Planning to educate, educating to plan
Abstract title: Planning to educate, educating to plan: Conservation Education in an ecologically critical landscape. Conference: ESD for transforming education for children and youth Authors: Nimesh Ved, Jayanta Pathak, Firoz Ahmed & Bibhuti Lahkar Communicating author: Nimesh Ved: nimesh.explore@gmail.com Abstract text: Conservation education efforts across the country have been severely restricted by lack of adequate resources and absence of long term planning. As a corollary we have well intentioned individuals and organizations organizing disconnected events during wildlife week and environment days. Stress has been on generating stand alone materials and reaching out to higher numbers as opposed to coming up with a cohesive long term plan and strengthening capacities to implement the plan. We understand there is a dire need to have a long term plan for conservation education in place. A plan that is not only sensitive to loca...