美国鸟类教育网络给俺发来的简报看到了这个消息。心中有些惆怅呢。。。。当初在美国的时候，满怀壮志觉得要把这个Flying WILD介绍到中国来，可回国快2年了，还是啥也没有做成。
Flying WILD Soars in India
This fall, long time friend of the Council for Environmental Education, Flying WILD and BEN, Ed McCrea, led an international course on education as a tool for conservation in India. Key partners in this effort included Environmental Education and Conservation Global (EECG), the Nature Conservation Society- Amravati, Amravati University and the Forestry Department of the State of Maharashtra.
The course illustrated educational concepts and processes by demonstrating how they can be employed to assist in meeting the conservation needs of any species and the habitats on which they depend. Participants also engaged in a workshop based on the Flying WILD program for teaching them how to be effective in working with school students and other youth.
According to Roopali Raghavan, working with Conservation Action Trust, and a participant in the workshop, the need for environment education is recognized by both the government as well as a number of non governmental organizations working in the environment and conservation field in India. India has a few organizations which have been instrumental in communicating the importance of the environment to the public at large. Very few of them work on specific subject areas such as wildlife or ornithology in particular. It has increasingly become imperative to spread the need for conservation of natural history, especially in urban India, where children rarely get an opportunity to observe and explore their natural environment.
"Flying WILD will be extremely useful for educators in such situations to communicate the message in an innovative and fun way to these children. As an environmental educator primarily working with school children, Flying WILD is an invaluable resource which can be adapted to effectively communicate the biology and behaviour of birds as well as the need for and issues related to their conservation." says Raghaven.
In addition to education, the NGO that Raghaven works with looks at conservation oriented research and advocacy. It recognizes that for effective conservation the involvement and support of the common man is essential and that change in attitude and behaviour with an objective to inculcate conservation values should be done with children. Raghaven plans to continue using Flying WILD, a bird education program, to aid with reaching their educational goals and objectives.
