Snow Leopard Conservancy -- Education (Art Contest)

Snow Leopard Conservancy - Education Program

Linkage with Jane Goodall Institute

In early 2003, we linked the sister school program with the Jane Goodall Institute’s Roots & Shoots program. In the summer of 2003, Kunzang Dolma and Deachen Angmo, members of the Moravian Mission School’s Roots & Shoots club, participated in a four-day field trip into Hemis National Park, to look for signs of snow leopard and other wildlife. It was the first nature-oriented field trip of their lives. Read their report.

Kima, a teacher at the Moravian Mission School, provided us with the following description of the activities planned by the club:

The girls are planning to take up the project for charting out the various waterways in Leh. They have divided themselves into 4 groups with each group taking up some specific areas. They would then combine their findings for a composite report. They went today to the various sites to shoot them on the camera. They would compare these with those they plan to take during the summer (tourist) season. This should build up to an action plan... and I guess this is where they will get to discover their innate creativity and talents.

They are all very excited and I am rather surprised by their enthusiasm (they said they didn’t want to meet to just talk but wanted some tangible “practical” stuff). The finer details, though not obvious now, seem to invent themselves as the project defines itself. The WWF, Leh office has also offered to help us with their water-testing kits (each test works to about 300 rupees) and the group would conduct these tests at various places. That’s something really exciting. So, Roots & Shoots is definitely getting on well. This is a first time even for the staff-advisors but the enthusiasm and participation of the children is very encouraging.

In February 2004, students at the Jane Goodall Environmental Magnet School in Salem, Oregon sent a package of stream monitoring equipment, including a microscope, to the Maryul Roots & Shoots club. We look forward to receiving their report later in 2004.

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