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Advenviro Camp submits proposal for eco-club

Following the success of the Winter School - ADVENVIRO 2006 - SAEON received the following proposal from the learners who attended the School:

ADVENVIRO CAMP MAKES A PROPOSAL FOR AN ECO-CLUB!

As we are the first group of learners to attend a camp organised by SAEON, we felt it a necessity to extend our learning experience through an eco-club. What we have learned at the camp is beyond words and explanations. We have been given a whole new perspective towards nature conservation.

As Jacques Moller* once said, 'Environmental education is the key to conservation'. We now stand firm on those words.

SAEON has changed us, made us products of their knowledge and invested in us. It would only be our pleasure to show them how much this has advanced our knowledge. An eco-club is a great and exciting way of creating young and up-coming scientists, biologists and conservationists to fight against the destruction of nature.

ADVENVIRO 2006 can make that happen! Yes, we can kick-start this eco-club, not on our own, but with anchorage and kind support from SAEON. This eco-club can help ADVENVIRO 2007 to arrive at the camp with some background knowledge of the overall course that will be given.

# The group of 2006 will help collect (identify) and train three potential learners from every school to form this club.

# SAEON will provide the club with activities on which the club will lay their focus, while the group of 2006 shares some topics which they received at their camp.

# The group of 2007 will then do the same to advance the potential group of 2008.

We are overloaded with visions and ideas to make the club a great success, through dedication and determination, WE CAN!!!

We feel proud and brave to say that SAEON needs us in order to have an even brighter future. Invest in this Eco-club and it WILL benefit you, us and the rest of the people!

ADVENVIRO CAMP -. . . .Conserve today for a better tomorrow.

* Jacques Moller is a conservation officer at the Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre (HESC), one of SAEON's partners in Education Outreach. Jacques was one of the presenters at the Winter School.


Johan Pauw, Head of SAEON, Sibongile Mokoena, SAEON’s Education Outreach Coordinator, and Joe Sibyia, Education Outreach Facilitator at the Ndlovu Node, are to convene a meeting to consider the proposal.

"SAEON's response to the proposal is positive and the suggestion has been that the ADVENVIRO ECO-CLUB should produce an action plan for SAEON's consideration and endorsement," says Sibongile.

ADVENVIRO 2006 Learners
Amanda Thobela Jacques Moller

"An eco-club is a great and exciting way of creating young and up-coming scientists, biologists and conservationists to fight against the destruction of nature." - The group of learners who attended SAEON’s Winter School, ADVENVIRO 2006, makes a strong case for an eco-club. (Picture © Joe Sibiya)

Amanda Thobela wrote the proposal on behalf of the group who attended ADVENVIRO 2006. Amanda was also a girl learner presenter during the Women in Science programme presented by SAEON and HESC (Picture © Joe Sibiya)

Jacques Moller, conservation officer at the Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre (HESC), explains how to identify and track animals by using the four senses - touch, smell, hear and sight (Picture © Joe Sibiya)

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