1973 iucn yearbook

Thailand - mobile education unit
Several IUCN/WWF projects are concerned with assisting in the establishment
of conservation awareness, particularly in relation to activities
in national parks and reserves. Action has concentrated on the development
of education centres in parks and in the provision of mobile units
that permit the use of visual education techniques in village areas.
Indonesia — training of graduates in nature reserve management
At present there is a shortage of Indonesian scientists having the necessary
basic training to manage the country's nature reserve system. There
are no Indonesian graduates working in the nature reserves and it is
impossible to provide foreign scientists with counterparts.
Otto Soemarwoto, Director of the newly established Institute of
Ecology at Padjadjaran University and Professor of Bio-management,
is starting to organize courses and training in ecological management of
nature reserves in cooperation with the Directorate of Nature Conservation.
Project support is being given covering the training of graduates
with special emphasis on field activities. The major emphasis will be on
practical training, mostly involving field work in a nature reserve. Five
students are expected to enter the programme, beginning in June, next year.
First Caribbean working conference on environmental education
This project covers the organization of a working conference on environmental
education for local teachers and science programme administrators
in order to build a regional curriculum, to devise teaching aids
and organize teacher training courses.
A one-week conference for approximately 40 West Indian teachers
and administrators (primarily from smaller, English-speaking islands)
is proposed for the summer of 1974, to be held within the Virgin Islands
National Park on St. John and utilizing park personnel for resources
and logistics. The Virgin Islands Environmental Studies Programme
will be used as a teaching tool to expand the environmental awareness
and technical skills of West Indian science teachers now beginning to
explore means to establish their own environmental education programmes
as a part of the regular curriculum.
Educators, scientists, environmentalists, and other resource personnel
from the Caribbean Conservation Association, the Island Resources
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