SAVE BOTSWANA

Save Botswana
The CBCMS
The Idea:
With our work with children we aim to set up “youth centres” in small rural centers around Botswana´s national
parks. These youth centres will have an “open door policy” with all children aged between 4 to 16 years. The work
with 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 a
desire to view and protect their wildlife, national parks, and the vast and diverse wilderness areas around them. We
will show children that predators are not things to be afraid of and they need not always be persecuted as is
presently “engrained” within them. We will show the children new perspectives so they see the value of conserving
Botswana’s wildlife. Save Botswana will show them examples of how they can make their own future working
alongside their wildlife. This can be within the Botswana´s Department of Wildlife and National Parks in tourism
working within safari camps or in office based activities, in wildlife research, or in other organisations linked
ultimately to wildlife. We will also show them how they can, even as farmers live alongside wildlife without
necessarily always having to persecute it.
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