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Introduction || Aims & Objectives || Project Team || Work Progress |
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Introduction: |
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MEP-KBG project will
develop the capacity of teachers in the remote biodiversity rich area of
Tamil Nadu to raise awareness amongst teachers, primary school children,
their parents and the local community about the importance of native flora
and forests and the need to use plants sustainably. The project will
involve several components including I) organization of a series of
facilitative brainstorming workshops for concerned education department
officials, environmental education training workshops for teachers,
strengthening school gardens, establishing BioFriend competitions for
students, publication of a teacher training manual on the appreciation of
bioresources, II) a series of village-level participatory meetings to
identify local environmental issues, III) guidelines for developing a
model genetic garden, IV) demonstration of green forming practices and V)
facilitate the setting up of a number of environmental education and
development societies. |
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Need for this work |
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The literacy level in Tamil Nadu is approximately 60% and most illiterate
rural dwellers make their living by the injudicious collection and sale of
forest resources. For some months in a year they are involved in
agricultural activities; but several inorganic chemicals and pesticides
that seriously affect the soil health and fertility are used. Thanks to
free education and school meal schemes of the Government of Tamil Nadu,
the children of these rural dwellers attend primary school. An opportunity
therefore exists to influence these children and their parents about the
sustainable uses of natural resources through environmental education
programmes at primary school. To reach the largest number of children, the
project will work with primary school teachers. For the past two years, the Kodaikanal Botanic Garden has been organizing teacher training workshops and promoting the setting up of school gardens. Many more teachers, than could be accommodated under the previous project, are keen to undertake training in environmental education and there is a strong desire to establish more environmental education and development societies. |
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