Dec ZP Education reports 1 Final.pmd - Zoo Outreach Organisation

World Wildlife Week Celebrations by Wing Of Research in Local Development (WORLD)Manish Saxena*The Golden Jubilee celebration of Indian Wildlife Week 2004, agrand finale, to reiterate the need of conservation of wildlife notonly for the ecological balance but also for the life on earth.With the main objective is to associate our young generation inthe wildlife conservation campaign, the week long activitieswere design to have active participation of students in everyevent with the help of educational kits procured from ZooOutreach Organization, Coimbatore. We lay emphasis onteaching them in a fun loving atmosphere about the variousendangered and threatened species in our planet.Inauguration Programme:-Wildlife Week Celebration was started on 1 st Oct 2004 with the“Modeling of Wildlife Animal” at the Albert Hall Museum, RamNiwas Bagh, Jaipur. The programme started with the unveiling ofspecial poster on wildlife conservation by Justice R.P. Saxena,Patron WORLD. The programme was modeling show organizesfor the wildlife animals. The students walked in the costume ofvarious animals like tiger, lion, bear, monkey, etc. during the showeach one was giving message to the masses to get associatein the conservation drive. Our Project officer Punita recited thestories on the monkey, tigers. She explained the students abouttheir basic food habits, behaviors and their correlation with otheranimals and forest Punita read out and explained the PrimatesPackets and Tiger tool kits material to the students & interactivesession for the students to encourage their queries on theconservation of forest and wildlife.Our honorable guest Shri V.K. Gupta, Zonal Manager, PunjabNational Bank was welcome+d by the students by tying Rakhi.The students tied Rakhi to the Media Person to emphasize theimportance of media in the era of information technology in wildlifeconservation. Media person along with the students took oath towork with devotion and dedication for the conservation of Wildlifein the Country. In the end Capt Manish Saxena Director World,spelled out the vote of thanks to guest and Ms. Neeta Nawlakha,Principal Bright Horizon; Ms. Malti Gupta, Principal, Rainbow Kids;Ms. A. Lobo , Principal , St. Paul’s School, Durgapura for theircooperation and participation in the programme .2 nd Oct 2004On the second of wildlife week celebration, WORLD hasorganized the group activities for the students of Ryan internationalSchool. Our team under the leadership of our Project officerPunita Mathur along with volunteers presented a skit on “the vitalrole of Bats on the earth”. Honorary Wildlife Warden Shahid Khanexplained the importance of Bats with the help of material to thestudents. Student then participated in the activities like thememory game, counting of Bats, etc. Students enjoyed theactivities and were highly engross and keen to know more aboutthe conservation of the endangered species. The teaching facultywas also enthusiastic to be associated with unique learningprogrammes for conservation of wild animals.3 rd Oct 2004: -Third day celebration was the wildlife education programme forthe National Cadet Crop Cadets of Rajasthan Battalion. OurProgramme Manager, Manoj Singh gave the educational lectureto the cadets on the “Role of Cadets in the conservation ofWildlife”. Essay competition was organized for them. JusticeRanveer Sahay Verma, Retired Judge, Rajasthan High Court &Lt. Col Anupam Sinha, C O, NO. 1 Raj. N.C.C. Battalion gaveaway the gift Hampers and Certificate of Appreciation to theCadets.4 th Oct 2004WORLD has organized the “INTER SCHOOL ON THE SPOTPAINTING COMPETITION” for the students. Before the paintingcompetition, our team organized an Educational interactivesession based on the Kits “Dare to Care for Bears” for thestudents. Students were divided in four groups as per the categoryof bears, category wise their habits and habitat were explainedto the students. After that students groups participated in the“One Minute” game. Then students participated in the paintingcompetition. The students from St. Paul’s Schools, C- Scheme;St Paul’s School, Durgapura; Vidyashram School; S.V. PublicSchool; Ryan International School; participated in the competition.The best painting was selected and invited for the prize distributionto be held on 5 th Oct. 2004.5 th Oct, 2004On the fifth day of the week, WORLD has organized large numberof programme. The programme began with the “Deep Prajjawlan”by our distinguish guest “Shri V.K. Gupta”, Zonal Manager, PunjabNational Bank. Young students of S.V. Public School presenteda skit on “Vanya Jeev Jeevan Ka Aadhar” {Wildlife: the base oflife}. Young students as wild animals and Adhivasi gave a highlyintrospective depiction of the relation among human beings, wildanimals and forest. Students were divided in two groups- senior& junior group for the “Vanya Jeev Daud” [Wild Animal race]. Itwas a lovely moment to see wild animals running on the track ,as if the jungle has come down to the city. Winners were giventhe certificate of appreciation by WORLD Organization. Thenthe time came for the “Jungle Panchayat”, a meeting of all thewild animals, to present their current agenda to the human beings.The young children below the eight years of age participated in it.Each animal presented its views and current need of conservationnot only to the judges but also to large gathering of students,media person and parents. The appeal of young students’touched the hearts of everyone . Chief Guest Justice AnshumanSingh, Former Governor, Rajasthan and Gujarat, addressed thestudents and motivated them to join the conservation drive runby WORLD organization. He stressed that each students shouldact as a catalyst in associating at least five people in society towork for saving the endangered species. He then gave away theprized to winners of different activities organized during the weekcelebration. Shri M.L. Mehta, (Patron WORLD) Former ChiefSecretary, Government of Rajasthan appreciated the studentsand motivate them to work as active member for the conservationof wildlife so that we could gift the earth as beautiful as we gotfrom our father and fore fathers Capt Manish spelled out thevote of thanks to Shri Anshuman Singh, Shri M.L. Mehta , ShriV.K .Gupta, Lt. Col Anupam Sinha, ;Shri Upendra Kaushik,Principal Vidyashram School; Ms. Rita Taneja , S.V. PublicSchool; Ms A . Lobo, Director; St. Paul’s; Ms. Mohini Bakshi,Seedling School; parents, students and media persons.6 th Oct, 2004The programme began with plantation by the Eco Club Membersin N.K. Public school. Our volunteers gave a small skit underlining