Environmental education

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 12:40:17 -0300 (ADT)
From: "Donald J. Black" <dblack@chebucto.ns.ca>
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Caretakers of the Environment-Canada

Can you help?

Later this month, a unique group of Nova Scotians will be going to 
Costa Rica for two weeks of intensive learning about native 
participation in ecotourism. They will also attend an international 
conference on biodiversity, environment, and sustainable 
development.

What's unusual about the group is that it includes three high school 
students from different parts of the province, two First Nations 
fisheries/wildlife workers, and a government administrator with 
responsibility for a conference on sustainability that the Nova Scotia 
government will host in the fall in connection with the Francophone 
Summit.

What the group has in common is that they are all members of 
Caretakers of the Environment International.

As many of you know, Caretakers is an international voluntary 
network of people and organizations who work together to support 
high school environmentalists, both students and their mentors in the 
community. Our goal is to stimulate and improve the quality of 
environmental education globally.

In Nova Scotia, Caretakers-Canada works with high school 
environmental clubs to sustain the annual Student Provincial 
Environmental Conference (SPEC), sponsored and developed by 
students and teachers from a different Nova Scotia high school every 
year for the past ten years.

Then SPEC participants have an opportunity to attend the annual 
Caretakers international conference that brings students and teachers 
from around the world together, for mutual support (very important 
for high-school environmentalists) and to exchange information on 
their various projects and national policies.

This year, since the international conference is in Costa Rica, we've 
taken the opportunity to focus on how we can learn from the 
experience of the indigenous people of Costa Rica, when it comes to 
ecotourism development.

The delegation consists of three students, Evie MacLeod of Judique, 
Noel Doucette of Chapel Island and Natasha Moore of Halifax plus 
Eugene Denny, a field technician with the Eskasoni Fish and Wildlife 
Commission and Allister Marshall, a Fisheries Guardian, and member 
of the Council of the Chapel Island First Nation. Mark Bannerman of 
the Nova Scotia Department of Education and Culture and a 
Caretakers-Canada board member, will also participate. Mark is 
working on the sustainability conference being hosted by the province 
in connection with this fall's Francophone Summit.

When such a diverse group travels and lives together, sharing 
observations and questions, everyone's learning is enriched. That's 
why Caretakers encourages an inter-generational, multi-cultural, 
gender-balanced approach in environmental education.

This is a tremendous opportunity for learning, and the participants are 
sure to come back with increased skills, and an expanded awareness of 
the significance of ecotourism and of some of the science and 
technologies which must be considered in the preservation of  
biodiversity.

To make the trip, each participant has raised as much as possible to pay 
their own way. The Nova Scotia and Federal Departments of the 
Environment and the Mi'kmaq Fish and Wildlife Commission have 
also made contributions to costs.

With their help, we are now less than $1,000 short of the total amount 
needed to send all six people. So we are asking individuals and 
organizations if you would each consider making a small cash 
contribution to help ensure the whole group is able to go. We will be 
glad to acknowledge all contributors in our reporting on the project.

Contributions can be made to Caretakers of the Environment-Canada 
at any branch of the Royal Bank, or can be sent to us at 1657 Barrington 
Street, Suite 125, Halifax, N.S. B3J 2A1. You can contact Kathryn 
Graves, Chairperson, directly at (902) 423-9005.

Thank you for considering this request.

Caretakers-Canada is pleased to acknowledge the support of:
Nova Scotia Department of the Environment
Nova Scotia Department of Education and Culture
Canada World Youth
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
Seagull Foundation
McCurdy Printing Limited
Canada Trust-Friends of the Environment
Mi'kmaq Fish and Wildlife Commission

Caretakers-Canada is a member of:
Nova Scotia Environmental Network
Canadian Environmental Network

For further information about Caretakers:
www.boker.org.il/eng/caretakers

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