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Monitoring nature mixing people and cultures.

Hunters, students, rangers togheter

Gloria Grillanda

Becoming friends in the middle of the forest

Arianna Sanesi

One of the most important recipe for the success of the deer census is that each couple of operators has to be composed of people from different categories: beginners with experts, hunters with animal activists, rangers with students, people from different regions, etc.

Every night the couples composition is different, so all the participants have the opportunity to meet different people and different areas of the National Park.

Also the social and scientific events are organized to emphasize the occasions of experience exchange between all different kinds of participants.

The entire organization is focused on mixing participants of different categories as an important rule for the succes of the project.

The registration and logistics organization software created and managed by the Park agency do not allow the participants to express rigid preferences on accomodation and on pairing with specific persons during the official activities.

All participants are being informed why these rules are so important.

Combining people of different categories is an important rule for this monitoring activity, mainly for three reasons:

operators of the same category could have an interest in altering the data on the censed number of deer: if hunters declare more deer they could be called to reduce that number; for the same reason animal activists could have the interest in declaring a reduced number.
in the past, it happened that couples of operators of the same category (expecially hunters, that are obliged to partecipate to have the hunting permission) decided to rest in the forest instead of counting deer in a proper way. Mixed couples are controlling each others.
mixed couples are the best opportunity to exchange experiences and to break down cultural barriers.

Monitoring

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National

To create a model of integrated development of the scenic and the urban areas and raise local communities’ living standards

Er’dao Baihe Town

Rongjie Zhang

In order to reduce the pressures on the environmental capacity of Changbai Mountain Scenic Area, a total of RMB6 billion has been invested since 2010 to build 32 new scenic sites and 10 squares at and near Er’dao Baihe Town, a town neighbouring the northern part of Changbai Mountain Scenic Area. In 2019, Er’dao Baihe Town was rated as an AAAA Scenic Area, one of the national exemplary areas for integrated tourism, and accredited as an international Cittaslow town by Cittaslow International. Er’dao Baihe Town has become an open and free-of-charge scenic area and aims to offer high standard services for tourism, leisure and recreation. While providing high-quality and well-managed leisure space for local residents, it also help stimulate the development of accommodation and catering businesses in Changbai Mountain’s neighbouring communities. A new development model of sharing and co-building that serves tourists and brings happiness to local residents is hence achieved.

1. Thorough data analysis was conducted on recent years’ tourism in Changbai Mountain and the ecological carrying capacity of Changbai Scenic Area is hence determined based on science.

2. A scientific and sound tourism plan was formulated based on statistics. 3. Secured sufficient funding ensured the implementation of the planned projects.

Special attention should be given to localisation during the urbanisation process of the scenic area. Native ecology should still be the underpinning foundation and preserved as most as possible. The emphasis should be put on maintaining and highlighting local distinctive features instead of the sheer scale of urban development. It should be avoided that the authenticity of local landscapes or characteristics are destroyed only to copy a model of other places or cities.

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Solid Waste Logistics

The Ecozinha Institute seeks the most professional and efficient solution for each waste stream generated by its associates, maximizing the collection and recovery of post-consumer waste and optimizing the correct destination for recycling in the circular economy. It is responsible for managing the solid waste logistics involved in the collection and final destination of organic waste (leftovers and food scraps), glass and dry recyclable waste.

Creation of solid waste logistics with the private sector, which did not previously exist in Brasília;
Ecozinha has helped in the creation of new composting yards in the DF, to treat organic waste from bars and restaurants, thus stimulating composting companies;
It pioneered the implementation of glass collection, for this it was necessary to manufacture specific containers for glass storage and make commercial agreements with glass haulers for recycling.

At the beginning there were many difficulties due to the lack of service providers in the area. For this reason, Ecozinha has established a network of Intermediary Agents responsible for the collection, processing and routing (for reuse) of each waste stream.
To scale up, a technological tool is needed to monitor the collection, transportation and final destination of waste through specific data in order to estimate how much is being diverted from the landfill and to prove to entrepreneurs that their efforts and resources are paying off.

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National Solid Waste Policy

The National Solid Waste Policy (PNRS) was instituted by Law No. 12,305/10, proposing alternatives to divert waste from the final solid waste destination. This law also prohibits disposal in controlled dumps and landfills.

For the first time, PNRS established guidelines for the sector, which in addition to underlining the importance of the waste sector, non-explicitly promoted the introduction of alternatives for MSW treatment, in order to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

- Creation of state and local laws;

- Promotion of projects, initiatives and financing in the waste sector by Brazil;

- Promotion of national and international investments in the sector.

