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Guatemala teachers' workshop on mangrove ecology (18/05/06)

Hello CEPA list members:

Educators from five countries came together in Tilapa from 18 to 21 April 2006 in a three-day workshop for Guatemala teachers on the importance of mangrove wetlands. Co-sponsored by the international non-profit organization the Mangrove Action Project (MAP), Guatemala's Amigos del Bosque, Colombia's San Andres-based CORALINA, the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (Wetlands for the Future Fund), and New England Biolabs, the workshop attracted more than 20 teachers from across the country and abroad.

The workshop was held in Tilapa, a small island on the southwest Pacific coast of Guatemala. Led by MAP's education director, Martin Keeley, who delivered the workshop together with co-presenter Fanny Howard from Colombia-based CORALINA, teachers spent most of their time learning how to deliver simple and practical hands-on activities to their students which give students a basic understanding of the science behind mangrove ecology. The activities were selected from MAP's Marvellous Mangroves of Guatemala, a 300-page teachers curriculum resource guide developed initially by Mr. Keeley and adapted for use in Guatemala.

Read the full story here http://www.ramsar.org/wff/wff_rpts_guatemala_tilapa2006.htm.

Best wishes, Sandra Hails, Ramsar Secretariat

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Sandra Hails, CEPA Programme Officer
Ramsar Convention Secretariat
Rue Mauverney 28, CH-1196 Gland, Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 999 0176; Fax: +41 22 999 0169
E-mail: hails@ramsar.org
Web Site: http://ramsar.org
CEPA mini-Web site: http://ramsar.org/outreach_index.htm

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