Nature Education Camps: Nature Education Camps are organized for students in Gujarat. Now the government has decided to double the number of these camps. Let us know what these camps are.
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Gujarat Govt: The Gujarat government will double the number of ‘Nature Education Camps’. The number of nature education camps will be increased to 2000 in the academic year 2023-24. The state government has given information about this. The number of nature education camps is being increased so that experiential learning can be promoted. Actually, Nature Education Camp (nec) are organized for school going children. Its purpose is to make children aware of forests, wildlife and biodiversity through informal education.
Principal Chief Conservator of Forest (Wildlife) and Chief Wildlife Warden Nityanand Srivastava said that currently 1.5 lakh students are being taught through nature education camps. But right now we are thinking that why not increase the funding a little and teach 15 lakh students.
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He told that to achieve this goal, the government has decided to increase the annual quota of Nature Education Camps to 2000 from the present quota of 1000 camps. In fact, Nityanand Srivastava said these things in a one-day workshop Nature Education: Challenges and Strategy organized by the Gujarat Ecology Commission (GEC).
How did the Nature Education Camp start?
Through the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), India naturalist Luvkumar Khachar and others came up with the concept of nature education. He started organizing Nature Education Camps in Gujarat in 1978-79. From 1979-80, the Forest Department of Gujarat also started setting up such camps. Its purpose was to make students understand about nature and ecosystem very well, so that children can form a bond with the environment.
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There are 50 such locations in the state where camping is organized. Srivastava said that these campings will be upgraded. Two experts have been appointed, who will do the work of improvement. Apart from about 1000 camps organized by the state government, non-governmental organizations are also conducting about 2000 camps annually, in which there are usually 45 to 60 students in a camp.
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