environmental education

There are already numerous species kept in zoos which are now extinct in their natural state and realistically speaking there are likely to be far more of these housed in the future as the biodiversity crisis intensifies. The purpose of this thread is for zoochatters to highlight, discuss and...

Small mammals often get a raw deal in both general conservation terms and zoos in comparison to large and "charismatic" megafauna. The impact of this bias is often reflected in the lacklustre way that small taxa are exhibited to the public at many zoos. However, there are also many positive...

I love visiting natural history museums around the world. I've noticed that many of these institutions house live displays of smaller animals whether for temporary exhibitions or as part of a permanent collection. Personally, I always feel that seeing live specimens / species alongside the dead...

I was talking to day with a friend of mine in the Dominican Republic who was telling me that schools now commonly teach children about Hispaniola's endemic species such as the Solenodon. Needless to say, I find this sort of environmental education being implemented early on particularly...

Hello, I am a third year Primary Education student at the University of St Mark and St John and I am currently writing my dissertation. I am looking into the importance of environmental education and whether or not it should be included as a discrete subject in the National Curriculum and I...

I really think that this is quite a wonderful idea to get young children acquainted to nature at a very young age. I feel like more programs like this are especially crucial when we are living in a ecological crisis with things such as climate change, major biodiversity decline etc. Not to...