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Bush Camp Educational Themes
Iganyana Bush Camp
EDUCATIONAL THEMES
See Bush Camp Curriculum for more detail about each theme.
- The substances and energy necessary for life move through ecosystems.
- Ecological relationships affect all creatures. Humans are an inseparable part of the web of life and completely dependent on it.
- Each species plays an important role (its niche) in the natural community to which it belongs (its habitat).
- Each species is adapted to successfully exploit its niche.
- Painted hunting dogs and other endangered species usually become threatened due to habitat destruction or unsustainable utilization by people.
- Biodiversity has value to stable ecosystems and human economy.
- Extinction has far reaching effects on ecosystems.
Sustainable populations of each species have a right to exist in healthy habitat. People are obliged to protect endangered species and natural communities, not only for future human survival, but also as intelligent stewards of the biosphere.
Careful observation using all five senses, scientific skills, methods and inventiveness are useful in understanding the environment and solving environmental problems.
Most resources are renewable if managed with the goal of sustainable use.
Degraded environments can be restored by careful management for long-term effect.
Human overpopulation is a leading root cause in environmental degradation. Family planning is crucial to the future health of the biosphere.
Human and environmental health is directly affected by individual actions.
Everyone benefits from a healthy, well-managed environment that is utilized sustainably.
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