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Zambia: environmental educationInstitue and IUCN have worked together to train broadcasters from theSouthern African Development Community (SACD) region.As a result, coverage of environmental issues by the media - both print andelectronic - has improved. More needs to be done, however, in particular forrurally-based journalists.Need for a strategyA strategy for environmental education has developed slowly in Zambia andmuch remains to be done. A fully-articulated policy on the environment hasto be drawn up by the government, with a policy for environmental educationwhich would serve as the basis of a strategy. (Zambia has some way to go inimplementing the “Caring for the Earth” document and Agenda 21 adoptedat the World Conference on Environment and Development, which wouldserve as a guide for an expanded programme of environmental education).Government Departments dealing with resources - for example, theDepartments of Water, Energy and Lands - should make a concertedcontribution to the development of environmental education. There is a needfor coordination of policies relating to environmental and natural resourcesissues among Ministries.Environmental education lacks trained manpower at the primary, secondaryand teacher training levels and funding for all aspects of the programmeneeds to be increased.Gaps and priorities need to be set in relation to target groups; few activitiesreach women and youth. A strategy requires the development of methodsand techniques of educating all the target groups, accompanied by thedesign, development, printing and distribution of appropriate teachingmaterials. Techniques which give an inter-disciplinary or multi-disciplinarycharacter to subjects in the curriculum have to be worked out.There is a need for NGOs to coordinate their environmental educationactivities.Finally, there is an overriding need for a national coordination ofenvironmental education.Demonstrating the benefitsThe aims of environmental education - creating awareness, changingattitudes, giving individuals and communities knowledge of the environment,equipping them with skills to identify and solve environmental problems,and mobilizing popular participation - call for a prior understanding ofcurrent perceptions. In its work with teachers, ZEEP has tried to establishwhat people say, do, and think but do not express about the environment. Anindication of some of the perceptions the education programme has to work151
Planning education to care for the earthwith are shown in the box. In order to do away with misconceptions and tochange popular attitudes - often negative to environmental protection - thebenefits of conservation have to be made apparent.Education programmes have to be based on what the community perceivesabout the environment and to work on the barriers people must overcome inmaking changes in practice.Woman from the Bisa tribe, Zambia, carrying firewood.Photo: WWF Roger Le GuenSome Zambian Perceptions of the EnvironmentWild Animals• There are still a lot of wild animals in Zambia. They cannotfinish.Any animal which kills a person should be killed too.• The Government stops us from killing the animals, so we have togo to hunt when the government is not seeing us.• Rich men with big guns come to hunt while we look on. They killlarge numbers of animals while we starve for meat.• They asked us to move from our original village so that theycould create a national park. Who benefits from the nationalpark?152
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ForewordMy introduction to IUCN - T
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Influences on pro-environmental pra
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A basis for environmental education
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