Post on 28-Mar-2015
AwelyWildlife and People
Linking Education,
Conservationand
Development
EZE ConferenceCologne Zoo
February 2009
PovertyHunger
No Education
SurvivePoor education
Over-consumption
High mortality ratePoor medical care
Reasonnable medical care
Poor technology
Easy access to information
Long lifeHigh technology
Many types of assistance
Diseases and illnesses
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Food insecurity
Easy access to education
Natural disastersInadequate acces to water
POVERTY
Today, around the world, some 26,500 children will dieThat is equivalent to: 1 child dying every 3 seconds 18 children dying every minute A 2004 Asian Tsunami occurring every week Almost 10 million children dying every year
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POVERTY
Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names.
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POVERTY
Every 30 seconds an African child dies of malaria—more than one million child deaths a year.
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POVERTY
More than 800 million people go to bed hungry every day...300 million are children.
Education
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The educational aims of zoos and aquariums should include the following:
• to excite, enthuse and interest people about the natural world; • to encourage understanding of conservation issues and visitors’ individual roles in them; • to develop public support and action to address conservation concerns at a variety of levels; • to provide a range of experiences, materials and resources for the diversity of visitors, to enable them to make informed choices in their daily lives which benefit the environment and wildlife; • to develop a sense of place as humans in the natural world and an understanding of the relevance of conservation to everyday life.
Conservation Education
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Education is a critical part of building support and understanding of field conservation projects among local communities in range countries. Indeed, in situ projects are doomed to failure in the long term if the local people are not involved and if the underlying causes of habitat loss and the threats to species are not addressed.
Source of proteinHunting
Nuisance
Conservation refugeesDestruction
Fascination
PestIncome
Travel
Traditional medecine
DreamsAmazing
ExotismCute
Injuries
Death
Competition
Strong
DangerSource of income
BeautifulMagestic
Funny
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Over-consumption
Good medical careEasy access to information
Long life
High technology
Many types of assistance
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Easy access to education
Over-consumption
Good medical careAccess to training
Good education
Many types of assistanceEasy access to information
Access to meetings and networks
Poor educationPoor technology
Poor medical care
Rare access to meetings
Poor or no access to the internet
No training
High motivation
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Regular and proper salaries
Low salaries
High motivation
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conservation and development
Make the difference between nice to do and good projects
Involve local communities in the conservation process
Regularly evaluate our work
Work in collaboration and share our results, good or bad
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education worldwide
Provide assistance to educators in sudstandard zoos
Provide assistance to educators in the wild
Regularly evaluate our work
Work in collaboration and share our results, good or bad
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conservationEducation and development
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