1973 iucn yearbook

Environmental Education and Public Awareness
The task of developing an informed public, aware of conservation values,
has long occupied IUCN's attention. It is coupled with an interest in
building environmental concern into education, including out-of-school
activities.
In recent years most of the project effort has been directed to those
echelons of decision where school curricula are planned. Formal meetings
organized by IUCN, usually international in scope but held on a regional
basis, have stressed the necessity of incorporating environmental conservation
into school work at all levels and on a continuing basis, rather
than in one or two courses in secondary schools as is the usual case.
Out-of-school education has also been stressed as an opportunity to be
used. By all measures, these conferences have been highly successful.
Concurrently, a number of projects have been directed at the production
of related and complementary materials. Several of these have been
reported on previously as work has covered a period of several years.
Near the end of the year support was received from UNEP to intensify
IUCN's activities in creating conservation awareness, particularly in
relation to the problems of developing countries. This involves some
realignment of existing work and further action in the field of public
education.
IUCN Statutes require publication of an Annual Report and dissemination
of information on conservation. Beyond these statutory requirements,
IUCN members and others are entitled to the most careful summary
and analysis of conservation problems, as well as full information
on the Union's programme. This is accomplished through the issuance
of this Yearbook, the Bulletin, and a series of other publications on the
activities of the Union in the promotion of conservation throughout the
world. These are discussed in detail under the section on IUCN Organizational
Matters.
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