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International Education Programs
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Participants act out a tiger mini-drama | 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.
•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.
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Local Cuban children enjoy the presence of WCS staff |
•WCS workshops in Cuba, Costa Rica, Mexico and India have expanded the roster of countries where environmental educators are relying on WCS materials and training.
•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.
International Education Staff:
Annette Berkovits
Senior Vice President- Education
The Chauncey Stillman Chair in Wildlife Education
Tom Naiman
Director, International Education and Curriculum Development
Nalini Mohan
International Trainer
Ana C Laborde
International Trainer and Curriculum Specialist
Ian Signer
International Trainer and Curriculum Specialist
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