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International Education Programs
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Participants act out a tiger mini-drama in a Teachers for Tigers workshop in India | WCS’s international conservation work grew out of the recognition that saving wildlife around the world requires bringing conservation science directly into the habitats where wildlife is found. The International Education Program seeks to fulfill the WCS mission by bringing appreciation of the beauty of nature, awareness of ecological principles and understanding of local conservation issues to people in regions where WCS scientists are working to save wildlife.
The depth of WCS’s approach to international education—working in many cases with school systems in priority regions to build effective, sustainable environmental education programs—has been admired and emulated by other zoos and conservation organizations.
These are some of the many accomplishments of the International Education Department:
•WCS’s International Education Department has worked in over 14 countries and has curricula in over 8 languages.
•WCS’s programs were the first foreign curricula invited into Chinese schools by China’s Ministry of Education—which has called their use "historic."
•WCS curricula are being used across Papua New Guinea, in some of the world’s most remote single-room schoolhouses, accessible only by boat and plane.
•WCS workshops in Guatemala and Bhutan have expanded the roster of countries where environmental educators are relying on WCS materials and training.
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Local Cuban children enjoy the presence of WCS staff |
•WCS’s award-winning Second Pan- American Congress for the Conservation of Wildlife through Education was the first-ever on-line conference devoted to environmental education: it involved more than 600 registered participants from 30 countries and hundreds of thousands more through a televised kickoff broadcast throughout Latin America.
•WCS’s Conservation Education Fellows program has trained over 40 educators from three continents in how to effectively create and run conservation education programs in their home countries.
International Education Staff:
Sara Hobel
Senior Vice President- Education
The Chauncey Stillman Chair in Wildlife Education
Nalini Mohan nmohan@wcs.org
International Trainer
Ana C Laborde alaborde@wcs.org
International Trainer and Curriculum Specialist
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