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GA 1969 RES 020 - Activity Report

Submitted by Davidson.Sargunam on Mon, 02/04/2019 - 18:01
General Information
School education in India
IUCN Constituent: 
F517E09E-5094-E611-97F4-005056BA6623
Period covered: 
2018
Geographic scope: 
South and East Asia
Country/Territory: 
India
In implementing this Resolution your organization has worked/consulted with...
IUCN Commissions: 
F517E09E-5094-E611-97F4-005056BA6623
IUCN Secretariat: 
No
Other non-IUCN related organisations: 
Tribal Foundation, Nagercoil, India
Implementation
Indicate and briefly describe any actions that have been carried out to implement this Resolution: 
ActionDescriptionStatus
Education/Communication/Raising awarenessTribal Foundation imparts environmental awareness and education to school children and to indigenous children through multifarious ways as greening the Earth by planting tree saplings conducting meetings, seminars in educational institutions and organizing treks in forests and organizing wildlife photo exhibitions. The Foundation takes children to forests to have participatory environmental education on forest eco-system. It enables them to interact with the forest officials, indigenous people and those living in forest fringes. It celebrates all environment related days as World Environment Day, World Forest Day, World Water Day, world Bio-diversity Day, World Tiger Day, World Elephant Day, International Ozone Day and other days. It conducts Photo Exhibitions on wild animals, wetland birds, forest birds, road kills of wild animals, plastic menace on various ecosystems as forests, terrestrial and marine. The Foundation imparts education on the negative impacts of plastic pollution in forests, terrestrial and in marine eco-systems and how it pollutes the affects the animals, land, birds and marine animals using Power Point Presentation. Vehement anti-plastics campaign are conducted as seminars and rallies by school children. We plant more than 4,000 tree saplings in various educational institutions every year with the support of the Forest Department as greening the earth program and to inculcate the students on the importance of creating green cover on the earth as a carbon ink and to combat impact of the climate change factors. We ask the students to plant the saplings and maintain them till they are established.On-going
Please report on the result /achievement of the actions taken: 
more than 4000 tree saplings are planted and maintained. more than 1000 students are taken to various ecosystems for exposure.
What challenges have you encountered in implementing this Resolution and what measures have you taken to overcome them?: 
Tribal Foundation has limited funds only, collected from well wishers in India. If we get more funds the Foundation can expand the greening program in a wider way and conduct the other programs in many schools covering more students, teachers and the public.
Identify and briefly describe what future actions are planned for the implementation of this Resolution: 
Future ActionDescription
Education/Communication/Raising awarenessWe will repeat the programs every year to schools and involve students and teachers in the environment programs.
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