For more community involvement and awareness on wildlife conservation, a three-week Species Conservation Course, is being organised in Maharashtra with international experts. This is the first such course to be organised in the country.
Experts from Environment Education Conservation Global (EECG), USA, Nature Conservation Society, Amravati (NCSA) , Satpuda Foundation in collaboration with SGB Amravati University and Maharashtra Wildlife Department are organising this International course in Behaviour Change Conservation Campaigns: A new tool for Species Conservation with a Focus on the Tiger in India.
The course will be inaugurated on November 11. Its module has been designed by Kishore Rithe, former member, Standing Committee, National Board For Wildlife. The course will be conducted at three places, SGB Amravati University, Melghat Tiger Reserve and Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve.
“The course has been organised to prepare emerging conservation practitioners and forest staff so that they can learn how to use media tools and techniques to change the community behavior to address the issues of species conservation’, said Rithe. Participants from various tiger range countries including Bangladesh, Nepal and other countries are expected to participate in the event.
The issues of poaching and wildlife trade , human-wildlife conflicts will majorly figure in the course. The participants will learn of the media tools and using its techniques effectively in conservation education to change the behaviour of various target groups of communities for tiger conservation issues.
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The course has been organised to prepare emerging conservation practitioners and forest staff so that they can learn how to use media tools and techniques
The issues of poaching and wildlife trade , human-wildlife conflicts will majorly figure in the course