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P A G E 2
The SAVA Conservation Initiative Moves into Its Second Year
Continued
S A V A C O N S E R V A T I O N
V O L U M E 2 , I S S U E 1
The DLC-SC teacher training program in environmental education continues
to move forward with trainings of school directors over the Easter holidays in
April (2012), and in September, at the end of the summer vacation. Now all 325
directors of schools in the Sambava and Andapa school districts have been
trained in use of the 64-page Teacher’s Training Manual (“Guide Pratique du
Maitre”). Once again we owe a great thanks to the Madagascar Fauna Group
(MFG) environmental education training team of Mr. André, Mr. Gimod and Mr.
Modeste for carrying out the director trainings. The week-long September train-
ings were held in Sambava, Andapa and Mandena simultaneously.
The next step in the program is the primary objective of the trainings, the
actual training of the teachers. The directors will be tasked to execute the
teacher trainings, but with assistance from the more experienced MFG trainers.
T h i s
next stage will
take more time
to
cover
all
schools,
as
there are 2,500+
teachers in the
two school dis-
tricts combined!
We are pres-
ently
seeking
funding to carry
out this daunt-
ing but essential
last step in the
process.
Director Training in Environmental Education
By Charlie Welch
students
, whose work also benefits DLC-SC conservation objectives. Whew! And oh yes,
we now have a
newsletter
such that we can keep our supporters current on project
activities.
That might seem like an overly ambitious list of activities for a first-year conservation
project, and I must admit that there are times in which we wonder about that ourselves
(with only a total staff of two in Madagascar!). However, it is difficult to overemphasize the
urgency of the environmental situation in Madagascar, and in particular the unique SAVA
region. The Marojejy and Anjanaharibe-Sud landscape together protect more than 800 km
2
of mountainous rainforest! We are not expecting to achieve conservation miracles, but our
presence in the region is very definitely having an impact. It is important that we move
without delay.
School directors in a training breakout session
Photo by Lanto Andrianandrasana