but what's the environmental component of this?

Environmental Education sessions with the local community at Kasungu National Park

In a recent comment we were asked what we are actually doing. Theresa Sowrey, Executive Manager of the Southern Africa Wildlife College (SAWC) summarises the main objectives of this outreach and what has been done so far.

The main objectives of this outreach:

1. To conduct a monitoring and evaluation exercise on past SAWC students. This will determine if the training they received at the college is begin implemented back in their work places.. A training needs analysis is being conducted per park visited.

2. Environmental Education to communities surrounding the park we visited is being conducted and past students are being trained on how to conduct the environmental education sessions once the Outreach leaves their country.

3. expose Parks & Wildlife staff to the conservation network which has been established by conservationist across Africa via the GRAA

SAWC is extremely excited to announce that 18 past students have been located in Malawi. All 18 students have been promoted since receiving the training. This is wonderful news!!

Major ecological issues discussed included severe population sizes, bordering and encroaching national parks leading to the unsustainable utilisation of natural resources.

These issues were discussed in open sessions and training to address possible sustainable solution including responsible tourism were discussed.

If any of the readers have more questions, please feel free to ask and we will try and respond as we can.

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