Environmental education
Environmental education is a priority activity of CETN and something we are actively involved in at many levels.
Recent environmental education activities include:
- Development of information boards to be erected in the lagoon area. These provide information on Ramsar, the Lesser and Greater Flamingos and the common birds of the Lagoon
- Running an Environmental Knowledge competition for the coastal High and Secondary Schools (since 2001)
- Given lectures on the biodiversity of the lagoon to the Environmental Students of the Polytechnic of Namibia (since 2000)
- Giving lectures to the Windhoek College of Education on the biodiversity of the Walvis Bay Ramsar Site (since 2003)
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Further environmental education activities planned include:
- Having a list made of all the different types of "vegetation" and fauna found in the Kuiseb Delta area and having trails expertly designed
- Conducting tours over the Walvis Bay wetland sites
- Expanding and implementing new educational projects
Requirements for further activities
- We intend to develop an environmental/ecological education centre for this intriguing and ecologically fragile area, for which we will need finance
- Binoculars, at least 25 pairs, for use with school groups. Currently we have 8 pairs
- New or second-hand telescopes (in working order)
- Boards
- Multimedia projector
- CD writer
- CD-RW compact discs
- TV Screen
- Video player
- Environmental/Ecological books, especially on Southern African fauna and flora
- Ecological video tapes including tapes on how to look after the environment, what is meant by sustainable development, etc