EDUCATION
WWF's education projects aim to make people of all ages aware
of the need to conserve nature and to help them find ways to do
so. These projects vary widely, ranging from formal education
schemes, like the environmental syllabus introduced in Malaysian
schools, to informal activities such as involving children in
reforesting New Zealand's Motutapu Island, and launching Pakistan's
first Urdu comic book, which has a conservation theme.
Environmental education centres also play an important part in
WWF's education work. A centre at Hong Kong's Mai Po marshes provides
thousands of town dwellers with a rare opportunity to see wildlife
in its natural habitat and provides training facilities for conservation
managers from China.
" Losing Mai Po marshes would be like spoiling our backyard."
Schoolboy, Hong Kong
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