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..,!"■".: affi . ^ ^ Ill LOOK BACK AT HISTORY Refracted Images • Rana Regime • Unquiet Uttarakhand Tanakpur on Thames • Refugees Unwelcome 
WWF World Wide Fund For Nature (formerly World Wildlife Fund} International Secretariat, 1196 Gland, Switzerland. Outside the industrialised west, no-one has to be told to respect their elders. It's simply the way society is organised. Which is why WWF - World Wide Fund for Nature tries to work with older people in the villages of the rainforests. With WWF's help, they learn to teach the younger members of their communities about conservation. In Kafue Flats, Zambia, it's Chief Hamusonde (93), Chief Bakary (78), is our man in Anjavi-mihavanana, northern Madagascar. In Ban Klong Sai, Thailand, we invoke the Venerable Papasro Bhikkhu, seventy-three year old chief Buddhist monk. This isn't just expediency, it's how WWF believes conservation projects should be run. Before you teach someone, we believe you have to learn from them. We spend years visiting village after village, talking to the people, listening to them, living with them, understanding how they live their lives. Only then are we able to gain th? confidence of the village elders. Once they realise we're on their side, our elderly converts promote conservation with a zeal that belies their years. "Uncle" Prom (68), another of our Thai community leaders, tells us that he frequently gets scolded when he starts telling people in the market that they should leave the forests alone. But he gets results. Uncle Prom and his fellow villagers recently managed to prevent a new logging concession, and set up a community forest where tree felling is now forbidden. Ninety-three year old Chief Hamusonde also makes things happen. Income from the Kafue Rats game reserve in Zambia is funding a school, a clinic and new water boreholes for the local villages. In Madagascar, seventy-eight year old Chief Bakary's village makes a profit by selling fruit grown in their new tree nursery. More importantly, Chief Bakary's village now takes fewer trees from the rainforest because the nursery can provide firewood and poles for construction. Not that we don't believe in catching them while they're young, WWF also organises special training courses to help teachers incorporate conservation into the curriculum. 20,000 primary teachers in Madagascar have already taken part. And WWF produce teaching aids as wcl! as teachers. We commission educational factsheets, booklets, posters and videos in over twenty different languages. These are distributed to schools and colleges all over the world, if you can help our work with a donation or a legacy please write to the membership officer at the address opposite. You only have to look around you to see that the world still has an awful lot to learn about conservation. Directory: collections -> journals -> himal -> pdf pdf -> Megalith to Chorten Speak up for the Khas pdf -> He stress of uhange pdf -> Alternative: bi-monthly pdf -> Himalayan magazine pdf -> Hima la y an pdf -> Rhino Surgery Lima Meeting French Imaginings pdf -> Himalayan magazin e pdf -> Sick of heights era fosters hero pdf -> NRs20 irs12 U$6 issn 1012-9804 jul/aug 1989 pdf -> NRs20 irs12 U$6;; : issn 1012-9804 Download 4.63 Mb. Share with your friends:
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