save botswana - SAVE Wildlife Conservation Fund

Save BotswanaThe CBCMSThe Idea:With our work with children we aim to set up “youth centres” in small rural centers around Botswana´s nationalparks. These youth centres will have an “open door policy” with all children aged between 4 to 16 years. The workwith children has four wide ranging objectives, we want to provide them with:Nature and wildlife education:To develop and improve the children’s view of their environment, for them to see the potential in it and to spark adesire to view and protect their wildlife, national parks, and the vast and diverse wilderness areas around them. Wewill show children that predators are not things to be afraid of and they need not always be persecuted as ispresently “engrained” within them. We will show the children new perspectives so they see the value of conservingBotswana’s wildlife. Save Botswana will show them examples of how they can make their own future workingalongside their wildlife. This can be within the Botswana´s Department of Wildlife and National Parks in tourismworking within safari camps or in office based activities, in wildlife research, or in other organisations linkedultimately to wildlife. We will also show them how they can, even as farmers live alongside wildlife withoutnecessarily always having to persecute it.11.04.2012 SAVE - Education & Wildlife Conservation Fund 14