Educating local communities in Tanzania to learn about biodiversity and enhance it: this is the objective of Nature Ambassadors launched by the non-profit SeedScience to involve 300 students aged between 13 and 18 who live on the border between the regions of Morogoro and Pwani and initiate them into conservation projects of some native animal and plant species.
“Education is the key to the sustainable development of a community and a country and teachers play a crucial role”, explained Michele Raggio, project coordinator and president of SeedScience, an association of volunteers active for years in Africa for educate and train generations of very young people in science and environmental protection. The new Nature Ambassadors project, Learn without borders, Preserve within the community, continues the work done in previous years in Tasmania by involving already trained young people and will also have the support of the international group of National Geographic Explorers. “As with all our projects – added Raggio – the main objective is to ensure that the local population acquires knowledge and skills to independently carry on what we started in collaboration”.
Two years of activity on the border between the regions of Morogoro and Pwani, an area rich in biodiversity where, however, there is a strong need to make the community aware of the value of those ecosystems. “All the efforts scientists are making to learn more about the world are worth nothing if done just to advance science,” said Tsiory Andrianavalona, paleontologist involved in the SeedScience project and co-founder of ExplorerHome Madagascar. “The essential thing for us – she added – will be to let future generations know the work done and its value”.
Source: Ansa
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