The Asia/Pacific Programme

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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