Saving Wildlife Through Environmental Education

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Donate 2,000 educational kits, containing video and informational folder to public schools in the Distrito Federal state. progress reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Many schools in the Dsitrito Federal are located in poor peripheries where there is still native vegetation and wild animals. People that live there, many of them children and teenagers, have the habit of capturing wild animals to sell them in markets. This is why we have to promote an educational work with this students, to make them understand that taking animals from nature causes not only serious damage to the environment but can also bring them and their families dangerous diseases.

Activities

The project includes production and distribution of educational material, and speeches by Renctas’ volunteers to help teachers promote pedagogical activities with their students.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $5,150
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $27,850
Total Funding Goal: $33,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

This project has the capacity to benefit for one year an estimated public of 40,000 child and teenagers that study in public schools. According to official estimation, an educational material has a 5 years life.

Project Message

The educational material that Renctas develops has helped us a lot in our work with students, it made us discover that fauna is everyone’s wealth and that we have the obligation to conserve it.
- Theresa de Fátima, Public school teacher

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Raulff Lima,
Executive Coordinator
Caixa Postal 6231
Brasilia, DF CEP 70740-971
Brazil
55+ (61) 3368-8970
Email:

Project Sponsor

Ashoka Innovators for the Public

Organization

RENCTAS Logo RENCTAS
SCLN 214, Bloco C, Ed. Portinari, Sala 113
Brasília, DF 70 873-530
Brazil
55+ (61) 3368-8970
http://www.renctas.org.br

Learn more about RENCTAS and the project team.



Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Brazil and can also be found under Environment.

For more information about Brazil, read the Human Development Report on Brazil or the Wikipedia entry for Brazil.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on August 14, 2007.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 03, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

Article about RENCTAS in Innovations Magazine

By Raulff Lima - Executive Coordinator, August 14, 2007 05:35 PM

Attached is an article about RENCTAS and our use of the internet to battle animal trafficking.

Read more about how citizens helped us report animal trafficking and our efforts with the Brazilian government.
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