargur, Anthiyur and Thalavadi areas participated. Assistant Education Officer, Andhiyur, inaugurated this and coordinated by Mrs. T. Geetha, District Eco-Club Coordinator from o/o Chief Education Officer, Erode and Mr. L. Vijeyendran, District National Green Corps Coordinator, Gobi. R. Marimuthu and B. A. Daniel of Zoo Outreach Organization were the trainers.
