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Caretakers of the Environment-Canada Can you help? Later this month, a unique group of Nova Scotians will be going to Costa Rica for two weeks of intensive learning about native participation in ecotourism. They will also attend an international conference on biodiversity, environment, and sustainable development. What's unusual about the group is that it includes three high school students from different parts of the province, two First Nations fisheries/wildlife workers, and a government administrator with responsibility for a conference on sustainability that the Nova Scotia government will host in the fall in connection with the Francophone Summit. What the group has in common is that they are all members of Caretakers of the Environment International. As many of you know, Caretakers is an international voluntary network of people and organizations who work together to support high school environmentalists, both students and their mentors in the community. Our goal is to stimulate and improve the quality of environmental education globally. In Nova Scotia, Caretakers-Canada works with high school environmental clubs to sustain the annual Student Provincial Environmental Conference (SPEC), sponsored and developed by students and teachers from a different Nova Scotia high school every year for the past ten years. Then SPEC participants have an opportunity to attend the annual Caretakers international conference that brings students and teachers from around the world together, for mutual support (very important for high-school environmentalists) and to exchange information on their various projects and national policies. This year, since the international conference is in Costa Rica, we've taken the opportunity to focus on how we can learn from the experience of the indigenous people of Costa Rica, when it comes to ecotourism development. The delegation consists of three students, Evie MacLeod of Judique, Noel Doucette of Chapel Island and Natasha Moore of Halifax plus Eugene Denny, a field technician with the Eskasoni Fish and Wildlife Commission and Allister Marshall, a Fisheries Guardian, and member of the Council of the Chapel Island First Nation. Mark Bannerman of the Nova Scotia Department of Education and Culture and a Caretakers-Canada board member, will also participate. Mark is working on the sustainability conference being hosted by the province in connection with this fall's Francophone Summit. When such a diverse group travels and lives together, sharing observations and questions, everyone's learning is enriched. That's why Caretakers encourages an inter-generational, multi-cultural, gender-balanced approach in environmental education. This is a tremendous opportunity for learning, and the participants are sure to come back with increased skills, and an expanded awareness of the significance of ecotourism and of some of the science and technologies which must be considered in the preservation of biodiversity. To make the trip, each participant has raised as much as possible to pay their own way. The Nova Scotia and Federal Departments of the Environment and the Mi'kmaq Fish and Wildlife Commission have also made contributions to costs. With their help, we are now less than $1,000 short of the total amount needed to send all six people. So we are asking individuals and organizations if you would each consider making a small cash contribution to help ensure the whole group is able to go. We will be glad to acknowledge all contributors in our reporting on the project. Contributions can be made to Caretakers of the Environment-Canada at any branch of the Royal Bank, or can be sent to us at 1657 Barrington Street, Suite 125, Halifax, N.S. B3J 2A1. You can contact Kathryn Graves, Chairperson, directly at (902) 423-9005. Thank you for considering this request. Caretakers-Canada is pleased to acknowledge the support of: Nova Scotia Department of the Environment Nova Scotia Department of Education and Culture Canada World Youth Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Seagull Foundation McCurdy Printing Limited Canada Trust-Friends of the Environment Mi'kmaq Fish and Wildlife Commission Caretakers-Canada is a member of: Nova Scotia Environmental Network Canadian Environmental Network For further information about Caretakers: www.boker.org.il/eng/caretakers --end-- -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- You received this because you are subscribed to "sust-mar", the Sustainable Maritimes mailing list. To unsubscribe, send email to <majordomo@chebucto.ns.ca> with "unsubscribe sust-mar" (without quotes) as the body of your message. To post a message to sust-mar subscribers, send it to <sust-mar@chebucto.ns.ca> Posts that are off-topic or excessive length (10K) will be rejected. For help contact <sust-mar-owner@chebucto.ns.ca>
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