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Recurso_Política Nacional de Resíduos Sólidos

Recurso_Lei dos grandes geradores

Science popularization and education

Publicity in Beijing National Convention Center

Hanma National Nature Reserve

Ecological Museum

Hanma National Nature Reserve

Publicity campaigns in school

Hanma National Nature Reserve

Using the websites, WeChat Public Account, Newspapers, Popular Science Books, Popular Science Videos, Documentaries, News Coverage, Warning Signs, Field Education Sites, AR Hanma Exhibition Room, Ecological and Cultural Museum, Pamphlets, Summer Camps, Eco-Forums, Publicity campaigns in schools and communities, Eco-education and field studies base, etc., publicity and education are carried out to the public. This makes the public understand the importance of protecting moose population and improve the public awareness of ecological protection.

Professional and easy to understand publicity materials

A popular way of publicity

Application of new media

Application of new technology

Prepare different publicity materials for different target groups and adopt different publicity methods so that they can understand and accept the ideas you want to express.

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Entirety

Subnational

Transmission of study results to the relevant institutions and valorization

This stage enabled a set of action sheets to be drawn up for local managers and institutions (health services, customs, DEAL, Marine Park, etc.). In addition, the inventory was integrated into official databases, and abundance data were incorporated into the regional IUCN plan.

A conference to present the results was offered to the general public. This component enabled us to put words and photographs to echinoderms that are still too little known, and thus to raise awareness among a public previously unaware of the richness of Mayotte's echinoderms and their importance.

To broaden participation by the general public, it would have been desirable to include the creation of a visual exhibition in the project.

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Follow-up with Graduates

Testimonio Miguel

Fundación Karla Wheelock

Palabras de Jane Goodall

Fundación Karla Wheelock

The program includes working with the graduates who become "fellows" of the program and help subsequent participants.

Continuous training of graduates so that they can in turn teach the younger ones.

Linking up with groups that already have performed previous work, such as the boy scouts.

Children learn a lot from their peers, sometimes much more than they learn from their teachers.

Follow-up with graduates gives these young people the opportunity to continue contributing to the nurturing of nature and sustainable development.

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National

Prizes for the Winners

Equipo ganador en La Antártida

Fundación Karla Wheelock

Mi cumbre, mi decisión

Fundación Karla Wheelock

While all participants entered a training program, the winners won an extraordinary trip to Antarctica, for which they also had to prepare their minds and bodies.

On that trip, they also learned about the scientists who monitor the climate station and the site. There they saw how everything is interconnected and that their local projects had an impact on climate at the local level.

1) Funding: each expedition required financial resources that were managed by companies that sponsored the program.

2) Agreements with scientists or administrators of the Natural Protected Areas. The sites visited are not open to the public, so visiting them involved a process to obtain the appropriate permits.

It was very expensive to take them to Antarctica and it was only possible to take very few teams. That is why we started to give prizes to more teams, taking them to other natural protected areas, closed to mass visitation, where more children could have a learning experience and a larger number of children would be selected as winners.

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Global

Training Program

Grupo de Líderes

Fundación Karla Wheelock

Niños en talleres

Fundación Karla Wheelock

The transformation of meaningful learning comes precisely when the elements of knowledge and contact with nature converge for the participants, including 4 key values: 1) Building character, 2) Order, 3) Respect and 4) Unity or Solidarity.

Each activity, each expedition brings with it the strengthening of the participants' learning, with sensory and emotional exercises.

In the case of the Karla Wheelock Foundation, it was she who developed all the programs, planned the logistics of each trip, created the agreements and sought funding. In order to do so, she was also in an ongoing learning process where every day she had to become even more professional.

The process gave rise to a learning model, where the children learned, the trainers learned from the children, the parents learned from their children, the school learned from its students and the program learned with each expedition in order to improve its performance.

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Call for Action

¿Qué es un proyecto Ambiental?

Fundación Karla Wheelock

Launch a call to public schools in Mexico City for five children and one student to propose an environmental project for their schools.

Agreements with the Ministry of Education that would allow the issuance of a call for action in public schools.

1. Both children and teachers were not clear about what it means to undertake an environmental project, so this had to be taken into consideration.

2. The work to keep the government involved is complex because it must be managed with each governmental change and that becomes a very tiring endeavour, so we are now looking to create a legal initiative where children must prepare an environmental project in their schools in order to graduate.

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